Learning objectives
The course has the goal to train the students in the interpretation of artistic literature’s references, in a strict relationship with the thesis research: it will put under the spotlight critical statements and their relationship with a precise artistic, historical and cultural context
Prerequisites
A knowledge around the manuals of modern and contemporary art.
Course unit content
Thanks to spectacular representations of landscapes, the great performances of the world exhibitions, the extraordinary development of lithography and photography, the success of publishing and printing, during the 19th century perception of the journey and the landscape changes. European readers go through the boulevards of Paris or new railway routes browsing "The illustrated London News" and "L'illustration", or rolling out the typical litography-decorated long strips of "panoramas"; they learn to recognize the views of Istanbul or Cairo, through stereoscopes, visiting Egyptian temples reconstructed at the Crystal Palace or Paris exhibition. The course aims, through the analysis of some exemplary cases, to addresse the different issues related to the problem of the representation of the landscape, with special attention to the issue of sources, stabilization and the circulation of iconographic models.
Full programme
E. Said, Orientalismo. L’immagine europea dell’Oriente, Feltrinelli, Milano
2001 ( ed.orig. Orientalism, Pantheon Books, New York 1978)
V.Strukelj, Dentro, fuori, sulla soglia. Itinerari dello sguardo in Tableau de
Paris (1852-1853), in Dentro/Fuori, "Ricerche di sconfine", 3, 2012, pp.30-44 (
http://www.ricerchedisconfine.info)
Discipline del paesaggio. Un laboratorio per le scienze umane, a cura di G.
Iacoli, Mimesis,Milano-Udine, 2012
Bibliography
E. Said, Orientalismo. L’immagine europea dell’Oriente, Feltrinelli, Milano
2001 ( ed.orig. Orientalism, Pantheon Books, New York 1978)
V.Strukelj, Dentro, fuori, sulla soglia. Itinerari dello sguardo in Tableau de
Paris (1852-1853), in Dentro/Fuori, "Ricerche di sconfine", 3, 2012, pp.30-44 (
http://www.ricerchedisconfine.info)
Discipline del paesaggio. Un laboratorio per le scienze umane, a cura di G.
Iacoli, Mimesis,Milano-Udine, 2012
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons and seminars
Assessment methods and criteria
Written tests are fixed while the lessons are in progress, and the final exam will be oral
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