The Therapeutic Hour: Art and Art History Explained
Fringe Show offers the Lowdown on High Art!
Seminal Art History text translated into rhyming verse!
Metonymic contiguities made plain!
In the ten years since The Art of Art History: a Critical Anthology, edited by Donald Preziosi was published by the Oxford University Press in 1998, it has become the principal text for
the study of Art History methodology. It has been translated into all the main European languages and the Chinese
language version is due to be published in 2009. The Therapeutic Hour: Art and Art History Explained is a public service lecture that will entertain, educate, inform and enlighten. Witty, erudite and deeply ironic, it
renders the dense and often obtuse language of methodology, transparent and more readily accessible. Audience members
will not only be able to explain why they like a particular work of art, but they will better understand art they do not
like. The (admittedly lofty) aims of this seminar are to provide the audience with the language to explain their dislike
and the contextual basis for their particular loathing. The myths of methodology are exploded; there could be fireworks!
The performance is in the form of an illustrated lecture approximately fifty minutes long (the therapeutic hour).
Attendees will receive a slide list with references and suggestions for further reading. There will be a short quiz.
About the Writer/Performer:
Kristelle Plimmer completed her Masters Degree, with Distinction, at the end of 2007. She has a long history of writing
rhyming verse, having spent most of the 1980s writing and delivering Singing Telegrams. The gorilla retired in 1990 and
Kristelle retrained as an artist and Art Historian. Her first Fringe Show was in 2008. Art From Go to Whoa and Other Stories……… was described by Matt Suddain in the Sunday Star Times Magazine as “one of the finds of the Fringe”!
Venue: Hugh McKenzie LT001, Victoria University, Kelburn Parade
Dates: February 12, 13, 14 @ 6.30pm Matinee February 14 @ 2.00pm
Entry: koha
Duration: fifty minutes (the Therapeutic Hour)
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