Concepts and Practice of Contemporary Art

Recommended Prerequisites

Arts and Contemporary Culture, Photography and Composition courses from LDM or similar units from other programs.

Teaching Methods

Classes will be guided in two ways: one with the presentation and analysis of works by artists and the other with practical classes for experimentation and project development.

Learning Outcomes

Through reading the works of artists from the modern avant-gardes to contemporary art, to develop in students the ability to read and understand the conceptual dimension of the work of art in its transdisciplinary dimension, using different media, in the dilution of boundaries between disciplines, such as: Video, Photography, Design, Drawing, Illustration, Animation, Typography.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Analysis of works of art from the formal point of view and their conceptual games, allowing them to be the starting point for works of a practical nature in different media. Works of art from different means of expression such as painting, photography, video, performance, sculpture, installation, and different forms of conceptual art will be shown and commented on. Emphasis will also be given to the work of art in the context of exhibitions with different themes or conceptual starting points as an example of possibilities for responding to different contexts.

The works carried out in this course will be motivated by different themes that will play with the possibilities of exploring formal and conceptual games, in a relationship between the poetics and the ambiguity of the work of art and an attentive look at the world, finding in the work of art a way of translating the social dimension of the individual and the possibility of translating the complexity of the aesthetic experience. 

Head Lecturer(s)

António José Olaio Correia de Carvalho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 100.0%

Bibliography

Bishop, C. (2005). Installation Art: A Critical History. Nova Iorque: Routledge

Bolter, Jay David and Gromala Diane, Windows and mirrors: interaction design, digital art, and the myth of transparency, Cambridge, Mass. - London, the MIT Press, 2003

Kember, S.- Virtual anxiety: photography, new technologies and subjectivity, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1998.

Hamlyn, Nicky, Film art phenomena, London, British Film Institute, 2003

Lovejoy, Margot, Digital currents: art in the electronic age, New York - London, Tourtledge,2004

Shaw, Jeffrey and Wiebel, Peter, Future cinema: the cinematic imaginary film, Cambridge,

Van, Hassche C., Gary Hill, IVAM Centre del Carme, Paris, Ed. Georges Pompidou, 1990

Perry, Michael, “Hand Job”, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009

Arga, Giulio Carlo, “Arte Moderna”, Ed. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo, 1998

Arnheim, Rudolf, “Visual Thinking”, University of California Press, Los Angeles, 1984.