Mondays 3 November – 8 December
18.30-20.00
Terms of Engagement
Led by Sophie Howarth, curator at Tate Modern

Marcel Duchamp Fountain  1917 replica 1964 © Succession Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002

How do we know how to engage with modern and contemporary artworks that break with aesthetic traditions? Are we dependent on the way in which they are presented to us by curators, critics or theorists, or is there a way in which works of art establish their own terms of engagement?

This course will consider how different works of art seem to demand different modes of attention. It will examine the relationship between art objects and the institutions that interpret them. Particular emphasis will be placed on the tensions that often exist between works of art and museums, as well as the efforts by artists, curators and critics to exacerbate or overcome these.

Most sessions take place in the gallery spaces at Tate Modern. Participants may be asked to do a small amount of reading between weeks.

Tate Modern Seminar Room, Level 2 and Collection Displays
£60 (£40 concessions) includes drinks afterwards

For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888

 
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