Landscape in Art
Code
711061043
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História da Arte
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Margarida Acciaiuoli de Brito
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1) To provide students a general reflection in History of Art, based on the concept of “Landscape”
2) To understand transversal dimension of Landscape´s notion, and its alterations in Art History.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. The theme of Landscape as an introduction to the History of Contemporary Art.
2. Old models and new references in the representation of nature: Dutch painting of the 17th century and English landscape painting of the 18th century.
3. The cult of the \"natural\" and landscape art in France: From Georges Michel and Michallon to Paul Huet. The Salon of 1824.
4. Corot’s aesthetical situation.
5. The artistic horizon of the French Academy, the images of progress and the exiles from civilization: Th. Rousseau, C.F. Daubigny, Diaz de la Peña and the \"school\" of Barbizon.
6. Courbet and Millet and the paths of realism. The role of photography in the assertion of painting’s new values.
7. Painting of everyday life and urban landscape. From the utopian plans of the 1840s to the acclaim of Paris’ image as \"capital of the world\".
8. Manet and Cézanne or painting as sensation and thought.
9. Mondrian and the “new image of the world”.
10. Land Art and the relation to the territory.
Bibliography
BERQUE, Augustin (dir.), Cinq propositions pour une théorie du paysage. - Seyssel, Champ Vallon, 1994
CLARK, Kenneth, A Paisagem na Arte. - Lisboa, Ulisseia,1969
CAUQUELIN, Anne, L’Invention du paysage. - Paris, Ed. Plon, 1989
DeLUE, Rachel Ziady; ELKINS, James, Landscape Theory. - New York / London, Routledge, 2008
MITCHELL, W. J. T., Landscape and Power. - Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2000
Teaching method
This curricular unit is based on sessions that regularly combine an exposition component and a group debate that addresses each topic of the programme. The aim of this methodology is to deepen and consolidate the acquired knowledge and ensure the students´ critical and active involvement in the discussion of referential texts previously selected by the teacher.
Evaluation method
The final evaluation is based both on a final written test (50%), and the elaboration of an individual final essay (50%).