Temas Contemporâneos das Artes Visuais (not translated)
Code
722011114
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
To identify and analyze the emerging themes and questions within the domain of visual arts.
To relate the trends of concepts, genres and categories of the visual arts practices.
To recognize and to understand the visual arts exhibition conditions, namely the curatorial practices and exhibition models.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
One of the most evident aspects of contemporary visual arts is its polymorph, plural and excessive character. To a certain point, all these possibilities are expressions intrinsic to an actuality that founds part of its dynamics from the confusion and dilution of specificities. In this sense, this program aims to analyze characteristics, derivations and combinations within the domain of the theory and practice of artistic imagery, by focusing recent trends on the conceptual, aesthetical and technical levels.
A first group of contents pays attention to certain inclinations and themes actualizations (e.g., time and movement, archive and memory, quotidian, spatiality and place), as well a critical perspective on the artistic categories and genres. Finally, several questions on the curatorial exercise will me examined, as well the modes and devices of presentation/exhibition visual works.
Bibliography
Didi-Huberman, Georges, Devant l´image, Paris, Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1990
Foster, Hal, The Return of the Real. Art and Theory at the End of the Century, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1996
Graham, Beryl e Cook, Sarah, Rethinking Curating, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2010
Krauss, rosalind, Perpetual inventory, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2010
Manovich, Lev, The Language of New media, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2001
Mondzain, Marie José, Image, icône, économie: les sources byzantines de limaginaires contemporain, Paris, Seuil, 1998
Ranciére, Jacques, Le spectateur emancipé, Paris, La Fabrique, 2008
Ranciére, Jacques, The Future of the Image, Verso, 2009
Teaching method
Theoretical and practical explanatory classes, using visual examples (photographs and video documentation)
Discussions on the works produced by the students.
Study visits to exhibitions and artist studios.
Evaluation method