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Timing Painting, Revising History. A Lecture by David Joselit

Timing Painting, Revising History. A Lecture by David Joselit during the Lecture cycle organized by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and Moscow Art Magazine (Khudoshestvenny Zhurnal). The first public lecture in Russia by one of the authors of Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism. In modern and contemporary art, the gauge of political efficacy has tended toward claims for the revolutionary power of art (early in the twentieth century) and its capacity to critique the status quo (ever since). Considering both modern and contemporary works of art, ranging from Duchamp to the African American Robert Colescott, this lecture will argue that painting’s triple articulation of timing—the time involved in discharging a mark, the way that each painting enters into the medium’s long history, and the registration in painting of a passage from one figure to another—represents a kind of politics that is engaged with history and how it is recounted, as opposed to dominant notions of critique and subversion. In short, “Timing Painting, Revising History” will propose that the act of painting—its form and its capacity to bring together different temporalities in myriad formations—equips it to invent new non-Eurocentric narratives. Art’s politics, then, would lie in its capacity to mold new models of imagining and perceiving history. David Joselit began his career as a curator at the ICA in Boston from 1983 to 1989. After receiving his PhD from Harvard in 1995, he has taught at the University of California, Irvine, and Yale University where he was Department Chair from 2006 to 2009, and most recently at the CUNY Graduate Center. He will join the department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard in January 2020. Joselit is author of Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941 (MIT, 1998), American Art Since 1945 (Thames and Hudson, 2003), Feedback: Television Against Democracy (MIT, 2007), and After Art (Princeton University Press, 2012). He co-organized the exhibition, Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, which opened at the Brandhorst Museum in Munich in 2015. Joselit is an editor of the journal OCTOBER and writes regularly on contemporary art and culture. His most recent book is Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization (forthcoming as an October Book from MIT Press in Spring 2020).