Unit HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Course
Humanities
Study-unit Code
35494306
Curriculum
Moderno
Teacher
Alessandra Migliorati
Teachers
  • Alessandra Migliorati
Hours
  • 36 ore - Alessandra Migliorati
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2020
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Affine/integrativa
Area
Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline
L-ART/03
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
History of art from the second half of the eighteenth century to the latest trends.
Reference texts
Manuale:
G.Cricco-F.Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell'arte. Dall'età dei lumi ai giorni nostri, vol.3, versione azzurra, Bologna, Zanichelli.

Another text to be chosen from:
J. Nigro Covre, Arte contemporanea: le avanguardie storiche, Roma, Carocci, 2009
I. Schiaffino, Arte contemporanea: metafisica, dada, surrealismo, Carocci, 2011

C. Zambianchi, Arte contemporanea: dall'Espressionismo astratto alla Pop art, Roma, Carocci, 2010

A. Del Puppo, L'arte contemporanea. Il secondo novecento, Einaudi, 2013

F. Poli, La scultura del Novecento, Laterza

If the student has particular interests, he or she can agree on another in-depth text with the teacher.
Educational objectives
The course encourages students to acquire a good knowledge of the main events and the theoretical positions of the art of the nineteenth and twentieth century, and a good ability to read the works.
Prerequisites
The student should preferably have already taken the Medieval and Modern Art History exams.
Teaching methods
Seminar lectures with audiovisual material; Field trips
Other information
For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or DSA visit the page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
Learning verification modality
The exam is aimed at verifying the knowledge of the course topics through general questions or on individual artists and the historical-critical analysis of particularly important works.
Extended program
The program focuses on issues and problems in the history of art Italian and foreign from the second half of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. In order to provide a guide to the study, during the course will investigate the following topics:

1. The Neoclassicism: the recovery of the ancient and the primacy of drawing
2 The European Romanticism: Art and ideology between spirituality and political commitment
3 The birth of the modern landscape: the landscape "state of mind" and the landscape from the true
4 From Realism to Impressionism
5. Symbolism in France: Moreau, Gauguin and the others
6. Cezanne and the geometric reduction of form
7. The first avant-gardes: the Fauves and the German Expressionists
8. Cubism
9. Futurism
10. The lines of abstract art: part I
11. The lines of abstract art: part II
12. Giorgio de Chirico's "Metaphysics of signs" and the "return to order"
13. Postwar period: the informal nebula between Europe and the United States
14. The Second World War in Italy: informal, abstraction and realism
15. Between the Fifties and the Sixties: the poetics of return to the object
16. Other research trends from the 1960s to today
17. A path of twentieth century sculpture: plastic form and space from Rodin and Rosso to "practicable" sculpture
18. Theory and practice of the relationship between art, architectural environment and landscape from the 1960s to today
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