Learning objectives
The course intends to provide students with the proper methodology and critical awareness for studying and analyzing contemporary art of the 20th Century, a time in which artists have often engaged with the expressive means of new technologies. Through the course students are expected to acquire a competence allowing them to comprehend and address the specific problem of the subject, also from a technical and lexical point of view.
Prerequisites
Students are required to have proper knowledge of the outline of art history, particularly of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Course unit content
The course is focused on art in the 19th and 20th Centuries – in Italy, but with constant attention towards the international scene – and particularly on forms of visual communication exploiting new technologies.
Full programme
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Bibliography
In addition to the notes, students will have to study one book in the list below:
A. Acocella, Avanguardia diffusa. Luoghi di sperimentazione artistica in Italia. 1967-1970, Macerata, Quodlibet 2016
C. Casero, E. Di Raddo (a cura di), Anni ’70: l’arte dell’impegno. I nuovi orizzonti culturali, ideologici e sociali nell’arte italiana, Cinisello Balsamo, Milano, Silvana Editoriale 2009
C. Casero, E. Di Raddo (a cura di), Anni Settanta. La rivoluzione nei linguaggi dell'arte, Postmediabooks, Milano 2015
R. Perna, Arte, fotografia e femminismo in Italia negli anni Settanta, Postmediabooks, Milano 2013
A. Pioselli, L’arte nello spazio urbano. L’esperienza italiana dal 1968 a oggi, Johan & Levi, Monza 2015
F. Poli, Minimalismo, Arte Povera, Arte Concettuale, Laterza, Roma Bari 2014
T. Trini, Mezzo secolo di arte intera. Scritti 1964-2014, Milano, Johan & Levi 2016
Teaching methods
The course will be in remote through the use of Teams and Elly platforms. In particular, lessons will be realized in synchronous mode (via Teams), which can also be used in asynchronous mode (uploaded on the Elly page of the course). Also on Elly, useful materials will be made available for the preparation of the exam. Frontal lectures addressing the historical and methodological foundations of the subject, as well as the guidelines for reading the proposed images.
Assessment methods and criteria
The exams will be oral. If, due to the continuing health emergency, it is necessary to adopt the remote mode for the performance of the profit exams, the Teams platform will be used (see the guide in http://selma.unipr.it/). During the final exam, students will be required to be able to read the visual documents of contemporaneity in their technical and expressive specificity. It will also be necessary that they show the adequate ability to put their formal elements in relation with their general context of the developments. During each lecture, students will be required to actively participate, addressing the proposed cases and, in the process, enhancing their own ability to analyze and understand the contemporary visual document. The exam will consist of the discussion of the artworks seen in class and the literature dedicated to them, which will be indicated in the course bibliography. Each student will also have to present a written essay on one specific case, through which he/she will have to show an ability to organize a personal study, from the research of sources and the outlining of a conceptual scheme to the actual writing process; in this way students will test their autonomous critical awareness and their communicational skills.
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