Class Visual Culture

Anthropological, cultural, aesthetic and political study of forms and images in the history of the images and forms in the western world until our days. 

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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

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