Class Contemporary Artistic Perspectives V

Anthropological, cultural, aesthetic and political study of forms and images in the history of the West from the perspective of the present.

Not applicable

Considerations on contemporary art The artist, the system the contemporary art and its agents and spaces. Themes and contemporary issues. Art for the art, political art, institutional critique, western and non-western art everyday life in contemporary art, ready-made, objet trouvé and ownership. Painting. Figurative painting, abstract, site-specific painting and painting in expanded field. Escultura, escultura site-specific e escultura em campo expandido. Sculpture, site-specific sculpture and sculpture in expanded field. Photographic practices Documentary photography, abstract photography, the expanded field of photography, the relationship of photography with painting with sculpture and performance. The performing arts Performance art, Happening e Body Art, The relation performance art with the performing arts (theater, dance, music), poetry, cinema and the visual arts. Video Art and Performance. Between creating and the documentation.

Classes based on viewing audiovisual works of contemporary art.

BARTHES, Roland, A Câmara Clara, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1998 BAUDELAIRE, Charles, O Pintor da Vida Moderna, Lisboa, Vega, 2004 BENJAMIN, Walter, Rua de Sentido Único e Infância em Berlim por volta de 1900, Lisboa, Relógio d¿Água, 1992 DUCHAMP, Marcel, CABANNE, Pierre, O Engenheiro do Tempo Perdido, Lisboa, Assírio e Alvim, 1990 KRAUSS, Rosalind, O Fotográfico, Barcelona, Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2002 MORIN, Edgar, Cinema ou O Homem Imaginário, Lisboa, Relógio dÁgua, 1997