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 2022
- Offered
- 2023/24
- 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 Language
- Contents
- Abstract art.
Research and declinations in painting between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. - Reference texts
- Attending students:
G. Roque, Che cos'è l'arte astratta?, Donzelli, Roma 2012, pp. 3-53, 61-89, 96-114, 233-244.
J. Nigro Covre, Astrattismo, Federico Motta Editore, Milano 2002, pp. 14-50, 78-104, 227-267.
V. Kandinskij, Lo spirituale nell’arte, ed. it. 2005
Non-attending students:
G. Roque, Che cos'è l'arte astratta?, Donzelli, Roma 2012, pp. 3-53, 61-89, 96-114, 233-244.
J. Nigro Covre, Astrattismo, Federico Motta Editore, Milano 2002, pp. 14-50, 78-104, 227-267.
V. Kandinskij, Lo spirituale nell’arte, ed. it. 2005, tre parti inserite su UniStudium
H. Foster, R. Krauss, Y-A. Bois, B.H.D. Buchloh, Arte dal 1900. Modernismo, Antimodernismo, Postmodernismo, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2006, pp. 118-124, 130-134, 148-153.
Other bibliographic indications for individual insights will be provided during the lessons.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.
For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - Educational objectives
- Knowing how to frame authors and works in relation to the historical-artistic context.
Know appropriate terminology.
Develop a study methodology that contemplates the sounding of different levels of reading the work of art.
Knowing how to reconstruct, through exemplary cases, the history of abstract painting of the twentieth century also in a geo-cultural perspective. - Prerequisites
The knowledge of the fundamentals of Eighteenth-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 graduating in Art History
Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, consult the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it).- 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.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies ensured by law, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of tests and exams. For general information, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or SLD Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it).- Extended program
On the terms "abstract" and "concrete" between the 19th and 20th centuries.
Symbols and geometries in the forge of the Nabis.
The researches of the first avant-gardes: the fauve (de)construction and the cubo-futurist researches.
The contribution of the applied arts.
Theories of abstraction in Germany (1908-1912).
The dialogue between painting and music.
The controversy of "non-figurative" artists against the term "abstraction": from Matisse to Mondrian.
The thirties.
The Second World War: From Geometric Abstraction to Abstract Expressionism.
The Italian situation after 1945.- Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- 4 Istruzione di qualità
5 Uguaglianza di genere
12 Consumo e produzione responsabili