Concept and Practice in Contemporary Art

Recommended Prerequisites

This course can be taken by studentes with any background. Though previous knowledge of Art History may be helpful, it's not mandatory.

Teaching Methods

The classes are conducted in a course through the oeuvre of Marcel Duchamp, through the analysis of each work, stimulating the students participation and investing in their conceptualization skills.

Learning Outcomes

Through the analysis of the works of Marcel Duchamp, to provide the students with skills that enables them to understand the conceptual dimension of the work of art in the relationship between ideas and forms. The versatility of his art practice helps understand the dynamics of the aesthetical phenomena, paves the way to the acquisition of reading skills in what concerns the study of the works of art and is also a contribute to understand art as a form of reflecting on reality.  

In this sense, the oeuvre of Marcel Duchamp, pioneer of the more relevant aspects that characterize contemporary art practice, is used here as a way of improving the abilities of the students in what concerns the complexities of perception of the work of art.

One of the objectives of this unit is to recognize the importance of his oeuvre in its relationships with the first movements of modern art and as catalyst of the art practices of today.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

a) Duchamp in the beginning of Modern Art: the search for a non retinal art in a context of affirmation of visuality.

b) Relationship between cubist visuality and narrativity

c) The valorization of mind in art in detriment of its artisanal aspects

d) The affirmation of an oeuvre that can’t be circumscribed in the limits of any art movement.

e) Relationship between the pictorial and the conceptual.

f) The readymades and the expansion of the concept of work of art.

g) Art as a form of aesthetical reflection.

h) The work of art and the idea of individual.

i) The work of art and the viewer.

j) Duchamp as catalyst of most of the art practices of today.

Head Lecturer(s)

António José Olaio Correia de Carvalho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The students have the option of doing either the Midterm exam or the Exam, In the case of choosing to do both, they will get the best mark of the two.: 100.0%

Bibliography

Ferrier, Jean Louis, Art of the 20th century, Éditions du Chêne, 1999

Stangos, Nikos, Concepts of modern art, ed. World of art, 1994

Ashton, Dore, Rencontre avec Marcel Duchamp, ed. L’Echoppe, Paris 1996

Drucker, Johanna, Theorizing modernism, ed. Columbia University Press, Nova Iorque, 1994

Duchamp, Marcel,  Duchamp du signe, ed. Flammarion, Paris, 1994 

Duchamp, Marcel, Engenheiro do Tempo Perdido, entrevistas com Pierre Cabanne, ed. Assírio & Alvim, Lisboa, 1990

Duve, Thierry De, The definitively unfinished Marcel Duchamp, ed. MIT Press, Massachusetsk, 1993

Duve, Thierry de, Resonances du readymade, Éditions Jacqueline Chambon, Nîmes, 1989

Duve, Thierry,"Nominalisme pictural", Editions de Minuit,Paris, 1984

Lyotard, Jean-François, Les transformateurs DUchamp, éditions Galilée, Paris, 1997

Schwarz, Arturo, The complete works of Marcel Duchamp, Nova Iorque, 1997

Stilles, Kristine e Selz, Peter, Theories and documents of Contemporary Art, ed. University of California Press, 1996