The course deals with the analysis of images. It refers specifically to the social factors intervening in the construction of their meanings. The first part of the course will provide analytical and methodological tolls to the students in order to analyse the images and, more specifically, the photos. The second part of the course will focus on the social and public use of images, especially in relation to photos of controversial pasts (wars, natural disasters, violence, terroristic attacks).
teacher profile teaching materials
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: art and the public sphere, monuments in the urban space, art as memory technology, cultural consumption of the past and the role of the cinema 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, Lia Luchetti e Trever Hagen (2018) (a cura di) Sociologie della memoria. Verso un’ecologia del passato, Carocci, Roma.
Mutuazione: 20710694 SOCIOLOGIA DELL'ARTE in Cinema, televisione e produzione multimediale LM-65 TOTA ANNA LISA
Programme
In contemporary societies the arts affect the public discourse, becoming agency of social and 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: art and the public sphere, monuments in the urban space, art as memory technology, cultural consumption of the past and the role of the cinema 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) Anna Lisa Tota e Antonietta De Feo (2019), Sociologia delle arti. Musei, memoria e performance digitali, Carocci, Roma.2) Anna Lisa Tota, Lia Luchetti e Trever Hagen (2018) (a cura di) Sociologie della memoria. Verso un’ecologia del passato, Carocci, Roma.
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.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 that will consist of: 1) an ethnographical observation in a museum located in Rome and 2) the presentation of the obtained results during the class through a powerpoint presentation realized by the students in groups. This additional work will be evaluated with a mark that will be summed to the mark obtained in the written exam.