The course analyses how and to what extent the artistic and cultural institutions contribute, on the one hand, to produce the careers of artworks and artists, and, on the other hand, to shape the processes of consumption. It aims at providing theoretical and empirical tools to better understand the artistic processes and the social dynamics that make them possible
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The first part of the course will aim at studying artistic production and politics of cultural consumption. It will focus on the following topics: theories of the "author's death", theories of reception, art as social practice, the institutional definitions of artistic value, cases of " non-recognition " and plagiarism, politics of genius, canonization and practices of social exclusion, theories of cultural capital, relationship between art and advertising, the role of social media in the production of artistic reputations and in relation to the "arts worlds", artistic intermediation processes and their social effects.
The second part will concern art institutions. It will address the following topics: "artivism", art and the public sphere, cancel culture, monuments in the urban space, art as memory technology, cultural consumption of the past and the role of the arts in shaping the public memory of very contested pasts, sociology of museums and politics of museum exhibition, representation of ethnic identities in museums, museums as technology of gender, multimedia arts.
2) Anna Lisa Tota, and Trever Hagen (2016), Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies, (eds.), Routledge, London chapters n. 1, 2, 6, 19, 30, and 31.
Mutuazione: 20710694 SOCIOLOGIA DELL'ARTE in Cinema, televisione e produzione multimediale LM-65 R TOTA ANNA LISA
Programme
In contemporary societies the arts affect the public discourse, becoming agency of social transformation and contributing to the creation of new cultural meanings, laboratory for the civil society, space and place for shaping the collective and public memories of controversial events, arenas where gender identities, ethnicity and social classes are socially constructed.The first part of the course will aim at studying artistic production and politics of cultural consumption. It will focus on the following topics: theories of the "author's death", theories of reception, art as social practice, the institutional definitions of artistic value, cases of " non-recognition " and plagiarism, politics of genius, canonization and practices of social exclusion, theories of cultural capital, relationship between art and advertising, the role of social media in the production of artistic reputations and in relation to the "arts worlds", artistic intermediation processes and their social effects.
The second part will concern art institutions. It will address the following topics: "artivism", art and the public sphere, cancel culture, monuments in the urban space, art as memory technology, cultural consumption of the past and the role of the arts in shaping the public memory of very contested pasts, sociology of museums and politics of museum exhibition, representation of ethnic identities in museums, museums as technology of gender, multimedia arts.
Core Documentation
1) Vera L. Zolberg, (2011) Constructing a Sociology of the Arts, Cambridge University Press, New York.2) Anna Lisa Tota, and Trever Hagen (2016), Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies, (eds.), Routledge, London chapters n. 1, 2, 6, 19, 30, and 31.
Type of delivery of the course
The course will be based on: 1) traditional teaching; 2) a workshop that will consist of an ethnographical observation in a museum located in Rome.Attendance
Attendance is strongly recommended, especially for the museum ethnography laboratory.Type of evaluation
The exam will be written and it will last two hours. The students will be asked to reply extensively to three questions. Moreover, the students will have the possibility (but this additional part is not mandatory) to take part during the course to a Workshop on "Museum Ethnography" that will consist of: 1) an ethnographical observation in two different museums located in Rome; 2) the comparative analysis of both exhibitions and 3) the presentation of the obtained results during the class through a powerpoint presentation realized by the students in groups. This additional workshop will be evaluated with a mark that will be summed to the mark obtained in the written exam.