Università Roma Tre

Contemporary Art - Laurea Triennale - L/ART 03
Prof. Stefano Chiodi

Course 2011-12
Crisis and transformation of the medium

In the second half of the Twentieth Century, artistic movements definitively dismantled the notion of the “specificity” of various media (painting, sculpture etc.), which had been one of the pilasters of the modernist esthetic. From new dada to pop art, from Fluxus to the movements born in the second half of the 1960s, distinctions between expressive means, techniques and languages were torn down and replaced by a creative practice in which conceptual, procedural and performative dictates imposed a radical redefinition of the work of art and its theoretical and concrete characteristics. This course deals with key moments in this process over the thirty-year period of the 1950s to the 1980s through close examination of key works, exhibitions and figures from the period and readings of critical essays on the subject.