00951 - History of Contemporary Art

Academic Year 2007/2008

  • Docente: Alfredo De Paz
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: L-ART/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0078)

Learning outcomes

The principal aim of the course is to give basical, theorical and storical instruments whithin of the contemporary art. Also the seminary will give hermeneutical instruments to let students understanding hystorical and sociological contest where works of art and artistic movements born, even thanks to their psycology and culture attitude.

Course contents

The course will broach the main moviments of contemporary art. From Expressionism to Postmodern. But side by side this historical route, will emerge a theoretical care lay no marginal requirement, do not forget a critical dimension both creative (artistical) level and interpretative (of art criticism) level.

Readings/Bibliography


Teaching methods

The course consist of pratical and theorical field training in identifying artistic materials of contemporary art and linguistical-structural, historical-sociological and psychoanalitical analysis.

Assessment methods

The students are invited to attend the seminary and they will be expected to demonstrate competence with writing text and illustrate a personal point of view about the themes object of the course.

Teaching tools

Slides, videoprojector, paper material, background music for the art images.

Links to further information

http:// http://www2.unibo.it/artivisive/files/programmi.htm

Office hours

See the website of Alfredo De Paz