Art Theory
Code
2703
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Conservação e Restauro
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Rita Andreia Silva Pinto de Macedo
Weekly hours
4
Total hours
68
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
Understand and contextualize the process of autonomy of art within the scope of the relation between ethics and aesthetics.
Identify the speceficity of artistic languages and the associated theory problematization.
Subject matter
1. Art Theory in Art History and Conservation of art objects.
1.1 The status of art from Greece to Contemporary period
1.2 The introduction of subjectivism. Notions of subject in modern thought
2. The role of Academies in the affirmation and legitimation of the artwork.
2.2 Consequences of the appearance of the French''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Salon''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''.
2.2 The birth of criticism and its consequences on the legitimacy of the works. Artistic and aesthetic value. Artistic creation and aesthetic judgment.
2.3 The Museum as the place of consecration of the work. The art market.
3. Work of art, art object and aesthetic pleasure.
4. The notions of Belo and Modernity in Baudelaire.
5. Notions of temporality in modernity. The consecration of the historic monument.
6. The Avant-garde.
6.1. Elites Art, mass art and anti-art.
6.2 Naming, authorship and context.
7. Authenticity of the artwork: true and false.
8. Art and theory in the post-World War II. The dematerialization of the art object.
Bibliography
ANTHOLOGIES AND GENERAL LITERATURE
Aesthetics (ed. Susan L. Feagin and Patrick Maynard). - Oxford University Press, 1997.
Art History and its methods: a critical anthology (selection and commentary by Eric Fernie). - London: Phaidon, 1995.
Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (ed. Charles Harrison & Paul Wood). - Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
CHOAY, Françoise, L''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''urbanisme, utopies et realités: une anthologie. - Paris: seuil, 1995.
Historia de las ideias estéticas y de las teorias artísticas contemporáneas (ed. Valeriano Bozal). - Madrid: Visor, 1996, 2 vols.
Oú va l''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Histoire de l''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Art Contemporain? (dir. Laurence Dorléac, Laurent Gervereau, Serge Gilbaut et Gerárd Monnier). - Paris: L''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Image, École Supérieure des Beaux Arts, 1997.
SOURCES AND OTHER TEXTS
ADORNO, T., Teoria Estética. - Lisboa: Ed. 70, 1982.
ADORNO, T., The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture. - Londres: Routledg, 1991.
ADORNO, T., HORKHEIMER, Max, Dialectic of Enlightment. London: Verso, 1997.
ARGAN, G. C., Arte e Crítica de Arte. - Lisboa: Estampa, 1988.
BAUDELAIRE, O Pintor da Vida Moderna. - Lisboa: Vega, 1993.
BAYER, Raymond, História da Estética. - Lisboa: Editorial Estampa, 1993.
BELTING, Hans, L''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Histoire de l''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Art est-elle finie?. - Paris: Ed. Jacqueline Chambon, 1989.
BENJAMIN, Walter, Sobre Arte, Técnica, Linguagem e Política. - Lisboa: Relógio d''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Água, 1992.
DAMISCH, Hubert, "Artes" in Enciclopédia Einaudi. - Lisboa: INCM, 1984.
DAMISCH, Hubert, L''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Origine de la Perspective. - Paris: Flammarion, 1993.
DIDI-HUBERMAN, Devant l''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Image. - Paris: Minuit, 1990.
EAGLETON, Terry, The Ideology of the Aesthetic. - Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
ECO, Umberto, A Definição de Arte. - Lisboa: Ed. 70, 1986.
ECO, Umberto, A Obra Aberta.- Lisboa: Difel, 1989.
FERRY, Luc, Homo Aestheticus: A Invenção do Gosto na Era Democrática. - Coimbra: Almedina, 2003.
FOCILLON, H. , A Vida das Formas. - Lisboa: Ed. 70, 2001.
GOODMAN, Nelson, Modos de Fazer Mundos. - Porto: Asa, 1995.
GOODMAN, Nelson, Langages de l''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Art. - Nîmes: J. Chambo, 1990.
GOMBRICH, E.H., O Discurso Filosófico da Modernidade - Lisboa: D. Quixote, 1990.
HAUSER, Arnold, Teorias da Arte. - Lisboa: Presença, 1978.
HEIDEGGER, Martin, A Origem da Obra de Arte. - Lisboa: Ed. 70, 1991.
HEIDEGGER, Le Triple Jeu de l''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Art Contemporaian. Sociologie des Arts Plastiques. - Paris: Minuit, 1998.
JAUSS, Hans Robert, A Literatura como provocação. - Lisboa: Vega, 1993.
KRAUSS, Rosalind, La Originalidad de la Vanguardia y otros Mitos Modernos. - Madrid: Alianza Forma, 1996.
LYOTARD, Jean-François, A Fenomenologia. - Lisboa: Ed. 70, 1986.
MARCUSE, H., A Dimensão Estética. - Lisboa: Ed. 70, 1999.
MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice, Phénoménologie de la Perception. - Paris: Gallimard, 1945.
MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice, O Olho e o Espírito. - Lisboa: Vega, 1982.
MONTEIRO, Paulo Filipe, Os Outros da Arte. - Oeiras: Celta, 1996.
MOULIN, Raymonde, Le Marché de la Peinture en France. - Paris: Minuit, 1967.
MOULIN, Raymonde, L''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Artiste, L''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Institution et le Marché. - Paris: Flammarion, 1992.
PREZIOSI, Donald, Rethinking Art History: meditations on a coy science. - Yale: University Pess, 1989.
SCHAEFFER, Jean-Maie, Think Art: Theory and Practice in the Art of Today. - Roterdão: Witte de With, 1998.
VENTURI, Lionello, História da Crítica da Arte. - Lisboa: Ed. 70, 1998.
WÖLFFLIN, H., Prolégomènes à une psycologie de l''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''architecture. - Paris: Carré, 1996.
Teaching method
Lectures supported by audiovisual materials. Seminars with presentation and discussion of key texts for understanding the main topics of the curricular unit.
Lectures are followed by students’questions and exercises aimed at developing critical abilities.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment will have three components: a final written test, group presentation and discussion of an article, two surprise tests (only the one with better classification will be eligible for the final average). Final grade = mandatory written test (50%) + 1 surprise test (25%) + presentation and discussion of an article (25%)