20709722 - Theatre and dance iconography

The course aims to study the lines of convergence between visual arts and documentary images as a representational ground for the performing arts, by focusing on factual episodes of the dialogue between photography and dance.
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Mutuazione: 20709722 ICONOGRAFIA DEL TEATRO E DELLA DANZA in DAMS (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo) L-3 R GUARINO RAIMONDO

Programme

Bodies/Media: Techniques and Visions.
The course deals with groundbreaking texts (Benjamin, Warburg) and meaningful case studies (about foto,film and dance), introducing the students to the cultural interpretation of thr interplay between the cultures of physical action and the production of images.

Core Documentation

Walter Benjamin, L'opera d'arte nell'epoc della sua riproducibilità tecnica, a c. di F. Desideri, Feltrinelli. ANY EDITION OF The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
Samantha Marenzi, Immagini di danza. fotografia e arte del movimento nel primo Novecento, Editoria e Spettacolo.
Aby Warburg, Botticelli, Abscondita.
La scena dell'immagine, a c. di S.Geraci, R. Guarino, S. Marenzi, Officina edizioni (download in pdf)

Attendance

Attendnce allowed in presence and on line

Type of evaluation

The oral exam is a discussion about texts and documents commented in the course. Exame grades in 30