The Body and Space in Contemporary Arts
Code
722011068
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
José Bragança de Miranda
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1) To question the contemporary arts mobilizing theoretical and historical knowledge, as well as case studies and reading the writings of artists and critics relevant;
2) Subscribe critically contemporary artistic practices in relation to cultural, economic and political of current experience;
3) Exercising several methodologies for interpreting works or contemporary artists.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
The contemporary arts characterized by a huge diversity resulting from the crisis of aesthetic categories and spread post-objectual artistic practices. To respond to
this crisis analytically it is necessary to undertake a mapping of trends in contemporary arts, especially insistent today. In addition to the special status of the image
is on the meat / body and earth / space that have developed a refocused on the arts, politically oriented and no longer ´aesthetic´.
1. Introduction: The experience of becoming-image and preeminence of the current
2. The time Duchamp inauguration as contemporary arts
3. Crisis of aesthetic categories and the ´end of art´
4. The return of the archaic: the flesh and earth
5. Arts of the body: the body-art performance for
6. Arts Space: the installation of land-art
7. New Art: Technique, body and space
8. Conclusion: Art as widespread criticism of the economy
Bibliography
Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois & Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (orgs), Art Since 1900. Modernism, Antimodernism and Postmodernism, Londres, Thames & Hudson, 2005.
Gill Perry & Paul Wood (orgs.), Themes in Contemporary Art (Art of the 20th Century), Yale University Press, 2004.
Peter Howard Selz & Kristine Stiles (orgs),Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists´ Writings, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1996.
Jean Robertson & Craig McDaniel, Themes Of Contemporary Art: Visual Art After 1980, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Martha Buskirk, The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art, Mass., MIT, 2005.
Teaching method
Students must read in advance the supporting texts, thus allowing an initial contact with their
contents, so that, in the classes in presence, these contents can be given a deeper interpretation through a discussion between peers, at the same time granting an entry-level (because oriented by the teacher) autonomous acquisition of knowledge, as much as of their verbal exposition.
Evaluation method
A written essay (subject to an early approval of the work-plan by the teacher) and its oral presentation (in a «work in progress» state).