Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

The Body and Space in Contemporary Arts - 1st semester

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

Prerequisites

None.

Subject matter

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).

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