Unit HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART I
- Course
- Archaeology and history of art
- Study-unit Code
- A001921
- Curriculum
- Generico
- Teacher
- Stefania Petrillo
- Teachers
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- Stefania Petrillo
- Hours
- 36 ore - Stefania Petrillo
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-ART/03
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
Art and politics: icons, ideas and audiences from Neoclassicism to Social Realism- Reference texts
- C. Ginzburg, David, Marat. Arte politica religione, in Id., Paura reverenza terrore, Adelphi, Milano 2015, pp. 81-114.
F. Haskell, Arte e linguaggio della politica, Spes, Firenze 1978, pp. 1-23; 123-135.
T. Clark, Addio a un'idea: modernismo e arti visive, Einaudi, Torino 2005, pp. 15-51.
Other bibliographic indications will be provided during the lessons.
For non attending-student
C. Ginzburg, David, Marat. Arte politica religione, in Id., Paura reverenza terrore, Adelphi, Milano 2015, pp. 81-114.
F. Haskell, Arte e linguaggio della politica, Spes, Firenze 1978, pp. 1-23; 123-135.
T. Clark, Addio a un'idea: modernismo e arti visive, Einaudi, Torino 2005, pp. 15-51.
H. Honour, La causa della libertà, in Romaticismo, Torino Einaudi, 2007, pp.
228-258. - Educational objectives
Knowing how to frame authors and works in relation to a given historical-political context.
Develop a study methodology that contemplates the sounding of different levels of reading the work of art.
Knowing how to grasp the meanings, relationships and dissonances between political reality and its representation.
Knowing how to reconstruct, through exemplary cases, a history of thought and the different meanings of the function of art and the role of the artist in society.- Prerequisites
The knowledge of the fundamentals of Nineteenth-Century Art History.- Teaching methods
Face-to-face with audiovisual material
Practical training
Seminar lectures
Field trips- Other information
Attendance is highly recommended for students who graduate in Archeology and Art History.- Learning verification modality
Paper and Oral examination
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Paper (max 15,000 characters, bibliography included) with an in-depth analysis on a topic of the course to be agreed with the teacher and to be presented as part of a seminar organized "in itinere".
- Oral examination
The test, lasting about 30 minutes, includes questions on the topics covered in class starting from the recognition of the works, and a discussion on the texts indicated in the bibliography.- Extended program
- David, from the Monarchy to the Empire
Géricault and Delacroix between news, politics and history.
Hayez and history painting
Courbet "political" painter?
Chronicles of the Italian Risorgimento
The Social Realism of the Eighties in France and Italy