Class Art, Culture and Communication

This CU critically discusses concepts of culture in its relation to communication and the arts. From anthropological definitions of culture to sociological definitions of the cultural field as connected to artistic practices (high and low culture, mass culture, network culture), the place of these practices in contemporary interconnected societies and the power of artistic representations in both the legitimation of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic narratives is debated. The debate on the definitions of the artistic object is brought to contextualize the critical role that has been attributed to contemporary arts. Some examples of feminist and post-colonial criticism in the arts are mobilized for this purpose.

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Definitions of culture:  Anthropological notion of culture  Cultural studies, language and the media. The ‘cultural turn’: Stuart Hall and the school of Cultural Studies.  Art and feminism: The ‘art without history’ of women artists Gender representations in art Rethinking the colonial heritage: reparations policies in Europe Sociological notion of culture: cultivated, popular and mass; high and low culture;   Culture industries  The convergence of art, culture and communication: The transformations of art through technical reproducibility The contemporary media environment and the new ‘imaginary museums’.  Cultural marketing in the digital context.  Part II - Art issues  Definitions of art The contemporary art system: cultural management issues  

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