Learning objectives
The course aims at training the students for the research and critical interpretation of the sources of the history of art, looking for a more complete awareness of the methodologies for historical and artistic studies. The chosen monographic theme confronts the students with several iconic and literary evidences. At the end of the course the student should be able to autonomously meet the interpretation of various sources and testimonies, managing to frame them in their historical context, and must acquire a secure ability fot the reworking and a mastery of the specialized terminology.
Prerequisites
- - -
Course unit content
The course aims to identify some issues of the italian debate on the the Second World War aftermath, especially on the bound relationship between politics and art research.
The artworks and documents (letters, texts, catalogues, magazines) collected and preserved in University of Parma's CSAC represent the grounds of this study.
Full programme
- - -
Bibliography
N.Misler, La via italiana al realismo. La politica culturale del P.C. dal 1944 al 1956, Mazzotta, Milano 1976
Il rosso e il nero: figure e ideologie in Italia 1945-1980 nelle raccolte del CSAC, catalogo della mostra a cura di Gloria Bianchino e Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Parma 1999-2000, Electa, Milano 1999
Guardando all'URSS : realismo socialista in Italia dal mito al mercato, catalogo della mostra a cura di Vanja Strukelj, Francesca Zanella, Ilaria Bignotti, Mantova, Palazzo Te, 30 maggio-28 ottobre 2015
Teaching methods
Side by side with the lectures, seminars are planned for the students to comment, guided by the teacher, and explain texts (especially some biographies taken from Vasari's Vite), putting in place the proposed methodological reccomendation and identifying some specific issues.
Assessment methods and criteria
Starting from the bibliography and the subjects pointed out during the lessons, the students will have find out specific topics to examine in depth, about which they should then give an account in an oral presentation in front of the colleagues and with a written report. In this short exam it will also be evaluated the student autonomy in a bibliographical research, his ability to deal with a critical debate and to define a problematic research: all skills which will be necessary for the further processing of the thesis. The oral examination, which will take on the entire program, will have to verify the acquired knowledge, the student ability to analyze and summarize, his critical maturity in the reworking of the proposed themes.
Other information
- - -
