History of Art of the 20th Century
Code
711061053
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História da Arte
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Margarida Brito Alves
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To understand the importance of early avant-gardes on 20th century art.
b) To relate the proposals of early avant-gardes with subsequent artistic developments.
c) To recognize the fundamental questions raised by modernist architecture and its impact during the following decades.
d) To relate artistic production with 20th century socio-economic, political and cultural aspects.
Prerequisites
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Subject matter
1. Historical avant-gardes: continuity and rupture. Fauvism. Cubism. Abstraction. Dada and Surrealism.
2. Modernism in Architecture and Urban Planning: rationalism and functionalism. Europe and the United States of America.
3. Realisms between World Wars and totalitarian regimes.
4. Neo-avant-gardes: Informalisms, New Figuration, Pop Art, Performance and Conceptual Art.
5. The return to painting in the 1980s.
6. Architecture after World War II.
Bibliography
BOIS, Yve-Alain; BUCHLOH, Benjamin; FOSTER, Hal; KRAUSS, Rosalind; Art since 1900. Modernism. Antimodernism. Postmodernism, London, Thames & Hudson, 2004
ARGAN, G., Arte Moderna. Do Iluminismo aos Movimentos Contemporâneos, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 1992
DIDI-HUBERMAN, G., Devant lImage. Questions posées aux fins dune Histoire de lArt, Paris, Éditions Minuit, 1990
KRAUSS, Rosalind E., The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Others Modernist Myths, Cambridge, Massachusets, M.I.T. Press, 1999
LYNTON, Noebert, The Story of Modern Art, London, Phaidon, 1994
Teaching method
Theoretical-practical classes, supplemented by study visits. Discussion of selected texts from the bibliography.
Evaluation method
Presentation and discussion of 1 work.
Final written test (2 hours).