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 2024
- Offered
- 2025/26
- 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
In the Umbria of Painters: from Richard Wilson to Umberto Prencipe. Landscape Themes between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries.- 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: V. Pomarède, I paesaggisti neoclassici: tra immaginazione e realismo, in Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes 1750-1819, catalogo della mostra (Spoleto, Palazzo Racani Arroni, 27 giugno - 4 agosto 1996), a cura di B. Mantura, G.Lacambre, Napoli, Electa Napoli, 1996, pp. 25-33 (PDF su Unistudium). S. Petrillo, “Il volto amato della patria”: le mostre del paesaggio italiano tra le due guerre, in Storia dell’arte, Storia della critica, Storia politica. L’entre-deux-guerres in Italia, atti del convegno (Perugia, Università per Stranieri, 22-23 maggio 2018), a cura di M. Dantini, Perugia, Aguaplano, 2019, pp. 165-179 (PDF su Unistudium). S. Petrillo, The Promotion of Italian Contemporary Art in Central and Eastern Europe between 1934 and 1938, in The art of power the power of art: artists, propaganda and politics from late antiquity to the contemporary age, edited by E. Costantini, L. La Rovere, I. Opris, Bucuresti Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti - Bucharest University Press, 2021, pp. 151-171 (PDF su Unistudium) S. Petrillo, Invito al viaggio. Nell’Umbria dei pittori, da Richard Wilson a Umberto Prencipe, in Spazi Umbri. Vedute e interni. Opere dalla Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, catalogo della mostra (Trevi, Complesso Museale di San Francesco, 31 maggio – 27 luglio 2025), a cura di D.K. Marignoli, S. Petrillo, Roma, Artemide, 2025, pp. 23-50 (PDF su Unistudium). 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. 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
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 the History of Art of the 19th and early 20th centuries.- Teaching methods
Face-to-face with audiovisual material
Practical training
Seminar lectures
Field trips- Other information
- Attendance at lessons is strongly recommended. 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
- 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. 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
- In search of a “sublime” nature or vestiges of the past, painters from many parts of Europe have crossed Umbria since the eighteenth century and have confronted the morphological variety of its landscape. The course aims to reconstruct the history of a genre that unfolds from the clear classicism of Richard Wilson, “the father of landscape painting” to the poetics of the years between the two wars. In relation to the trends of European landscape painting, the program will focus from the peculiar Umbrian observatory on the possible declinations of landscape painting: ideal, real, symbolic. The course aims to bring out the profile of a territory that has been a crossroads of artistic and cultural experiences, a place of revelation and contemplation, in which the landscape has been a space and measure of time, an image of the past but also an identity and cultural figure to be rediscovered and valorized. Main themes and protagonists: the eighteenth century of the English, French and Germans and the theories on modern landscape painting; old itineraries and new approaches to representation in the years of Romanticism; the second half of the 19th century between poetics of truth and symbolist interpretations; Italians and the valorization of the landscape, "beloved face of the homeland" between the 19th and 20th centuries.
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