Class Art, Culture and Communication

This CU discusses the concepts of culture in relation to communication and the arts. From the anthropological definition of culture to sociological definitions linked to artistic practices (high and low culture, mass culture, network culture), it debates the place of these practices in contemporary interconnected societies and the power of artistic representations in legitimising narratives, both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic. The definitions of the artistic object itself serve to contextualise the critical role that has been attributed to contemporary arts, such as feminism and post-colonialism.

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PART I 1. Definitions of culture 1.1. Anthropological notion of culture 1.2. Cultural studies, language and media 1.2.1. The “cultural turn”: Stuart Hall and the school of Cultural Studies 1.2.2. Art and feminism: The “art without history” of women artists 1.2.3. Representations of gender in art 1.2.4. Rethinking colonial heritage: policies of reparation in Europe 1.3. Sociological concept of culture: cultivated, popular and mass culture, high and low culture 1.4. The culture industries 2. The convergence of art, culture and communication 2.1. The transformations of art through technical reproducibility 2.2. The contemporary media environment and the new “imaginary museums” 2.3. “Cultural marketing” in the digital context PART II 1. Definitions of art 2. The contemporary art system: issues of cultural management

Use of materials in different formats to illustrate theoretical issues.

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