Class History of Art and Visual Culture V

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.

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1st. Introduction: Presentation of the course, projects and valuation rules 1.1. General notions of art and visual culture 1.2. Brief historical review of European and American cultures in the twentieth century 1.3. Presentation, analysis and discussion of the notions of modernity and contemporaneity 2nd. Visual Culture 2.1. Detailed examination of issues related to the notion of culture 2.2. The original culture and cultural diversity 2.3. The culture and images 2.4. Centralities of cultural irradiation: The agony of European artistic culture and the development of American visual culture 3rd. Modern and Contemporary Art 3.1. Detailed examination of issues related to the notion of art 3.2. Modernity and the vanguards: the action and fleeting break with tradition 3.3. The contemporaneity: the neo-avant-garde to Postmodernism 3.4. The contemporary and functional outcomes 4th. Visual Communication 4.1. Mass communication and visual communication

Participation whenever appropriate in the Great Artists on Campus cycle. And the comparative analysis of the sessions in the classroom space.

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.