The Body and its Representation in Contemporary Culture

Year
0
Academic year
2018-2019
Code
01012682
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

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodology is fundamentally theoretical and practical in nature, involving reading and critical review of theoretical texts and critical texts, as well as analysis and regular review of artistic works in the fields of theater, dance, performance, film and the plastic arts.  Students will take an in-class written exam. Students should  develop a short essay throughout the semester dedicated to the representation of the body in a particular work or author.  These works will be presented in class.

Learning Outcomes

- Understand the importance of the body in modern artistic representations;

- Understand the critical and perspective challenges of the artistic body;

- Describe the dominant representations of the body and corporeity in theatre, performance, dance and in cinema.

- Write a short essay about the representation of the body in a contemporary work of art.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- The contemporary body: from biopolitics to the mediatized body;

- The issue of the body and corporeity: criticism and perception;

- The body, its surface and its subjection to body markings.

- The body as an art object;

- The body present: theatre and performance;

- The body that dances: perspectives about dance in Europe and the USA at the turn of the 21st century (Merce Cunningham, Pina Bausch, Mauro Bigonzetti e Wayne McGregor).

- The body and cinema: performance and cinematic genres, perception and subjectivity, technology and digital effects

 

N.B. The class can vary depending upon the professor teaching it.

Head Lecturer(s)

Frederico Maria Bio Lourenço

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 20.0%
Other: 20.0%
Synthesis work: 20.0%
Frequency: 40.0%

Bibliography

BRANCO, Patrícia S. Castello (ed.), CINEMA. Jornal of Philosophy and the movind Image, Nº 3, “Embodiment and the Body”, 2012.

 

GIL, José, Movimento Total: O Corpo e a Dança, Lisboa, Relógio d’Água, 2001.

 

JEUDY, Henry-Pierre, O Corpo como Objeto de Arte, São Paulo, Editora Estação da Liberdade, 2002.

 

JONES, Amelia, Body Art, University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

 

O'REILLY, Sally, The Body in Contemporary Art, London, Thames & Hudson, 2009.

 

LOURENÇO, Frederico, Estética da Dança Clássica, Lisboa, Cotovia, 2014.

 

RIBEIRO, António Pinto, Corpo a Corpo. Possibilidades e Limites da Crítica, Lisboa, Cosmo, 1997.

 

SASPORTES, José, A Quinta Musa: Imagens da História da Dança, Lisboa, Bizâncio, 2012.