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The Laboring of Art

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Art History Seminar: The Laboring of Art: The Rise of Socialist Amateur Art Practice and the Arrival of the Contemporary in the People's Republic of China Date: 14 December 2020 [...]

“On the Museum’s Ruins” An introduction to Douglas Crimp (1944 – 2019)

CPD-2.16 CPD 2.16 (Run Run Shaw Tower), Centennial Campus, HKU

On the occasion of this year’s translation to Chinese of Douglas Crimp’s seminal book On The Museum’s Ruins (1993), the Department of Art History offers an introductory course the discursive field of Douglas Crimp (1944-2019), the art historian, critic, curator and AIDS activist, who generated some of the most enduring, foundational texts on postmodern art, queer theory, and institutional critique.