00951 - History of Contemporary Art

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

Historical part:

From Romanticism to Symbolism.
Identity and Movements of european art of the Nineteenth-Century

This part of course intends to give an introductory and synthetic vision of the contemporary art focalizing an itinerary that start with the Romanticism and will continue with the Realism, the Pre-Rapahelism, the Impressionism, the Neo-Impressionism, the Symbolism, the Pointillism, the Secession and the Modern Style.

Monographic part:

Declinations and criticism of contemporaneity.
Movements and poetics of the western art of Twentieth Century from the german Expressionism to the Post-modern.

This part of course intends to go through the events of greater importance of twentieth Century's Art from the age of Avant-gardes (Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Abstract art, Dadaism, Surrealism...) until the present post-modern Neoavant-gardes. And in this itinerary, the principal events that characterize the contemporary artistic evolution will be coniugated with the more significative historical facts of the so-called “the Short Century”, that is the twentieth century.

Readings/Bibliography

Bibliographic directions about the matters of the course and the texts to take the examination will be comunicated during the treatment of lessons.

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.

Office hours

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