The course examines the architecture of the twentieth century, in Europe and in the United States, highlighting the different modernities of the twentieth century: that linked to the avant-gardes but also that formed by the interweaving of relationships between regional traditions and new languages. The reforming policies of housing and urban planning and the importance of the emergence of reinforced concrete will also be analyzed. The course also deals with the crisis of the Modern Movement, to the point of mentioning the frontier themes of the last decade of the century.
teacher profile teaching materials
Each four-hour lesson examines and analyzes a monographic theme originating from current events with references to artistic currents, the historical context, the world of collecting, techniques, aesthetic theories from the twentieth century onwards.
Giulio Carlo Argan, L’arte moderna 1770-1970; Achille Bonito Oliva, L’arte oltre il Duemila,
Sansoni, Firenze 2003
Giuliano Briganti, Carlo Bertelli, Antonio Giuliano, Storia dell'arte italiana. Vol. 4: Dal Romanticismo alle correnti contemporanea, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 1997
Werner Hofmann, I fondamenti dell'arte moderna, Donzelli, Roma 2003
Programme
A trajectory in the history of modern and contemporary art from the avant-garde forward through a choice of images that have meant or mean today, compared to the past, a different stylistic, iconographic or symbolic approach to representation.Each four-hour lesson examines and analyzes a monographic theme originating from current events with references to artistic currents, the historical context, the world of collecting, techniques, aesthetic theories from the twentieth century onwards.
Core Documentation
A reading of your choice between the following texts:Giulio Carlo Argan, L’arte moderna 1770-1970; Achille Bonito Oliva, L’arte oltre il Duemila,
Sansoni, Firenze 2003
Giuliano Briganti, Carlo Bertelli, Antonio Giuliano, Storia dell'arte italiana. Vol. 4: Dal Romanticismo alle correnti contemporanea, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 1997
Werner Hofmann, I fondamenti dell'arte moderna, Donzelli, Roma 2003
Reference Bibliography
A reading of your choice between the following texts: André Breton, Il surrealismo e la pittura, Abscondita, Milano 2018 Georges Bataille, L'esperienza interiore, Adelphi, Milano 2000 Meyer Schapiro, Lo stile, Donzelli, Roma 1995 Paolo Fossati, Storie di figure e di immagini, Einaudi, Torino 1995 Yve-Alain Bois, Rosalind Krauss, L'informe. Istruzioni per l'uso, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2003 Rosalind Krauss, Passaggi : storia della scultura da Rodin alla Land Art, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2000 Suggested but not compulsory reading among the following texts: Lea Vergine, L’arte in trincea. Lessico delle tendenze artistiche 1960-1990, Skira, Milano 1996 Meyer Schapiro, Tra Einstein e Picasso: spazio-tempo, cubismo, futurismo, Marinotti, Milano 2003 Pierre Francastel, Lo spazio figurativo dal Rinascimento al Cubismo, Mimesis, Milano 2005Type of delivery of the course
didactic methods: traditional lesson with the teacher addressing the whole class, use of electronic devices for projection of films and documentaries.Attendance
For 75% of the duration of the courseType of evaluation
platform: ZOOM https://us04web.zoom.us/j/4213421828?pwd=bmY4VW5tZUdPM2hNVGdxS2h2L0VTQT09 personal meeting ID: 4213421828 password: roma3 number of questions: the exam will be conducted in a discursive dialogue starting from a question where the candidate can choose the argument. During the following discussion other questions could follow up to a maximum of three. A general cognition of the history of contemporary art is requested and a knowledge of the texts indicated in the reading list.