Contemporary Art and Culture
Code
711061035
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 extend and consolidate students knowledge on contemporary art.
b) To cross historical information on contemporary art with a theoretical perspective based on aesthetics.
c) To provide multidisciplinary instruments to understand contemporary artistic realities.
d) To identify interactions between contemporary art and other cultural domains.
Prerequisites
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Subject matter
1. Baudelaire and modern´ self-justification. Modernity and progress. \"Enlightenment reason\" and its values in early 20th century.
2. Modern, modernity and modernism: concepts and history.
3. The contribution of early avant-gardes and the importance of their legacy.
4. Practices and discourses of modernity in post-war: Paris versus Nova York.
5. Clement Greenberg and the defence of American paintings \"centrality\" in the 1950s.
6. Aporias of the early avant-gardes models restoration.
7. The role of early avant-gardes in Peter Burger and Hal Foster´s perspectives.
8. The end of modernity according to G. Vattimo and the debate between modernism and postmodernism.
9. Art in the age of simulacrum and the changes operated in sensorial and perceptive experiences.
Bibliography
BOIS, Yve-Alain; BUCHLOH, Benjamin; FOSTER, Hal; KRAUSS, Rosalind; Art since 1900. Modernism. Antimodernism. Postmodernism, London, Thames & Hudson, 2004
BURGER, Peter, Teoria da Vanguarda, Lisboa,Vega,1993
DUVE, THIERRY DE, The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp, Cambridge /Massachussets, MIT Press,1991
FOSTER, Hal, The Return of the Real, Cambridge, Massachussets, MIT Press,1996
KRAUSS, Rosalind, The Originality of the Avant Garde and Other Modernist Myths, Cambridge / Massachussets, MIT Press, 1999
Teaching method
Theoretical- practical classes and 1 monthly visit to museums, galleries or art centres. Analysis of artworks presented in classes. Discussion (every two weeks) of selected texts from the bibliography
Evaluation method
Presentation and discussion of 1 work.
Final written test (2 hours).