Contemporary Art Seminar I

Recommended Prerequisites

The student must show an apropriate grasp of the philosophical, essayistic, and artistic culture that serves as a background to the discussions started during the seminar, in particular it should be able to show familiarity with conceptual tools that are tied to notions such as aesthetics, modernity, image / representation, language and experience, and have some notion of how these notions intertwine and feed each other in contact with the modern and contemporary arts.

Teaching Methods

Seminar sessions with guests and / or viewing of films or documentaries.

Learning Outcomes

The student must develop a set of critical skills that allow him/her to think about the modern and contemporary arts in their historical, conceptual and political valences. The student must, in this sense, learn to develop a culture of participation and dialogue with the interdisciplinary community residing in the College of Arts. The student must also learn to develop his / her research autonomously according to the scope of the discussions developed and the doctoral project that it is proposed to present at the end of the academic year.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The curricular unit Seminar I consists of a set of thematically oriented communications that aim to contribute to the development of a critical culture around the modern and contemporary arts taking into account an interdisciplinary perspective. Some of the sessions of Seminar I are also oriented according to a previous work of visualization of films or documentaries on and of artists. All sessions involve initial comments and final discussions.

Head Lecturer(s)

Luís Fernando Gomes da Silva Quintais

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Attendance and participation in debates promoted during uc sessions: 10.0%
Report of a seminar or field trip: 90.0%

Bibliography

Benjamin, Walter (1973 [1968]) «On some motifs in Baudelaire», Illuminations, Londres, Fontana [edição e introdução de Hannah Arendt; tradução de Harry Zohn].

Benjamin, Walter (2004 [1928]) A origem do drama barroco alemão, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim [edição, apresentação e tradução de João Barrento].

Gell, Alfred (1999a [1992]) «The technology of enchantment and the enchantment of technology», The art of anthropology: essays and diagrams, Londres e New Brunswick, NJ, The Athlone Press, pp. 159-86.

Gell, Alfred (1999b [1996]) «Vogel´s net_traps as artworks and artworks as traps», The art of anthropology: essays and diagrams, Londres e New Brunswick, NJ, The Athlone Press, pp. 187-214.

Quintais, Luís (2015) Exúvia, gelo e morte: a arte de Rui Chafes depois do fim da arte, Lisboa, Sistema Solar.