M i d - M a n h a t t a n L i b r a r y
Presents
A slide lecture by John Zinsser
Wednesday July 2, 2008
6:30 p.m. on the 6th floor
The
212-340-0871
Elevators access the 6th floor after 6p.m.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.
Contemporary art and its audience are moving into ever new and challenging territory. Yet painting, as a historically-established medium, always remains central to the dialogue. John Zinsser will provide a larger art historical context to frame the current paradigm shift. He argues that we have entered a time of increased “lexical crisis” as artistic practices collide freely with viewer responses. Modernism, and its attendant painting developments—cubism, expressionism, geometric abstraction, pop and minimalism—have launched a hybrid visual genealogy. And its recombinant qualities have only just begun to be explored. The lecture will move forward from the European model of Picasso and Mondrian to the American response of Pollock and Warhol. Now, we see a 21st Century aesthetic forming from the likes of painters Luc Tuymans, Karen Kilimnik, Anselm Reyle and Wade Guyton. What marks this movement? And where will it take us?
John Zinsser (b.