Unit HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART II
- Course
- Archaeology and history of art
- Study-unit Code
- A001793
- 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
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian language
- Contents
- Italian art after the Second World War: languages, ideologies, debates.
- Reference texts
- The course slides will be available at the end of the lessons on the UNISTUDIUM platform (https://unistudium.unipg.it/).
For attending students:
Nascita di una nazione, catalogo della mostra (Firenze, 2018), a cura di L. Massimo Barbero, Marsilio, Venezia 2018, pp. 17-63 (https://unistudium.unipg.it/)
A. Del Puppo, Egemonia e consenso. Ideologie visive nell'arte italiana del Novecento, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2019, pp. 61-115.
F. Guzzetti, Ennio Morlotti e gli artisti di “Corrente” 1945-47; la ricezione di Picasso nella Milano del dopoguerra, in Ennio Morlotti e l’arte a Milano 1937-1953, Milano, Scalpendi editore, 2020, pp. 5-23 (https://unistudium.unipg.it/)
J. Nigro Covre, Arte contemporanea: tra astrattismo e realismo, Roma, Carocci, 2011, pp. 113-167.
For non-attending students:
L. Caramel (a cura di), Arte in Italia 1945-60, Milano, 1994, pp. 3-55 (https://unistudium.unipg.it/)
Arte in Italia. 1935-1955, Edifir, Firenze 1992, pp. 11-18. (https://unistudium.unipg.it/)
J. Nigro Covre, Arte contemporanea: tra astrattismo e realismo, Roma, Carocci, 2011, pp. 113-167.
Nascita di una nazione, catalogo della mostra (Firenze, 2018), a cura di L. Massimo Barbero, Marsilio, Venezia 2018, pp. 17-63 (https://unistudium.unipg.it/)
A. Del Puppo, Egemonia e consenso. Ideologie visive nell'arte italiana del Novecento, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2019, pp. 61-130 - Educational objectives
- The teaching aims to broaden and deepen historical-artistic knowledge in relation to the complex dynamics of contemporaneity, acquiring a correct research method, variety of sources, resources and bibliographical tools, and developing an adequate ability to appropriately expose the contents and to acquire autonomy of judgement.
Knowledge
- Know the terms of the artistic debate in the historical-political context of the period examined.
-Know the variety of positions and interactions between art and political militancy;
- Acquire adequate knowledge of the multifaceted cultural promotion in the post-war years.
Ability
Knowing how to recognize and frame authors, works and phenomena in relation to contexts, public and critical reception, the role of intellectuals and politics.
Knowing how to analyze and communicate - appropriately applying the specific vocabulary - iconographies, languages, ways of using 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
- Know the fundamentals of art history of the Twentieth century.
- Teaching methods
- Face-to-face with audiovisual material
Practical training
Seminar lectures
Field trips - Other information
- Attendance at lessons is strongly recommended.
- 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 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.
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 artists, themes and languages ¿¿that marked the most significant positions of the artists' militant commitment between the 1940s and 1950s.
After an initial examination of Picasso's role at the Paris Expo of 1937, the premises of Realism will be analyzed in relation to the artists and critics who gravitate around the magazine "Corrente"
The following topics will then be explored in depth: Guttuso between Rome and Milan; the Bergamo Prize and the Cremona Prize; the writings on Realism; artists, exhibitions and magazines between 1944 and 1946; The role of critics; art and politics between militancy, interference and conflicts; two outsider: Fontana e Burri; the debate between realists and abstractionists; Forma 1 and Il Fronte Nuovo delle Arti in the exhibition circuit of the Venice Biennale, the Quadrennial and the Painting Awards. Artist groups in the early 1950s; the magazine Realismo; the Eight by Lionello Venturi; the Last Naturalism by Francesco Arcangeli; the 1954 Biennial and Leoncillo.
Relations between Europe and America at the end of the 1950s. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
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