Lars Blunck

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Lars Blunck (* 1970 in Flensburg ) is a German art historian and professor of art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . He lives in Berlin .

Life

Lars Blunck studied art history, political science and geography as well as cultural management in Hagen in Braunschweig and Kiel . In 2001 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on performative assemblages from the 1950s and 1960s (Between Object & Event. Art of participation between myth and participation. Weimar , 2003). He then initially worked as a trainee at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart , before taking on a scientific assistant at the Department of Art History at the Technical University of Berlin in 2002 . In 2005 he received the Deubner Prize for current art historical research. In 2007 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on Marcel Duchamp (Duchamps Precision Optics . Munich , 2008). This was followed by a five-year visiting professorship there. In 2011 he was a fellow of the Terra Foundation for American Art .

His research focuses primarily on the art and visual history of modernism and the present . He is co-editor (together with Bénédicte Savoy and Avinoam Shalem ) of the series contact zones. Studies in Global Art in de Publisher Walter Gruyter .

Since 2013 he has been Professor of Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg .

Publications (selection)

As an author

As editor

Essays

  • In the network of references. Marcel Duchamps étant donnés . In: Marek, Kristin; Schulz, Martin (Hrsg.): Canon art history. An introduction to art history. Vol. 3. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag , 2016, pp. 381–398
  • "The elevation of the accidental to the essential". Fluxus avant Fluxus / "The Elevation of the Coincidental to the Essential". Fluxus Avant Fluxus. In: Exh. Cat. State Museum Schwerin: The Romantic Revolution . Fluxus Made in USA. March 14th to June 9th 2014 (edited by Gerhard Graulich). Nuremberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2014, pp. 133–152 (German / English)
  • In the realm of the moth kings. In: Exh. Cat. Moyland Castle Museum: The Silence of the Bachelors. February 16 to April 27, 2014 (edited by Bettina Paust). Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2014, pp. 68–70
  • Theory building as practice. On the art-historical significance of the artist's theory. In: Ehninger, Eva; Nieslony, Magdalena (Ed.): Theory2. Potential and potentiation of artistic theory. Bern u. a .: Peter Lang Verlag , 2014, pp. 17–32
  • The point of interview. As an introduction (together with Michael Diers). In: Blunck, Lars; Diers, Michael; Obrist, Hans Ulrich (Ed.): The interview. Forms and forums of artist talk. Hamburg: Philo Fine Arts , 2013, pp. 9–26
  • "The mob is watching". On the art historical source value of the artist talk - since Duchamp. In: Blunck, Lars; Diers, Michael; Obrist, Hans Ulrich (Ed.): The interview. Forms and forums of artist talk. Hamburg: Philo Fine Arts, 2013, pp. 170–194
  • Ad usum. Idea, function and purpose of the artist interview. Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Lars Blunck and Michael Diers. In: Blunck, Lars; Diers, Michael; Obrist, Hans Ulrich (Ed.): The interview. Forms and forums of artist talk. Hamburg: Philo Fine Arts, 2013, pp. 302-325
  • In the middle instead of just in front of it. Participating and watching in contemporary art. In: Exh. Cat. Kunsthalle zu Kiel : From the senses. Perception in Contemporary Art. July 14th to October 21st 2012 (edited by Anette Hüsch). Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag , 2012, pp. 15-20.
  • Drinking beer as the highest art form? To educate the audience in relational art. In: Kammerer, Dietmar (Ed.): Vom Publicum. The public in art. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag , 2012, pp. 13–28
  • Lots of originals. A conversation in the Musée Imaginaire d'Art Moderne about the (in) repeatability of the readymade . In: Exhib.-kat Kunsthalle Karlsruhe : Déjà vu? The art of repetition from Dürer to YouTube. April 21 to August 5, 2012 (edited by Pia Müller-Tamm and Wolfgang Ullrich). Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag 2012, pp. 56–65
  • Playing with reality. Johannes Grützke and the portrait. In: Exhibition cat. Germanisches Nationalmuseum: Johannes Grützke. The retrospective. November 24, 2011 to April 1, 2012 (edited by Birgit Jooss). Nuremberg: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2011, pp. 126–135
  • After the live. Possibilities for the reference of re-staged photography using the example of photographic representations of the dead In: Krüger, Klaus; Craasemann, Leena; Weiß, Matthias (Ed.): Re-Staged Photography . Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2011, pp. 257-277
  • When is an original? In: Nida-Rümelin, Julian ; Steinbrenner, Jacob (Ed.): Art and Philosophy: Original and Fake. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag , 2011, pp. 9–29
  • »Quel est le sens exact de votre terme› Optique de précision ‹?« - thoughts on Marcel Duchamp's precision optics. In: Flach, Sabine; Vöhringer, Margarete (Ed.): Ultravisionen. On the understanding of science of the artistic avant-garde , 1910–1930. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2010, pp. 20–33. Engl. As: "Purely Optical Things"? On Marcel Duchamp's Precision Optics. In: Artibus et Historiae, vol. 31, no. 63, Krakau, summer 2011, pp. 259–274
  • Against the artistic tartifery . Duchamp's nihilism of truthfulness and Cézanne's truthfulness. In: Muhr, Stefanie; Windorf, Wiebke (Ed.): Truth and Truthfulness: In Art from the Early Modern Age to Today. Vienna and Weimar: Reimer Verlag, 2009, pp. 113–124
  • "... otherwise you are just a sucker". Action and event in Fluxus art / “… Otherwise You Are a Spectator Only”. Action and Event in Fluxus Art. In: Exh. Cat. New Museum Nuremberg : Who Killed the Painting. Works from the Block Collection in the New Museum in Nuremberg. October 31, 2008 to January 25, 2009 (edited by Angelika Nollert). Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2008, pp. 60–73
  • "Hold your breath and think of Spinoza ". On questions of audience participation in contemporary art. In: Blunck, Lars (Ed.): Works in Transition? - Contemporary art between work and effect. Munich: Verlag Silke Schreiber , 2005, pp. 87-105. Zugl. in: Kunsthistorische Arbeitsblätter , Heft 4/5, Cologne, August 2005, pp. 75–86

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SURNAME Blunck, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg