Contemporary Art and Culture

Year
2
Academic year
2014-2015
Code
01007641
Subject Area
Fine Arts
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
4.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Art and Modern Culture

Teaching Methods

Each class will have 50% of their time devoted to theory and 50% to practical analysis of works of art. There will be guidance and monitoring of specific investigations.

Learning Outcomes

Understand the nature of art inside culture.

- Deal with art as a form of knowledge and a media platform between mankind and the world.

- Realize the difference between the object of art and the object of design.

- Understand the relation between art and media, art and science and art and philosophy.

- Distinguish the idea of beauty and ugly in an historical perspective.

- Acquire the ability to do a critical analysis of the work of art and 

- Identify major aesthetic movements that underlie the development of the paradigms of contemporary art and culture.

- Acquire a general overview of contemporary artistic production.

- Interact with works of art in guided tours of exhibitions

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Art and culture.

- Theory of art: art and aesthetic cognition, art and communication.

- Artwork and aesthetic object - aestheticization of the world.

- Art, science and technology.

- Mechanisms of legitimating the artwork.

- Art as a"gratuitous essential."

- The language of art: discourses, techniques and vocabulary.

- Models of reading the image.

- The evolution of the space of representation: From Caravaggio, Velázquez and Manet to Lucian Freud, Morimura or Mapplethorpe.

- Modernity and Modernism: Manet and Marcel Duchamp.

- The Vanguards and Futurism.

- The Duchamp paradigm in a diachronic perspective: from conceptual art to current transdiciplinarity.

- The importance of Duchamp's work to understand contemporary art: appropriation and quotation.

- Deconstruction and Post-Modernity (60s to current: Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Conceptualism, Minimalism, Feminism, etc.. (Disciplinary Mergers: Lessons in Photography, Video, Sculpture, Dance and Cinema)

Head Lecturer(s)

José Augusto Maçãs da Silva Carvalho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

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Almeida, Bernardo Pinto, Transição – a nova paisagem artística no final do século xx, Assírio & Alvim, Lisboa, 2002.

Barbosa, Pedro, Metamorfoses do real – Arte, Imaginário e conhecimento estético, Afrontamento, 1995.

Cabanne, Pierre, Marcel Duchamp: Engenheiro do Tempo Perdido, Assírio & Alvim, 1990.

Cádima, Francisco Rui, História e crítica da comunicação, Séc XXI, 1996.

Coelho, Eduardo Prado, O fio da modernidade, Noticias, 2004.

Foucault, Michel, O que é um autor, Vega, 1995.

Honnef, Klaus, Contemporary Art, Taschen, Koln, 1994.

Lipman, Matthew, What happens in Art, Irvington Publishers, NY, 1983.

Miranda, José Bragança de, Politica e Modernidade, Colibri, Lisboa, 1997.

Vidal, Carlos, Imagens sem disciplina – meios e arte nas últimas décadas, Vendaval, Lisboa, 2002.

Ward, Glenn, Postmodernism, Hodder & Toughton, 1997.