HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART - ADVANCED COURSE

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate original ideas, in a research context;

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly;

5) ability to carry out research autonomously.

Lectures

Slides and video

Possible visits to exhibitions and museums.

Part A

Pittura degli anni ’50 in Italia, exhibition catalog, Torino 2003, pp 13-50.

 

Burri: lo spazio di materia tra Europa e Usa, exhibition catalog, curated by Bruno Corà, Città di Castello 2016, pp. 18-25; pp. 50-57; pp. 72-85.

William S. Rubin, Surrealism in Exile and After, in Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage, New York 1968, pp. 159-186.

 

Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. Buchloh, David Joselit, Italian edition curated by E. Grazioli, Arte dal 1900. Modernismo, antimodernismo, postmodernismo, Bologna 2017, chapters: pp. 348-357; pp. 375-384; pp. 393-398; pp. 399-403; pp. 404-410; pp. 411-415; pp. 424-429.

 

Clement Greenberg, Clement Greenberg. L’avventura del modernismo. Antologia critica, curated by Giuseppe Di Salvatore e Luigi Fassi, Milano 2011, chapters:

•         La pittura “di tipo americano”, pp. 201-216.

•         L’America passa alla guida, 1945-1965, pp. 341-345.

 

Mark Rothko, exhibition catalog, curated by Oliver Wick, Milano 2007, pp. 5-25; pp. 33-39; pp. 57-69.

Modulo B

Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. Buchloh, David Joselit, Italian edition curated by E. Grazioli, Arte dal 1900. Modernismo, antimodernismo, postmodernismo, Bologna, 2017, i seguenti saggi: pp. 430-434; pp. 447-452; pp. 460-465; pp. 466-472; pp. 473-476; pp. 477-482; pp. 504-508; pp. 509-514; pp. 515-519; pp. 520-525; pp. 545-550; pp. 585-590

 

Giorgio De Marchis, Sandra Pinto, Due decenni di eventi artistici in Italia: 1950-70, Firenze 1970, (20 pp.).

 

Roma anni ’60: al di là della pittura, exhibition catalog, Roma 1990, chapter:

Maurizio Calvesi, Cronache e coordinate di un’avventura, pp. 11-36

Giuseppe Gatt, L’ipotesi gestaltica, pp. 39-41

Francesco Tedeschi, La Mec-art e i sui protagonisti, in Mec Art: arte oltre la fine della pittura, exhibition catalog, Milano, 2010, pp. 54-99

Flavio Fergonzi, Una nuova superficie. Jasper Johns e gli artisti italiani 1958-1966, Milano 2019 (200 pp.)

Elisa Francesconi, Tano Festa. Dalla luce all’oggetto 1956-1970, Milano 2025 (150 pp).

 

Giuliano Briganti, L’arte povera, in Il viaggiatore disincantato. Brevi saggi in due secoli d’arte moderna, Torino, 1991, pp. 256-266.

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.