HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
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- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- ADA PATRIZIA FIORILLO
- Credits
- 12
- Curriculum
- Comunicazione della cultura e delle arti
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ART/03
Training objectives
- The course intends to offer a complete overview of the artistic events of the 20th and 21st centuries, according to a double objective:
1) Knowledge, in relation to the historical and critical context, of the principal national and international artistic researches, in order to provide a basic knowledge of the discipline to the students.
2) Ability to critically interpret questions concerning the periods, topics, tendencies and experiences of individual artists, placing them within the cultural system of their time. Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- UNIT I (6cfu)
Situations and developments in contemporary art
The lessons will consider, within an international perspective, the developments of the artistic events originated in the early 20th century until to the 21st century. These are specified in relation to the need to provide a methodological contribution to the study of contemporary art, taking into consideration the experiences, personalities, the “time” of contemporary. Therefore, this historical and critical profile, basing on innovations of Impressionism, produced at the end of 19th century, will follow the line regarding the avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century and that of the neo-avant-garde in the second half of it. Going to the beginning of the 21st century, it will be considered the present situation, together with its various forms of language, particularly examining the use of new materials and the contributions of digital technologies, that have taken a significant role in the practice of art.
UNIT II (6cfu)
The body of the form
This part of the course is dedicated to a specific language of research, that is of the contemporary sculpture. The monographic context intends to examine the aspects and the dynamics of the sculpture produced during the 20th century. Starting from the question of what it can be defined sculpture, as, during the brief century, the experiences have ruined its consolidate and permanent statute, the lessons intend to approach some aspects that influenced the development of various researches in the plastic area. They examine the notion of time, that represents the source of themes and figures regarding the sculpture produced during the 20th century, such as the experience of the form in relation to the centrally sculptural body and also to its dissolution; the role of design for sculptors, who consider it as a creative and planning moment.
In order to answer the question What is the sculpture today? , it will emphasize all the present experiences, showing their differences and discontinuities. Didactic methods
- The course will consist lessons with iconographic material. There will also be exercise seminars focused on reading art works as well as specified conferences held by experts of the discipline.
Learning assessment procedures
- The last text is an oral examination and treats the subjects analysed during the lessons. Basing on the above mentioned bibliography, it is necessary the ability to collocate the movements in their context and to recognize stylistically the works. The examination will last about twenty minutes, during that the candidate will be addressed three or four questions .
Reference texts
- Bibliografy (12cfu)
UNIT I
you can choose among these books:
Arte del Novecento, Mondadori Università, Milano 2002: vol.1, S. Gallo-G.Zucconi, Arte del Novecento 1900-1944; M.Mirolla - G.Zucconi, Arte del Novecento 1945-2001.
T. Montanari - S. Settis, Arte. Una storia naturale e civile, vol.5, Einaudi, Torino 2019
If you have a good knowledge of the subject, these books will be considered as an alternative or an integration:
D.Riout, L’arte del Ventesimo secolo. Protagonisti, temi, correnti, Einaudi, Torino 2000.
UNIT II
R. Krauss, Passaggi. Storia della scultura da Rodin alla Land Art, Mondadori, Milano 1998
F. Poli, La scultura del Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006
Suggested bibliography (ModuloII)
H.Focillon, Vita delle forme, Einaudi, Torino 1972-1987.
A.von Hildebrand, Il problema della forma nell’arte figurativa, a cura di A. Pinotti e F. Scrivano, Aesthetica, Palermo 2001.
M.Heidegger, L’arte e lo spazio, Il Nuovo Melangolo, Genova 2003.
Sculpture contemporaine 1970-1986, in “Artstudio”, numero speciale, Parigi 1986.
U. Kultermann, Nuove dimensioni della scultura, Feltrinelli, Milano 1967
