HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
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- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- ADA PATRIZIA FIORILLO
- Credits
- 12
- Curriculum
- ARCHEOLOGIA E 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 (6cfr)
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 (6crf)
The object in contemporary art
This part of the course intends to examine the use of the object in contemporary artistic experiences, from the early twentieth century to the second half of it. Attention will be paid to the phenomenology of use and reuse of the object in the art of the twentieth century, bearing in mind the conquest of the dimension of everyday life that has marked the artistic experiences throughout the century. From the cubist papier collé and collage and from the futurist polymetric plastic complex we will move on to examine the Dadaist object perspective, explicit above all in the character of the ready-made. It is a track that, passing through the expressiveness of the surrealist objet trouvé in the Thirties and Forties, comes to the existential dimension of the informal experiences, up to considering the side of the daily recovery of objects in the New Dada, Nouveau Realisme and Pop Art between the end of the Fifties and the beginning of the Sixties. 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.
F.Poli, (a cura di), Arte contemporanea. Le ricerche internazionali dalla fine degli anni ’50 a oggi, Electa, Milano 2003.
UNIT II
E. Crispolti, A. Mazzanti (a cura di), L’oggetto nell’arte contemporanea. Uso e riuso, Liguori Editore, Napoli 2011.
