Unit HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Course
Archaeology and history of art
Study-unit Code
GP003441
Curriculum
Generico
Teacher
Stefania Petrillo
Teachers
  • Stefania Petrillo
Hours
  • 36 ore - Stefania Petrillo
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2019
Offered
2020/21
Learning activities
Affine/integrativa
Area
Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline
L-ART/03
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian language
Contents
From the Academy to the atelier: the craft of the artist in the XIXth century.
Protagonists, practices, circuits.
Reference texts
For attending students:

R. Esner, S. Kisters, A. Lehmann (a cura di), Hiding Making - Showing Creation: The Studio from Turner to Tacita Dean. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 9-106 (cfr. www.jstor.org/ si accede con le credenziali di ateneo).

F. Giacomini, Lo studio di Vincenzo Camuccini in via de’ Greci, in “La pittura di storia in Italia, atti del convegno (Roma, 2008), a cura di G. Capitelli, C. Mazzarelli, Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana Editoriale, 2008, pp. 46-57.

W. Hofman, L’Atelier. Courbet, l’Ottocento e il quadro del secolo, Donzelli, 2012.
Educational objectives

1. To know the dynamics of artistic activity in the nineteenth century and the relationships between schools, artist studios, the public and critics.
2. To set up the analysis of phenomena according to a correct methodological and historical-critical perspective.
Prerequisites

The knowledge of the fundamentals of Nineteenth-Century Art History.
Teaching methods

Face-to-face with audiovisual material
Practical training
Seminar lectures
Field trips
Other information

Attendance is highly recommended for students who graduate in Archeology and Art History.
Learning verification modality

Paper
(max 15,000 characters bibliography included) with an in-depth analysis on a topic of the course to be agreed with the teacher and to be presented as part of a seminar organized "in itinere".

Oral examination
The test, lasting about 30 minutes, includes questions on the topics covered in class starting from the recognition of the works, and a discussion on the texts indicated in the bibliography.

The ability to organize, rework and expose the contents appropriately through an adequate reading of the works will be verified.


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Extended program

Through the analysis of visual and written sources, the phases of the artist's training, the organization of the work, the self-representation in the various historical and cultural contexts, the interactions with collectors and critics will be deepened.
Protagonists and themes:
The training, production and teaching of Tommaso Minardi between private study and academy.
Ingres and his school.
"Closing the academies and opening the museums": in the Courbet atelier between reality and metaphor.
Rejected and independent: the artists against the academy (1860-80).
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