Contemporary Art and Culture
2
2016-2017
01007641
Fine Arts
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
4.0
Compulsory
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)
NoSyllabus
- 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%
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Miranda, José Bragança de, Politica e Modernidade, Colibri, Lisboa, 1997.
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