Details

What is a 'favourite'? What does it mean to have a favourite artwork? Is it a piece that has inspired us; one we would wish to hang in our homes; or an expression of artistic skills that we admire? In this lecture, acclaimed art theorist and philosopher Boris Groys examines the criteria with which we judge art. He is currently Professor for Philosophy and Media Theory at the School for New Media in Karlsruhe, and Vice Chancellor of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Influential texts by Groys include: Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin, 1988; About the New, 1992; The Logic of Collecting, 1997.