Helen Molesworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Molesworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Molesworth |
| SIGNATURE | MOLESWORTH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | HELEN MOLESWORTH is the Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
From Dada to Neo-Dada and Back Again
Several years ago, went to a John Heartfield exhibition with a non-art historian friend. He walked around for about fifteen minutes and then said I get this, it's like punk. This understanding of Dada as similar to a contemporary phenomenon made implicit sense to me; for Dada, as an art historical movement or entity, is often clearest in my mind in the guise of Neo-Dada. Even by the time of William Rubin's famous 1968 exhibition on Dada and Surre…
House Work and Art Work
The much-noted eclecticism of 1990s art practice appears to have been countered only by a steady fascination with and revival of art from the 1970s. This interest, shared by artists, critics, historians, and curators, generated numerous exhibitions and publications dedicated to the feminist work of the period.1 That such interest in 1970s feminist practice is long overdue perhaps goes without saying, although for many it has emerged as either a m…
Stops and Starts
We all have our favorite photographs, or anecdotes, or art objects, even, that act as talismans, or as decoder rings in the games of interpretation. So, if Hal Foster's An Art of Missing Parts begins with a favorite image of Robert Gober's gnomic head peering over a truncated leg, mine is a photograph of a different corner in the artist's studio. It is a fairly banal image: a set of sinks or troughs are hung on the wall, and a broom or mop stands…
Visual Culture Questionnaire
1. It has been suggested that the interdisciplinary project of is no longer organized on the model of (as were the disciplines of art history, architectural history, film history, etc.) but on the model of anthropology. Hence, it is argued by some that visual culture is in an eccentric (even, at times, antagonistic) position with regard to the new art history with its social-historical and semiotic imperatives and models of context and text
Visual Culture Questionnaire
1. It has been suggested that the interdisciplinary project of is no longer organized on the model of (as were the disciplines of art history, architectural history, film history, etc.) but on the model of anthropology. Hence, it is argued by some that visual culture is in an eccentric (even, at times, antagonistic) position with regard to the new art history with its social-historical and semiotic imperatives and models of context and text
House Work and Art Work
The much-noted eclecticism of 1990s art practice appears to have been countered only by a steady fascination with and revival of art from the 1970s. This interest, shared by artists, critics, historians, and curators, generated numerous exhibitions and publications dedicated to the feminist work of the period.1 That such interest in 1970s feminist practice is long overdue perhaps goes without saying, although for many it has emerged as either a m…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Visual Culture Questionnaire
1. It has been suggested that the interdisciplinary project of is no longer organized on the model of (as were the disciplines of art history, architectural history, film history, etc.) but on the model of anthropology. Hence, it is argued by some that visual culture is in an eccentric (even, at times, antagonistic) position with regard to the new art history with its social-historical and semiotic imperatives and models of context and text
House Work and Art Work
The much-noted eclecticism of 1990s art practice appears to have been countered only by a steady fascination with and revival of art from the 1970s. This interest, shared by artists, critics, historians, and curators, generated numerous exhibitions and publications dedicated to the feminist work of the period.1 That such interest in 1970s feminist practice is long overdue perhaps goes without saying, although for many it has emerged as either a m…
Stops and Starts
We all have our favorite photographs, or anecdotes, or art objects, even, that act as talismans, or as decoder rings in the games of interpretation. So, if Hal Foster's An Art of Missing Parts begins with a favorite image of Robert Gober's gnomic head peering over a truncated leg, mine is a photograph of a different corner in the artist's studio. It is a fairly banal image: a set of sinks or troughs are hung on the wall, and a broom or mop stands…
From Dada to Neo-Dada and Back Again
Several years ago, went to a John Heartfield exhibition with a non-art historian friend. He walked around for about fifteen minutes and then said I get this, it's like punk. This understanding of Dada as similar to a contemporary phenomenon made implicit sense to me; for Dada, as an art historical movement or entity, is often clearest in my mind in the guise of Neo-Dada. Even by the time of William Rubin's famous 1968 exhibition on Dada and Surre…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Art (4 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (3 works) · Art, Technology, and Culture (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Actor–network theory (1 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · Architectural engineering (1 works) · Art history (1 works)