HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Some significant issues will be examined to the purpose of understanding how the artistic activity has been developing in connection with the deep aesthetic, cultural and sociological changes produced by the characteristics of the contemporary world.

We’ll be focusing our attention on international art from the 50’s to the present day and we’ll be making specific reference to the situation so-called “post-medial”, to Video Art, to performance and Body Art and to hybridizations between art and new media.

Francesco Poli a c., Arte contemporanea. Le ricerche internazionali dalla fine degli anni 50 a oggi, Electa, Milano 2013 (ristampa) (384 pagine);

Hal Foster, Il ritorno del reale. L’avanguardia alla fine del Novecento, Postmedia books, 2006, (pagine 236);

Mario Perniola, L’arte espansa, Einaudi, Torino 2015 (96 pagine);

Giuseppe Frazzetto, L’invenzione del nuovo. Modi dell’arte contemporanea (Nuova edizione), Maimone, Catania 2013 (144 pagine).