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B003388 - HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
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Academic Year 2019-20
Coorte 2017 - 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY, FINE ARTS, ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
Course year
Third year - First Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-ART/03 - HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
72
Teaching Term
12/09/2019 ⇒ 13/12/2019
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course will look at the main movements and the most important artists active from the beginning of the Nineteenth century to today, presenting at the same time problems and discussions that have marked the contemporary critical historical debate.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Bibliography (to be tested at the exam):
1. F. Rovati, L’arte dell’Ottocento, Torino, Einaudi, 2017.
2. F. Rovati, L’arte del primo Novecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2015.
3. A. Del Puppo, L’arte contemporanea. Il secondo Novecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2013.
1. F. Rovati, L’arte dell’Ottocento, Torino, Einaudi, 2017.
2. F. Rovati, L’arte del primo Novecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2015.
3. A. Del Puppo, L’arte contemporanea. Il secondo Novecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2013.
Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is to provide students with the necessary tools to understand contemporary art, correctly orienting themselves in a wider cultural and historical panorama.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of medieval and modern art history and contemporary history.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons with the possibility of opening critical discussions.
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Type of Assessment
The exam will be oral and will verify the knowledge of the topics studied during the course and the mandatory books of the first and second module. The recognition and description of the works analyzed during the lessons or published in the suggested books is also requested. A further bibliography will eventually be proposed during the course.
Course program
First module:
- The death of Marat of J.L. David (1793).
- Realism and Naturalism.
- Manet.
- Impressionism.
- Post-Impressionism.
- Primitivism between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Abstract art (Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevič).
- Avant-gardes (Futurism, Cubism, Metaphysics, Dadaism, Surrealism)
Second module:
- Art in Italy between the Twenties and the Forties (from Novecento to the Bergamo Prize)
- Guernica, 1937.
- Art informel
- Abstract Expressionism.
- New Dada.
- Pop Art.
- Minimalism.
- Land Art.
- Arte povera.
- Conceptual Art.
- The Eighties (Transavanguardia).
- The Nineties (Relational Aesthetics, Postproduction, mixed media).
- The 2000s (case studies, from video art to photography).
- The death of Marat of J.L. David (1793).
- Realism and Naturalism.
- Manet.
- Impressionism.
- Post-Impressionism.
- Primitivism between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Abstract art (Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevič).
- Avant-gardes (Futurism, Cubism, Metaphysics, Dadaism, Surrealism)
Second module:
- Art in Italy between the Twenties and the Forties (from Novecento to the Bergamo Prize)
- Guernica, 1937.
- Art informel
- Abstract Expressionism.
- New Dada.
- Pop Art.
- Minimalism.
- Land Art.
- Arte povera.
- Conceptual Art.
- The Eighties (Transavanguardia).
- The Nineties (Relational Aesthetics, Postproduction, mixed media).
- The 2000s (case studies, from video art to photography).