Unit FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Course
Cultural heritage
Study-unit Code
GP005321
Curriculum
Storia dell'arte
Teacher
Alessandra Migliorati
Teachers
  • Alessandra Migliorati
Hours
  • 36 ore - Alessandra Migliorati
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2022
Offered
2024/25
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Discipline relative ai beni culturali
Academic discipline
L-ART/03
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents

History of art of XIX and XX century.
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:
Hugh Honour, Il Romanticismo, Torino, Einaudi, 2007.
Linda Nochlin, Il realismo nella pittura europea del XIX secolo, Torino, Einaudi, 2003.
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
Frontal lessons with audiovisual material; Field trips
Other information

For the start and end date, the calendar of lessons and their location, consult the official calendar http://www.lettere.unipg.it/didattica/calendari
Learning verification modality

Oral interview lasting 30-40 minutes. The interview is aimed at verifying knowledge of the course topics through questions of a general nature or on individual artists and the historical-critical analysis of works of particular interest.
Students with disabilities and/or with DSA who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can request the compensatory tools provided for by the 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 see the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa. For the request, the student is invited to contact the teacher, who will put him or her in contact with the Department's Disability and/or DSA contact person (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it)
Extended program

The program focuses on issues and problems in the history of art of the eighteenth century and the twentieth century. In order to provide a guide to the study, during the course will investigate the following topics:

1. Neoclassical and Romantic
2 The Italian 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
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. The Art between the Wars
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. The seventies and eighties
18. A path of twentieth century sculpture: plastic form and space from Rodin and Rosso to "practicable" sculpture
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