Art, Avant-garde and Globalization

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012635
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The teaching methods are theoretical and practical, with text analyses (both from critics and artists writings). The analysis of art works and of documentation produced by artists and theorists will be frequent, and the students will be invited to produce reports and text receptions that will be presented and discussed collectively in class.

Learning Outcomes

To produce the knowledge of the artistic developments activated by the avant-garde movements during the 20th Century;

To develop a critical conscience about the globalization processes in the field of Contemporary Art;

To produce a critical conscience on the porosity between the 1st and 2nd avant-garde movements;

To produce a critical knowledge on the different ideological, economical and politically driven narratives of the 20th Century Art History.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The 20th Century Avant-Garde and its roots in the collapse of the Beaux-Arts system.
2. The Great Russian Experiment: a paradigmatic context.
3. Modernisms in Brazil: from the Manifesto Antropófago to the Neo-Concretismo.
4. The appropriation of modernism by the American criticism.
5. Modernism and idiossincratic experiences: Duchamp, Schwitters, Beuys, Nauman and Oiticica.
6. Dematerialization and desobjectualization: the 2nd avant-gardes between body and language.
7. Two moments of the Portuguese case: neo-realism and its relation to Latin America and the 70’s experimentalism.
8. The mourning processes and the globalized explosion of contemporary art.

Head Lecturer(s)

Joana Rita da Costa Brites

Assessment Methods

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous evaluation
Synthesis work: 30.0%
Research work: 70.0%

Bibliography

Appolinaire, Chroniques d’art 1902-1918: Paris, 1996
In the beginning was Merz – from Kurt Schwitters to the present day (cat): Berlim, 2000
Harrison, Charles and Wood, Paul (ed), Art in Theory, 1900-1990: Oxford, 1992
De Duve, Thierry, The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp: 1992
Tupitsyn, Margarita, El Lissitzky beyond the abstract cabinet.(cat) : Porto, 1999
Greenberg, Clement, The Complete Essays and Criticism: Chicago, 1993
Battock, Gregory (ed), Minimal Art: a critical anthology: Berkeley, 1968
Gullar, Ferreira, Experiência Neo-Concreta: S. Paulo, 2007
Hélio Oiticica (cat).: Lisboa, 1993
Lygia Clark (cat): Barcelona, 1997
Out of Actions (cat): Barcelona 1999
Bruce Nauman (cat): Madrid, 1994
Joseph Beuys. (cat): Madrid,
Belting, Hans e Buddensieg, Andrea (ed.),The Global Art World: Audiences, Markets and Museums. Ostfildern: 2009
Foster, Hal, Krauss, Rosalind, Bois, Yves-Alain e Buchloh, Benjamin, Art since 1900: Modernism, Anti-Modernism,Postmodernism:Londres,2005