Public Lecture
Keir Lectures on Art:
Keynote speaker Professor Lynne Cooke, Macgeorge Visiting Speaker, The University of Melbourne
Lynne Cooke is Senior Curator, Special Projects in Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. She was formerly Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid (2008-2012) and Curator, Dia Art Foundation, New York. Cooke has published extensively in the fields of contemporary and modern art.
Modernist art history routinely situates the work of self-taught artists, along with that of various other unschooled creators -- so-called "primitives," visionaries, children and the insane -- on the margins, a source and stimulus to the avant-gardes who plundered it at will. In recent years, challenges to that canonical model of a privileged center and dependent periphery have come from many quarters. By examining key intersections between credentialed American artists and their disenfranchised peers over the past century, this lecture will bring into focus key issues facing curators and art professionals working today.
SUPPORTED BY THE MACGEORGE BEQUEST
Image: Joseph Yoakum, Briar Head Mtn,c. 1969, Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington DC