1016427 - STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA CONTEMPORANEA E STORIA DELL'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA
Module 1016429 - STORIA DELL’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA

The course aims to provide students enrolled in the first year of the degree course with the basic information and tools essential to understanding the history of art of nineteenth and twentieth century.The course investigates the main issues architecture through an overview and some monographic approaches (themes, p, artworks, debates, theories and protagonists). .The integration with the course of History of Contemporary Architecture is aimed at presenting the most important art movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and to emphasize the relationships between the artistic avant-garde of the '900 and the development of contemporary architectural language.

At the end of the course, the students

- will achieve an adequate knowledge of the history of arth of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (themes, protagonists, theories and works).

- will develop their own method of study that, on the basis of the knowledge acquired, will allow them to independently undertake more specific research in subsequent years.

- will learn to critically read the relationships and links between the arts and architecture, with reference also to the world of applied arts and design. 

- will  learn to use a language that allows them to expose their knowledge in an appropriate manner both to an audience of specialists and non-specialists. 

Learn how to "read" criticcally connection between art and architecture. 

The lessons of the module on the history of contemporary art will be carried out in close relation with the lessons of the module on the history of contemporary architecture.

The teaching includes lectures and some seminar meetings.

Learning process check tests (optional) will be scheduled, through written exercises with open-ended questions and oral interviews.

The final exam consists of an interview on the different topics covered by the lessons.

The course aims to introduce the first year students to the basic information about art in the 19th and 20th century, providing them with essential tools to understand different issues. The course faces the fundamental topics of 19th and 20th century, by means of both general frameworks and monographic approaches.  It will explore a range of aesthetic, cultural and social issues through the work of major artist.

Essential topics: 
“Modern” and contemporary”, historiographical issues. Methodological tools: analysis of essential books and dictionaries. Artistic culture between the second half of the 18^th century and the 19^th century:  classicism and romanticism. Realism. Impressionism. Art Nouveau. The Avant-Gardes at the beginning of the 20th century. The birth of Abstract art. Expressionism: art and architecture. The Bauhaus.  Le Corbusier and the artists.  Movements and theories after the Second World War. The Avant-Gardes in the Sixties. Artists between 1970 and 2000: case-studies. Artists, spectators and art market. 

1) Students are allowed to use their own school text of Modern Art Hisotry, after teacher agreement.

2) About art of XIX century: Robert Rosenblum, H. W. Janson, 19th Century Art, (I ed. New York 1984) Pearson College Div., New York 2004 (part III e IV).

3) Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve Alain Bois, Benjamin Buchloh, David Joselit, Art Since 1900: Modernism Antimodernism Postmodernism (I ed. London 2004) Thames & Hudson, New York 2016.

4) Denys Riout, Qu'est-ce que l'art moderne?, (english),  Folio-Gallimard, Paris 2000. 

See also: 
5) Francesco Poli, Il sistema dell'arte contemporanea, (I ed. 1999) Laterza, Bari Roma 2011 (chapter 1).