History of Art and Visual Culture IV

Presentation

The course of Art History IV aims to follow the contents of Art History III, but deepening the themes through critical texts, or texts written by the artists about their own practice. It is intended that the student acquires the knowledge about the artistic practices developed from the second half of the twentieth century, recognizing its processes and results, as well as its theoretical foundation and validation. It is also proposed that the student can use the knowledge and contents of Art History in order to be able to use this connection in his or her individual work practice.

Part of this Programme

Visual Arts

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

| Semestral | 3

Year | Type of course unit | Language

2 |Mandatory |Português

Code

ULHT722-17313

Recommended complementary curricular units

N. a.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

n/a

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

1- Comparative reading of various artistic movements of the twentieth century:

• Writings of artists; methodology of investigation in Art and visual culture.
• Analysis applied to the practice of artistic manifestations, genres or types of artistic object.

2 - Contemporary art, culture and visual thinking. Image culture in the arts.

• Artistic vanguards, neo-vanguardisms;
• Realisms in the contemporary arts;
• Activist art; urban art;

3 - Strategies and processes of pictorial construction:

• illusion, appropriation, manipulation, photomontage, collage, duplication, serialization, ready-made, assembly and others.

4 - Image, documentation and file systems;

• Classification systems; atlases of images and other forms of archiving;
• Thinking from, through images, about and with images;
• Reflective practice on images produced within the framework of an artistic project.

Objectives

This course aims to make the student:

• recognize the culture of images and contemporary artistic practices; be able to use this connection in his or her individual work practice; 

• get the ability to produce and relate ideas through images as well to think through images and think about images;

• gain awareness about the culture of images, questioning contexts of production, provenance, devices, media, creation, appropriation, manipulation, circulation, dissemination and archiving;

• have research and production skills in the contemporary field of images that occupy a prominent place in the students' individual artistic projects.

   

Teaching methodologies and assessment

The classes are interactive, aiming for a dynamic teacher/student relationship. The various themes are studied in advance and debated in class, where the teacher will expose the theme of the lesson in more depth.

Several works will be presented, which may include those of the students themselves, for analysis and criticism, according to their own methodology.

There will be a continuous monitoring of the semester's work, attendance, participation and motivation.

- In the middle of semester, present the first research work

- End of semester: present the second research work

Final grade: attendance, participation - 10%; exercises of historical analysis of artistic works 20%; exercises on strategies, construction processes and techniques of images 20% Personal project involving the artistic practice of the student with reflexive analysis 50%: project involving the syllabus contents regarding strategies, techniques, processes in articulation with different periods of the history of the art.

References

• ARGAN, Giulio Carlo - Arte Moderna: do Iluminismo aos Movimentos Contemporâneos. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1992.
• EDWARDS, Steve; Wood, Paul - Art & Visual Culture 1850-2010. Modernity to Globalization. London: The Open University, 2013.
• GARDNER, Helen; DE LA CROIX, Horst (rev.); TANSEY, Richard (rev.) - Art Through the Ages. 7ª ed. New York: Harcourt Brace And Company, 1980.
• GOMBRICH, Ernst - A História da Arte. Rio de Janeiro: LTC, 2009.
• HARRISON, Charles; WOOD, Paul (ed.) - Art in theory 1900-2000. An Anthology of changing ideas. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 2002.
• HUYGHE, René - Sentido e Destino da Arte. Lisboa: Edições 70, 2 vols, 1986.
• LUCIE-SMITH, Edward - Movements in Art since 1945. 4^rd ed. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
• MIRZOEFF, Nicholas - The Visual Culture Reader. London; New York: Routledge, 2002.
• STILES, Kristine; SELZ, Peter (ed.) - Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles/ London: University of California Press, 1996.

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