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 2023
- Offered
- 2024/25
- 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
- Cubism, cubisms and beyond.
- Reference texts
- The slides presented in class will all be available at the end of the course on the UNISTUDIUM platform.
Attending students:
M.G. Messina, Le muse d'oltremare, Einaudi, Torino, 1993, pp. 133-299. (https://www.academia.edu/4150429/Le_muse_doltremare_Esotismo_e_primitivismo_dellarte_contemporanea).
Il Cubismo. Rivoluzione e tradizione, catalogo della mostra (Ferrara
2004) a cura di M. Raeburn, Ferrara 2004, pp. 19-64.
(PDF in UNISTUDIUM).
N. Nochlin, The Vanishing Brothel, in "London Review of Books", 6 marzo 1997 (https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v19/n05/linda-nochlin/the-vanishing-brothel).
C. Ginzburg, Oltre l'esotismo: Picasso e Warburg, in C. Ginzburg, Rapporti di forza. Storia, retorica, prova, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2014, pp. 127-147.
non-attending students:
F. Rovati, L'arte del primo Novecento, Einaudi, Torino 2014, pp. 5-37, 109-113, schede 1-9.
Il Cubismo. Rivoluzione e tradizione, catalogo della mostra (Ferrara
2004) a cura di M. Raeburn, Ferrara 2004, pp. 19-64.
(PDF in UNISTUDIUM).
M.G. Messina, Le muse d'oltremare, Einaudi, Torino, 1993, pp. 133-299. (https://www.academia.edu/4150429/Le_muse_doltremare_Esotismo_e_primitivismo_dellarte_contemporanea).
N. Nochlin, The Vanishing Brothel, in "London Review of Books", 6 marzo 1997 (https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v19/n05/linda-nochlin/the-vanishing-brothel).
C. Ginzburg, Oltre l'esotismo: Picasso e Warburg, in C. Ginzburg, Rapporti di forza. Storia, retorica, prova, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2014, pp. 127-147. - Educational objectives
- The course, characterizing the curriculum in Art History, broadens and deepens knowledge of the History of contemporary art in relation to the complex and crucial phase of research that leads to the radical revolution of the historical Avant-gardes.
Through a targeted selection of authors, works and sources, appropriate methodological tools for analysis, understanding and critical evaluation of the phenomena are provided.
In particular, the training objectives are:
- Knowledge
Learn about the major protagonists and the works that mark the Cubist linguistic revolution, from the premises to the developments of the 1910s and 1920s.
Know the complex dynamics of interaction between groups of artists, critics, gallery owners, collectors, as well as the opportunities, roles and exhibition spaces (public and private) within which avant-garde circuits are part of.
- Capacity
Knowing how to recognize and frame authors, works and phenomena in relation to contexts, public and critical reception, and the role of collectors.
Knowing how to analyze and communicate - appropriately applying the specific vocabulary - iconographies, formal typologies, organizational models, methods of fruition of the works, critical debate.
- Skills
Acquire appropriate methods and adequate analytical and judgment skills also as a function of independent research and in-depth paths. - Prerequisites
- The knowledge of the fundamentals of Nineteenth-Century Art History.
- Teaching methods
- Face-to-face with audiovisual material
Practical training
Seminar lectures
Any field trips - Other information
- Attendance is highly recommended for students graduating in 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.
The knowledge acquired, the ability to organize the exposition with organicity, clarity and coherence, the ownership of language and the use of specific vocabulary, the critical re-elaboration of the contents, the ability to independently establish connections and integrate exposure with personal insights will be evaluated
in equal measure.
The final grade is obtained from the average of the scores of the written report and the oral exam.
For information on support services for students with disabilities and/or DSA visit the page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- Through the analysis of visual and written sources, we will delve into the components that, in the various phases of the creative process, contribute to the experimentation of new themes and formal directions.
After an introduction on Post-Impressionism, in particular on Cézanne's activity and Gauguin's research between painting and sculpture, the exhibition circuits (Salons and galleries) and the role of critics and dealers will be examined; the various forms of "Primitivism" and the discovery of Art nègre will be explored.
In particular, the paths of Picasso, Braque and the research of the Puteaux group with the Salon de la Section d'Or of 1912 will be analysed.
A specific reflection will be dedicated to the atelier as a laboratory and space of invention.
The subject of in-depth analysis will be the various phases of the transformation of language, from analytical cubism to synthetic cubism, to the invention of collage, papier collé and assemblage.
The interactions with other avant-garde languages ¿¿will also be analysed, in particular with the Fauves and the Futurists.
The last part of the discussion will be dedicated to the early attestations with which the "return to order" manifests itself. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
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