THE DR. ALLEN W. ROOT CONTEMPORARY ART DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP Richard Meyer, Associate Professor, Art History and Fine Arts Director, The Contemporary Project University of Southern California Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as though it were a radically new phenomenon unmoored from history. Yet all works of art were once contemporary to the artist and culture that produced them. Here Richard Meyer reclaims the contemporary from historical amnesia, exploring episodes in the study, exhibition, and reception of early-twentieth-century art and visual culture.

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1. Awesome!.
2. I think the essence of this lecture is really just about Professor Meyer trying to bring out his two definitions of what "contemporary arts" can refer to. But he was not even whispering about the Plexiglass exhibition in terms of its sensitive historical significance of the event happening in 1939 to bring out the sense of the "seven" way of being eternal - which is really an old metaphysical question rather divisive in nature because there are two discourses concerned - the assorted building blocks and the building blocks represented in their totality by a diamond, or more commonly, a pattern of diamonds - in the two methods of assemblage. The diamond is understood to represent the everlasting nature with higher level of convergence of the building blocks of identical shape. Nor did the professor explain about the futuristic outlook of the works with wood and plaster pieces being connected by a wire to be formed into a loop of connectivity, and another artwork sporting one four-sided square slab garnished with another placed into a diamond-shaped position. These are pretty obvious messages to send out. However, I think the lecturer really brings out the essence of his main contention in the piece-de-resistance, namely his two perceptive definitions of the arts being "contemporary." His sensitivity begins to shine through with his elaborate remarks on an 18th century English literary classic on the British society to illustrate the more contemporaneous nature, the more historically significant, in order to highlight the far-reaching ramifications of the anglophonic developments in the British Isles radiating to project an enduring cultural endeavour that permeates many artworks that he wanted to emphasise in terms of withstanding, with greater fortitude and resilience, the painful season during the cyclical operation of Time. And thus he also explains how the past, present and future could sometimes be interwoven and crisscross the textual or iconographic aspect of an artwork from critical theory's point of view that when the artwork is studied more closely, one could discover the past as much as the present or the future.
3. Contemporary art is the art of today, produced by artists who are living in the twenty-first century. Contemporary art provides an opportunity to reflects the issues relevant to ourselves, and the world around us. Today's artists work in a global environment that is culturally diverse, technologically advance and multifaceted. Their are many online art galleries to know more about contemporary art such as Indian Art Ideas, Sanchit Art and many more.
4. 3 min in and the content hasn't been begun yet.
5. Addressing "contemporary" Art. As a visual Art student and prospector my entire life span thus far; First of all Art does not recognize time, in real time :-)....... twenty million years is not really a long time for Art. contemporary in the seance of the work its self excluding the time period is one thing and contemporary in the seance of what or who is hot on the capitalist Art market is another thing. I mean in real time 100 years ago in Art is not even a factor or issue in this area
6. It might be a good thing for the "Art Market" to collapse? Perhaps that will bring Art closer to "Art For Arts Sake"? In "the end", Art trumps capitalism. When all the money is gone I'll still paint or draw a picture :-)
7. meyers' book on this subject is so, so good. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the subject.
8. this is a great speaker - but I cannot believe that no-one dealt with the microphone issue through the whole lecture - my ears hurt - the guy who does the intro obviously did the sound check - but no one stopped to help the guest - what an insult to dr, meyer.