Class History of Art and Visual Culture IV

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.

Description of contents:

1 - From the end of the 19th century to the first decade of the 20th century:

Photography and Cinema

Impressionism

Symbolism and the Pre-Raphaelite movement;

Neo-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism

Art Nouveau

2 - The first artistic vanguards:

Cubism and Futurism.

Abstractionism.

Russian Constructivism and the Bauhaus.

Dadaism.

Surrealism.

3 - Art in the second half of the 20th century - Contexts, paradigms, processes, materializations and practices

Nouveau Realism and Pop Art

Happening, Performance, Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, Land Art, Procedural Art.

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;

Images, documentaries and support materials for the U. C available at Moodle platform.

Classes are interactive, aiming at a dynamic relationship between teacher and student. The various themes are studied in advance and discussed in class, where the teacher will explain the theme of the class in more depth.

• 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.