20702970 - CONTEMPORARY ART - L.M.

basic knowledge and understanding of the history of contemporary art in its chronological development (19th-20th century); ability to read works of art; ability to communicate the acquired notions orally
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Mutuazione: 20702970 STORIA DELL'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA in DAMS (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo) L-3 (docente da definire)

Programme

The course analyzes historical developments, poetics and crucial junctions of the visual arts of the modernity from impressionism to historical avant-gardes and up to the Sixties, focusing on themes such as the act of seeing, the construction of the modern gaze, the dialectic between the visible and the invisible. The analysis of these issues will also provide the necessary methodological approach to the study of the history of the different languages that characterize contemporary art, providing the critical tools necessary for reading different types of works of art.

Core Documentation

1. General texts

• Federica Rovati, L’arte del primo Novecento, Einaudi, Torino 2015
• Francesco Poli (a cura di), Arte moderna. Dal Postimpressionismo all’Informale, Electa, Milano 2007 (i seguenti saggi: Claudio Zambianchi, Le ricerche postimpressioniste, pp. 10-29; M. Lorandi, Simbolismo, pp. 30-53; Francesco Poli, Informale ed espressionismo astratto, pp. 262-283)
• Francesco Poli (a cura di), Arte contemporanea. Le ricerche internazionali dalla fine degli anni ’50 a oggi, Electa, Milano 2003 (i seguenti saggi: Catherine Grenier, Nuovi realismi e pop art(s), pp. 10-35; Francesco Poli, Ricerche minimaliste e analitiche, pp. 70-95; F. Poli, Arte e ambiente, pp. 96-121; Maddalena Disch, Process art e arte povera, pp. 121-149; Maria Teresa Roberto, Arte concettuale, pp. 150-181).

2. Textbook

• H. Foster, R. Krauss, Y.A. Bois, B.H.D. Buchloh, Arte dal 1900. Modernismo, Antimodernismo, Postmodernismo, anni 1959-69.

3. Essays

• Jonathan Crary, Le tecniche dell’osservatore, Einaudi 2013, IV capitolo, pp. 102-140
• Victor Stoichita, Dello sguardo ostacolato. Per una storia dell’Impressionismo, in “Annali della Fondazione Europea del Disegno”, Il Melangolo, Genova 2009, pp. 65-87; https://www.academia.edu/21227571/126-Dello_sguardo_ostacolato_-_Per_una_storia_dellImpressionismo
• Victor Stoichita, La pittura impressionista vista da e con Schapiro: Caillebotte e l’intreccio visivo, in Meyer Schapiro e i metodi della storia dell’arte, a cura di L. Bortolotti, C. Cieri Via, M.G. Di Monte, M. Di Monte, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano – Udine 2010, pp. 105-113. https://www.academia.edu/21447530/134-La_pittura_impressionista_vista_da_e_con_Schapiro_-_Caillebotte_e_lintreccio_visivo

3. Online collection of images (available at the end of the course).


Type of delivery of the course

Lecture-style classes

Attendance

Attendance is not compulsory

Type of evaluation

The exam consists of a written test carried out in the classroom during each exam session. The exam aims to verify the ability to present and analyze topics, poetics, movements, artists dealt with during the lessons and assessed in the bibliography, as well as to attest the ability to read and interpret works of art, using adequate critical terminology and putting the artworks in relation to their historical context.