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Class Contemporary Art

  • Presentation

    Presentation

    It is increasingly difficult to talk about "art" in the singular, because it has been disappearing its specificity as a means as well as the boundaries which separated the artistic object from other objects. Speaking of the 'arts' in the plural correspond to recognize that in contemporary times, the arts have escaped  the categories and codes that delimited them, while they spread throughout the whole experience. The reasons for this are multiple, including technological and cultural order. The apprehension of this phenomenon goes, first, by understanding the place of art in modern times and its subsequent trajectories, since modernism and the avant-garde until the so-called as post-avant-garde. Second, you  need to map the main forms of contemporary art, with particular attention to how broke through to and / or expanded their historical contex.

  • Code

    Code

    ULHT24-6268
  • Syllabus

    Syllabus

    1. Introduction: the plurality of contemporary arts as a problem

    The notion of Contemporary and the priority of the «Actual»

    The hypothesis of the end of art: the crisis of mimesis and the linear perspective of History

     

    2. Objects

    Duchamp's rupture: the creative act, the ready-made and the the infra-mince

    Collecting, appropriation, the archive and the post-production culture

     

    3. Body

    Fluxus, body art, happenings and performances

    The biologization of the arts

     

    4. Space

    The Installation as a new art space

    From land-art to network arts

     

    5. Machines

    Cyber Arts: control, interactivity and intelligent environments

    From new media art to software as avant-garde: case studies of net.art and glitch art

     

    6. Ecology

    The Earth as an object and the aesthetics of systems

    Materialities, atmospheres and climatologies in the Anthropocene era

    Archaeologies of the future and post-human perspectives on art

  • Objectives

    Objectives

    1. Recognize the various agent which constitute the system of contemporary art, the various expositive space and spaces for the presentation of artistic creations,
    2. Know the artist playing field, the different practices and artistic areas of intervention,
    3. Know the different themes and contemporary issues.

     

  • Teaching methodologies and assessment

    Teaching methodologies and assessment

    Carrying out study visits to galleries or museums.

    Invitations to artists from the contemporary arts scene.

  • References

    References

     

     Arthur C. Danto (1997) - After the end of art. Contemporary art and the pale of history, Princeton/New Jersey, Princeton University Press.

    Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (2000) - Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry. Essays On European and American Art from 1955 to 1975, Cambridge/Londres, The Mit Press.

    Charles Baudelaire (1860) - Le Peintre da la Vie Moderne (trad. portuguesa O Pintor da Vida Moderna, edição de Maria Teresa Cruz, Lisboa, Vega.

    Clement Greenberg (1961) - Arte y Cultura. Ensayos Criticos (or. Art and Culture. Critical Essays) Barcelona, G. Gili, 1979.

    Diana Domingues (org.) - A Arte no Século XXI: A Humanização das Tecnologias, São Paulo, Unesp, 1997.

    Frank Popper (1993) - Art of the Electronic Age, Londres, Thames and Hudson.

    Gregory Battcock (1968) - Minimal Art. A Critical Anthology, Berkeley, California U.P., 1995.

    Hal Foster (1996) - The Return of the Real. The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century, Mass., M.I.T. Press.

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