Contemporary Art
(objectives)
The course provides the critical methodologies and basic historical skills essential to the study of the artistic languages of modernity. The class and lectures selected for the exam program will retrace the main events of contemporary visual arts, in order to propose a methodology for the analysis of poetics, movements and different languages characterising contemporary art, and so to provide the necessary tools for reading and interpret the different types of contemporary works of art.
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Code
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20702970 |
Language
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ITA |
Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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6
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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L-ART/03
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Contact Hours
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36
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Type of Activity
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Core compulsory activities
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Group: A - L
Teacher
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CHIODI STEFANO
(syllabus)
The course analyzes historical developments, poetics and crucial junctions of the visual arts of the modernity from impressionism to historical avant-gardes and up to the Sixties, focusing on themes such as the act of seeing, the construction of the modern gaze, the dialectic between the visible and the invisible. The analysis of these issues will also provide the necessary methodological approach to the study of the history of the different languages that characterize contemporary art, providing the critical tools necessary for reading different types of works of art.
(reference books)
1. General texts
• Federica Rovati, L’arte del primo Novecento, Einaudi, Torino 2015 • Francesco Poli (a cura di), Arte moderna. Dal Postimpressionismo all’Informale, Electa, Milano 2007 (i seguenti saggi: Claudio Zambianchi, Le ricerche postimpressioniste, pp. 10-29; M. Lorandi, Simbolismo, pp. 30-53; Francesco Poli, Informale ed espressionismo astratto, pp. 262-283) • Francesco Poli (a cura di), Arte contemporanea. Le ricerche internazionali dalla fine degli anni ’50 a oggi, Electa, Milano 2003 (i seguenti saggi: Catherine Grenier, Nuovi realismi e pop art(s), pp. 10-35; Francesco Poli, Ricerche minimaliste e analitiche, pp. 70-95; F. Poli, Arte e ambiente, pp. 96-121; Maddalena Disch, Process art e arte povera, pp. 121-149; Maria Teresa Roberto, Arte concettuale, pp. 150-181).
2. Textbook
• H. Foster, R. Krauss, Y.A. Bois, B.H.D. Buchloh, Arte dal 1900. Modernismo, Antimodernismo, Postmodernismo, anni 1959-69.
3. Essays
• Jonathan Crary, Le tecniche dell’osservatore, Einaudi 2013, IV capitolo, pp. 102-140 • Victor Stoichita, Dello sguardo ostacolato. Per una storia dell’Impressionismo, in “Annali della Fondazione Europea del Disegno”, Il Melangolo, Genova 2009, pp. 65-87; https://www.academia.edu/21227571/126-Dello_sguardo_ostacolato_-_Per_una_storia_dellImpressionismo • Victor Stoichita, La pittura impressionista vista da e con Schapiro: Caillebotte e l’intreccio visivo, in Meyer Schapiro e i metodi della storia dell’arte, a cura di L. Bortolotti, C. Cieri Via, M.G. Di Monte, M. Di Monte, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano – Udine 2010, pp. 105-113. https://www.academia.edu/21447530/134-La_pittura_impressionista_vista_da_e_con_Schapiro_-_Caillebotte_e_lintreccio_visivo
3. Online collection of images (available at the end of the course).
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From to |
Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Written test
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Group: M - Z
Teacher
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CONTE LARA
(syllabus)
Poetics and politics of the gaze
Course content The course analyzes poetics and crucial junctions of the visual arts in the modern era – from Impressionism to the historical avant-gardes, until the 1960s – focusing on themes like the act of seeing, the device of the gaze, the dialectic between the visible and the invisible. The analysis also provides the necessary methodological approach to the study of the history of the various languages of contemporary art, furnishing indispensable tools for the interpretation of different types of artworks.
(reference books)
Texts of a general character:
- F. Rovati, L’arte del primo Novecento, Einaudi, Torino 2015
- F. Poli (a cura di), Arte moderna. Dal Postimpressionismo all’Informale, Electa, Milano 2007 (i seguenti saggi: C. Zambianchi, Le ricerche postimpressioniste, pp. 10-29; M. Lorandi, Simbolismo, pp. 30-53; F. Poli, Informale ed espressionismo astratto, pp. 262-283)
- F. Poli (a cura di), Arte contemporanea. Le ricerche internazionali dalla fine degli anni ’50 a oggi, Electa, Milano 2003 (i seguenti saggi: C. Grenier, Nuovi realismi e pop art(s), pp. 10-35; F. Poli, Ricerche minimaliste e analitiche, pp. 70-95; F. Poli, Arte e ambiente, pp. 96-121; M. Disch, Process art e arte povera, pp. 121-149; M. T. Roberto, Arte concettuale, pp. 150-181).
2. In-depth readings
- J. Crary, Techniques of the Observer. On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth, The MIT Press, Massachusetts 1990, IV, pp. 97-137
- V. I. Stoichita, Dello sguardo ostacolato. Per una storia dell’Impressionismo, in “Annali della Fondazione Europea del Disegno”, Il Melangolo, Genova 2009, pp. 65-87
- V. I. Stoichita, La pittura impressionista vista da e con Schapiro: Caillebotte e l’intreccio visivo, in Meyer Schapiro e i metodi della storia dell’arte, a cura di L. Bortolotti, C. Cieri Via, M. G. Di Monte, M. Di Monte, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano – Udine 2010, pp. 105-113.
3. Online gathering of images projected during lectures (available at the end of the course).
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From to |
Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Written test
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