PRINCIPLES OF ART HISTORY
cod. 03877

Academic year 2020/21
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
- Elisabetta FADDA
Academic discipline
Storia dell'arte moderna (L-ART/02)
Field
Discipline relative ai beni storico-archeologici e artistici, archivistici e librari, demoetnoantropologici e ambientali
Type of training activity
Characterising
30 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Learning objectives


The fundamental objective is to explain how to study the main artistic
movements, which requires multiple approaches and different methods
of analysis, although in constant respect for the unity of history (2nd
descriptor). The student must: know how to use the evaluation of mature
knowledge (3rd descriptor); start mastering the correct use of the
disciplinary terminology (4th descriptor); it has been studied in an
autonomous and original way to connect phenomena and to read the
complexity of the history of art (5th descriptor)

Prerequisites


There is no mandatory propedeuticity

Course unit content


The course illustrates the methodology used to study the history of art
and the evolution of artistic language between the twelfth and twentieth centuries

Full programme


History of art from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary: Instructions for
use:
Italian art: Giotto di Bondone
The Florentine Renaissance: Brunelleschi and Donatello
Masaccio's painting
Why Renaissance?
The historical - artistic labels
The Florentine perspective
Shape and iconography
The representation of space
Contemporary: why?
Classic and Neoclassical
Realism
Symbolism
The avant-gardes of the twentieth century and beyond

Bibliography


testo di riferimento:
• Antonio Pinelli, La Storia dell’arte. Istruzioni per l’uso, Bari GLF editori Laterza, 2009.

• Allo studio del libro di Pinelli andrà affiancata quella di UNO a scelta fra i seguenti testi e saggi in elenco:

Carlo Ginzburg, “Spie. Radici di un paradigma indiziario”, in Miti emblemi spie. Morfologia e storia, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino 1986 e successive edizioni, pp. 158-209 +
Alessandro Conti, “L’evoluzione dell’artista”, in Storia dell’arte italiana. Questioni e metodi, a cura di Giovanni Previtali, parte prima Materiali e problemi, vol. II, L’artista e il pubblico, Torino (Giulio Einaudi Editore) 1979, pp. 115-263;
Giovanni Previtali, “La periodizzazione della storia dell’arte italiana”, in Storia dell’arte italiana. Questioni e metodi, a cura di Giovanni Previtali, parte prima Materiali e problemi, vol. I, Questioni e metodi, Torino (Giulio Einaudi Editore) 1979, pp. 3-95;
Enrico Castelnuovo e Carlo Ginzburg, “Centro e periferia”, in Storia dell’arte italiana. Questioni e metodi, a cura di Giovanni Previtali, parte prima Materiali e problemi, vol. I, Questioni e metodi, Torino (Giulio Einaudi Editore) 1979, pp. 283-352;
L. Bellosi, La pecora di Giotto, Milano Abscondita 2015
R. Krautheimer, Tre capitali cristiane, topografia e politica, Torino, Einaudi, 1987: i capitoli dedicati a Roma e Milano (PDF on-line).
L. Bellosi, Giotto, Firenze, Scala, 1981
Bibliografia – Istituzioni di Storia dell’arte
1 libro a scelta tra:
H. Honour, Neo-Classicism, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1968 (Neoclassicismo, trad. it. di R. Federici, Torino, Einaudi, 1993)
L. Nochlin, Realism, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1971 (Il realismo. La pittura in Europa nel XIX secolo, trad. it. di G. Scattone, Torino, Einaudi, 1979, 1989)
M.G. Messina, Le muse d'oltremare. Esotismo e primitivismo dell'arte contemporanea, Torino, Einaudi, 1993
F. Rovati, L’arte del primo Novecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2015
A. Del Puppo, L’arte contemporanea. Il secondo Novecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2913
Museo Nazionale. 150 opere d’arte dela storia d’Italia, dal programma di Rai Radio3 a cura di Monica D’onofrio, Milano Officina libraria 2019 (scegliere almeno tre tra le opere d’arte commentate nel volume ed essere in grado di illustrarle)
A.Chastel, La Gioconda . L’illustre incompresa, Milano 1989 (ne esistono anche edizioni più recenti che vanno comunque bene, il libro è sempre lo stesso).
R. Longhi, Breve ma veridica storia della pittura italiana, Milano Abscondita 2013
V. Farinella, S. Panichi, L’eco dei marmi. Il Partenone a Londra: un nuovo canone di classicità, Milano Donzelli 2003
R. Longhi, Proposte per una critica d’arte, collana Scorciatoie editori Portatori d’acqua 2014
M.C.Bandera – E. Fadda (a cura di), R. Longhi – G. Prezzolini, Lettere (1909 – 1927), Parma Mup, 2011
R. Longhi, Caravaggio, introduzione di G. Previtali, Roma Editori Riuniti 2006

Teaching methods


frontal lessons

Assessment methods and criteria


The assessment will take place through an oral exam lasting about 20-30
minutes. During the examination, images and reference texts can be
shown. Students will have the texts adopted with them.The evaluation
will consist of an oral test, inherent specifically i
topics covered in the course and those included in the recommended
bibliography. A question will be on a topic chosen by the candidate. A fail
is determined by the lack of an understanding of the minimum content of
the course, the inability to express oneself adequately, by a lack of
autonomous preparation, the inability to solve problems related to
information retrieval and the decoding of complex texts, as well as an
inability to make independent judgments. A pass (18-23/30) is
determined by the student’s possession of the minimum, fundamental
contents of the course, an adequate level of autonomous preparation and
ability to solve problems related to information retrieval and the decoding
of complex texts, as well as an acceptable level of ability in making
independent judgments. Middle-range scores (24-27/30) are
assigned to the student who produces evidence of a more than sufficient
level (24-25/30) or good level (26-27/30) in the evaluation indicators
listed above. Higher scores (from 28/30 to 30/30 cum laude) are awarded
on the basis of the student’s demonstration of a very good or excellent
level in the evaluation indicators listed above

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