Unit SYSTEMS AND LANGUAGES OF CONTEMPORARY ART
- Course
- Archaeology and history of art
- Study-unit Code
- GP003580
- Curriculum
- Generico
- Teacher
- Stefania Petrillo
- Teachers
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- Stefania Petrillo
- Hours
- 42 ore - Stefania Petrillo
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- 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 language- Contents
The fabulous Sixties between Rome and Milan: artists, critics and galleries (1959-64).- Reference texts
Attending students:
Arte italiana 1960-1964. Identità culturale, confronti internazionali, modelli americani, a cura di F. Fergonzi, F. Tedeschi, Milano 2017, pp. 8-82, 165-183.
C. Sylos Calò, Corpo a corpo. Estetica e politica nell'arte italiana degli anni Sessanta, Quodlibet, Macerata 2018, pp. 23-107.
L. Alloway,
Network: The Art World Described as a System,
in “Artforum” 11, September 1972, pp. 1-15.
Other bibliographical references will be indicated based on the actual development of the program and its possible in-depth studies.
Non-attending students:
C. Zambianchi, Arte contemporanea. Dall'Espressionismo astratto alla Pop Art, Carocci, Roma 2011, pp. 111-164.
L. Caramel, Arte in Italia, Vita e Pensiero, 1994, pp. 189-211, 319-343.
Arte italiana 1960-1964. Identità culturale, confronti internazionali, modelli americani, a cura di F. Fergonzi, F. Tedeschi, Milano 2017, pp. 8-82, 165-183.
C. Sylos Calò, Corpo a corpo. Estetica e politica nell'arte italiana degli anni Sessanta, Quodlibet, Macerata 2018, pp. 23-107.
L. Alloway,
Network: The Art World Described as a System,
in “Artforum” 11, September 1972, pp. 1-15.- Educational objectives
Knowing the trends, the protagonists and the languages ¿¿of art in Italy at the beginning of the sixties.
Knowing how to frame authors and works in relation to the "system" of reference galleries and critics.
Knowing how to identify the specificity of individual research and the contamination with the orientations of international art, in particular American. Knowing how to frame authors and works in relation to the trends.- Prerequisites
Knowledge of the foundations of twentieth century art history.- Teaching methods
Face-to-face with audiovisual material
Practical training
Seminar lectures
Field trips- Learning verification modality
Oral examination
The test, lasting about 30 minutes, includes questions on the topics covered in class starting from the recognition of the works, and on the texts indicated in the bibliography.
The ability to organize, critically rework and expose the contents appropriately through an adequate reading of the works will be verified.- Extended program
Through the analysis of the visual sources, the writings of the artists and the ideas of the critical debate, the course will analyze the main lines of Italian artistic research between the end of the informal and the advent of Pop art within the framework of international trends. Particular attention will be paid to the most prominent personalities and to the initiatives to promote the "art system" (galleries, national exhibitions, magazines, etc.) which mark the opening and renewal of languages.
Key points of the discussion will be:
- beyond the Informal; elements of discontinuity and "zeroing" tendencies between the late fifties and early sixties;
- the proposals of the galleries;
- exemplary cases: Fontana, Manzoni, Paolini, Fabro; the young Roman school;
- reception of contemporary American art.