Is this art? French painter, poet, and filmmaker,
Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) thought so. In 1917, he used a urinal to
create Fountain and signed the piece, R. Mutt.
A number of campus departments are planning dialogues to be held over the next several weeks on issues relating to art, society, and censorship.
The first event is a lunch/discussion (with pizza provided) Monday, October 18, titled "Should My Tax Dollars Go for That?: Understanding the Debates around Censorship and the Arts," which is being sponsored by the philosophy department. Professors Tom Wartenberg and Angela Curran will facilitate this discussion, which is open to the entire Mount Holyoke community, at noon in room 217, Skinner Hall.
On October 21, at 4:15 pm, Noel Carroll, one of today's foremost philosophers of art and film, will discuss art and its function within society. Carroll, who is the Monroe C. Beardsley Professor of the Philosophy of Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the author of The Philosophy of Horror, Mystifying Movies, and Philosophical Problems of Classical Film Theory. He has written articles and reviews for such publications as the Village Voice, Art Forum, and the Boston Review, and is a documentary screenwriter. The location for Carroll's lecture is room 210, Skinner Hall.
Julie Van Camp '69, professor of philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, will give a talk titled "Have Artists Won the Battle and Lost the War?: Philosophical Reflections on NEA v. Finley" on Thursday, October 28. Details about this event, and other upcoming arts-related lectures and discussions, will appear in the next issue of CSJ.
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