Teaching code

4S02170

Teacher

Valerio Terraroli

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• The History of Contemporary Art (i) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Humanities
• History of Contemporary Art (i+p) - I MODULO PARTE (I) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Humanities

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-ART/03 - HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Period

Sem 1A dal Sep 23, 2019 al Oct 31, 2019.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

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Learning outcomes

The educational objectives of the teaching are the acquisition of historical-artistic skills, methodological tools and critical, technical and interpretative terminologies relating to the development of art history from the end of the eighteenth century to contemporary art.
The student must also acquire specific terminology and general knowledge of critical sources and the development of the history of art criticism and methodologies related to the analysis of contemporary art.

Program

The program starts from the poetics of classicism and the Sublime of the second half of the eighteenth century to arrive at the artistic events of the last few years.
Topics:
Eighteenth-century classicism (sources, archaeological excavations, the personalities of Piranesi, Ledoux, Boullé, Mengs and Canova, David, the Napoleonic patronage)
Sublime and Picturesque (sources; Fuessli, Friedrich, Constable, Turner, Blake)
Proto-romanticism (Goya, Gros, Gericault, Nazareni)
Historical Romanticism (sources; Delacroix, Hayez, Bartolini's purism, eclectic architecture, Violett Le Duc)
The naturalistic current (Corot, the Barbizon school, the Posillipo school, Courbet, Manet, the Impressionist group, Cézanne, Tuscan Macchiaioli, Scapigliatura)
Post-impressionism (Seurat, Signac, Cross, the Pont Aven group, Gauguin and Van Gogh, the Italian divisionists)
European symbolism (see monographic program)
The sculpture between naturalism and symbolism (Rodin, Vela, Troubetskoy, Grandi, Medardo Rosso)
International modernism and the various national variations
The historical avant-gardes (Fauves, Expressionism Die Bruecke, Cubism, Futurism, Russian cubo-futurists, rayists, supremacists, Dadaists, abstract artists)
The first post-war period (arts déco, the "return to order", metaphysics, surrealists, new objectivity, “Novecento” Group, De Stijll)
The second post-war period (Informal from Pollock to Burri and Fontana)
The movements of the sixties and seventies: pop art, conceptual art, land art, body art and performance.
Latest trends in the contemporary area.

Examination Methods

The exam consists of an oral interview on the works, on the artistic personalities and on the various problems, also theoretical, of the stroia of contemporary art

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and in accordance with the University of Verona guidelines, during ​the 2020 summer session the assessment modality will be modified as follows: online oral exam.