Università Roma Tre

The course analyzes research and crucial turning points in contemporary art – from impressionism to the historical avant-gardes, up to the practices of the 1960s –, focusing on strategies and linguistic renewals that have challenged the centrality of traditional artistic mediums, with the emergence of new creative methods in which conceptual, procedural, performative instances have imposed a radical redefinition of the work of art. Specifically, attention will be paid to themes such as the politics and poetics of the gaze, the dialectic between the visible and the invisible, the relationship between artistic intervention and environmental context, the dimension of irony as a strategy of intervention and renewal. The analysis of these themes will provide the necessary methodological approach to the study of the languages that characterize contemporary art and the indispensable tools for reading the different typologies of works of art.