An Aesthetic Approach to Ethical Responsibility

Book Presentation

The book’s author, Monika Leisch-Kiesl, develops an exciting discourse between ethics and aesthetics. She places the work of a contemporary artist (Irena Lagator Pejović) in intertextual dialogue with a work of early Renaissance book art (Christine de Pizan). Both of these authors focus on female city-building. These topics are being explored in a discussion between the author and the artist and also including Elke Krasny, who brings into play the feminist concept of care-ethics and raises the question of artistic response-ability in the 21st century.

Elke Krasny, feminist cultural theorist, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Irena Lagator Pejovic, visual artist, University of Donja Gorica, Podgorica, Montenegro
Monika Leisch-Kiesl, art historian, KU Linz
Moderation: Jula Allerstorfer-Hertel, art historian, KU Linz

Monika Leisch-Kiesl, Two Cities: An Aesthetic Approach to Ethical Responsibility. A comparative study of selected works by Irena Lagator Pejović and Christine de Pizan, Verlag für Moderne Kunst: Wien 2024

An event by the Faculty of Philosophy and of Art History, KU Linz.