29012 - Phenomenology of Contemporary Art (1) (2nd cycle)

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Docente: Silvia Grandi
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: L-ART/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 9220)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Visual Arts (cod. 9071)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will develop the theoretical-methodological and historical-critical tools to understand contemporary art forms from the early 20th Century to the multimedia formulations of the last decades. More specifically, with the critical awareness acquired, students will possess the necessary skills to deal with the study of the evolution of artistic movements and the resulting changes of languages, while keeping in consideration the changes of techniques and artistic practices; they will be able to carry out documentary and bibliographic researches in traditional and digital repertories, and to produce original texts for research or popularizing purposes.

Course contents

The exam for Contemporary art B consists of two courses:

Phenomenology of Contemporary Art (prof. Silvia Grandi) and Art in Europe between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (prof. Giuseppe Virelli.

Contemporary Art is an integrated exam of 12 CFU (6 CFU+6 CFU) and the evaluation of the preparation follows the procedures laid down for integrated exams, i.e. they must be taken in the same session and students must then register simultaneously for both exams.

This course will be held in the first semester for LM students in CdS Visual arts and Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Language Sciences.

The course takes place in the first semester for the Master's Degrees in Visual and Italian Arts, European Literary Cultures, Linguistic Sciences. The course deals with the period ranging from the historical avant-garde of Dadaism in the second decade of the twentieth century to the latest art trends of the first decade of the current century, offering a historical-critical framework of the main artistic researches developed at international level. The succession of movements constitutes the starting point for a reflection on the modifications of styles, techniques and artistic practices up to the encroachment into the immateriality of contemporary trends.


 

Readings/Bibliography

The program is the same for all, attending and non-attending students

BARILLI, Renato, L’arte contemporanea. Da Cézanne alle ultime tendenze, Feltrinelli, Milano, edition 2005 or later, chapters 10-15, pp. 187-393.

POLI, Francesco, (a cura di), Arte contemporanea. Le ricerche internazionali dalla fine degli anni ’50 a oggi, Electa, Milano, edition 2013 or later.

Teaching methods

Due to the restrictions imposed by the current health emergency, this teaching activity will be carried out in the Traditional method. The teacher will always be present personally in the indicated classroom during this teaching activity. The students will alternate their presence, according to a schedule of shifts being defined (more detailed information regarding the shifts and about the modalities to get access to the classroom lessons will be provided soon). It will always be possible to connect remotely and to follow live lessons via the online platform TEAMS.

Lectures accompanied by various audio-visual media, essential to understanding the methodology applied to the course. There will be several meetings (which students are expected to attend) with some of the authors of the books in bibliography and/or with experts from the various fields related to the course. Excursions to exhibitions related to the topics discussed in the lessons are not excluded.

Assessment methods

The exam consists of an oral interview that will be the same for all students (attending and non attending) to evaluate the critical and methodological abilities acquired by the students, and it will be based on the recommended bibliography. Students are expected to demonstrate the acquisition and possession of the fundamentals of the discipline and the methodological approach adopted, including the recognition of images of art works. In this regard, they are invited particularly to focus on the iconographic documentation that accompanies the exam texts and the teacher's educational material on Platform for teaching support service.

Evaluation criteria for the interview:

1. It will be graded as excellent the performance of those students demonstrating to be able to thoroughly analyse the texts and to put them into an organic view of the topics discussed during the course. The proper use of the specific language during the examination will be also essential.

2. It will be graded as satisfactory the performance of those students with mostly mnemonic knowledge, no in-depth analysis capabilities and a correct, but not always appropriate, language of the recommended texts.

3. It will be graded as barely sufficient the performance of those students with approximate knowledge, superficial understanding, poor analytical capabilities and a not always appropriate language.

4. It will be graded as insufficient the performance of those students with learning gaps, inappropriate language, no orientation within the recommended bibliography.

Teaching tools

Various audiovisual aids (audio files, image projections and digital movies). Through the platform “virtuale.unibo.it”, students will be provided with images and lecture-based presentations and other educational materials.

 

 

Links to further information

http://corsi.unibo.it/Magistrale/artivisive/Pagine/default.aspx

Office hours

See the website of Silvia Grandi

SDGs

Quality education Gender equality Industry, innovation and infrastructure Partnerships for the goals

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.