Checking date: 18/05/2017

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Course: 2017/2018

Contemporary artistic movements
(13537)
Bachelor in Film, Television and Media Studies (2008 Study Plan) (Plan: 154 - Estudio: 211)


Coordinating teacher: CASTRO MORALES, FEDERICO

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: History, Geography and Art Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
None.
ObjectivesFurther information on this link
The students will learn how to: - Analyze an artistic image in its constituent elements and in the frame of the art movement(s) it belongs to. - Study a given work of art in relationship to its historical context, and understand the evolution of art and the art world in the 20th century in its major features. - Understand the cultural and symbolic values of an art piece. - Evaluate and comprehend primary sources and art history texts, in order to be able to understand the nature of artistic activities and their social, political and economic implications.
Description of contents: programme
The course analyzes Modern Art from its origins in the mid-19th Century to our days. Instead of the usual chronological order it concentrates on seven moments and major trends within Modern Art: 1. Manet and the origins of Modern Art 2. The analytical view: Picasso and the end of traditional perspective 3. The spiritual view: Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian and Abstract Art 4. The subjective view: Expressionism and Surrealism 5. The intelectual view: Duchamp, from Dada to Conceptual Art 6. The ironic view: Warhol and Pop Art 7. The critical view: Postmodernist Art
Learning activities and methodology
The seven in-class sessions will be lectures where the student is expected to participate actively in the analysis of works of art and related texts. In-class sessions account for approx. 15 hours (0.6 ECTS). Student homework accounts for approx. 45 hours (1.8 ECTS), i.e. approx. 6 weekly hours during the teaching period (weeks 1 to 7). Tutorials and writing the assignments and the final exam account for approx. 15 hours (0.6 ECTS) during weeks 8 to 11.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60

Basic Bibliography
  • BELTING, Hans. Art History after Modernism. University of Chicago Press. 2003
  • DANTO, Arthur C.. After the End of Art. Contemporary Art and the Pale of History. Princeton University Press. 1997
  • DICKIE, George. The Art Circle. A Theory of Art. Chicago Spectrum. 1997
  • FOSTER, Hal [et al.]. Art since 1900. Modernism Antimodernism Postmodernism. Thames and Hudson. 2004
  • FREELAND, Cynthia. But is it Art? An Introduction to Art Theory. Oxford University Press. 2001
  • GOMBRICH, Ernst. The Story of Art. Phaidon Press. 1995
  • JANSON, Anthony F. (et al.). Janson's History of Art. Prentice Hall. 2012

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.