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The Value of Didactic Art
This week, executive editor Lloyd Wise looks back at April 1967’s “The Value of Didactic Art,” one of the many benchmark essays written for
Artforum in its early years by the critic, curator, and art historian Barbara Rose (1936–2020). Rose is celebrated and remembered by her friend and colleague Margit Rowell in our April issue.
To read Barbara Rose is to partake in her “immense excitement and pleasure,” writes Rowell. Nowhere is this in better evidence than in Rose’s 1967 essay “The Value of Didactic Art,” in which the critic unspools, with wit and meticulously reasoned brilliance, a nascent category of art she defines as “illustrations of theoretical esthetic positions condensed into a single object.” Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, especially Andy Warhol: In such figures, Rose finds qualities of “argumentation” and “dialogue” that, while betraying formalist criticism’s obsolescence, light up novel
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An online festival of Georgian writers from the Caucasus, with food and song, inspired by the café culture of the first democratic republic of 1918-21
This is an online festival. Booking is required for each session, and ticket holders will be sent links by email.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 25 February 18.00 – 19.10
Festival Launch featuring Katie Melua plus From the Blue Horn Poets to the Red Century: Nino Haratischvili in conversation with Maya Jaggi.
Thursday 25 February 19.20 – 20.40
Liberty’s Feast and Hangover: with Dato Turashvili and Aka Morchiladze
Saturday 27 February 14.00 – 14.45
In the Tbilisi Cafe Kitchen: with Luka Nachkebia
Saturday 27 February 15.15 – 16.35
Medea’s Daughters: Georgia’s pioneering women in the arts. With Nana Ekvtimishvili and Tamta Melashvili