CONTEMPORARY ART (ADVANCED)II

Knowledge of contemporary art history, through the analysis of avant-garde movements, main contemporary artists and works of art, paying particular attention to the "art system" and connections between history and art history, to relationships between culture and arts.
The course is one of the fundamentals of the contemporary path; in particular this module is the first part of History of Contemporary Art sp (12 cfu) for the History of Arts Master's degree, which should be completed with Contemporary Art I (prof. Burini).
Arte contemporanea II can also be attended as a single course for every Master's degree or for Erasmus program, as 6 cfu module.

- knowledge and understanding: knowledge of terminology; knowledge of main artists' poetic and works of art, groups and movements in the field of visual arts;
- ability to apply knowledge and understanding: knowledge of how to use a precise terminology and ability to recognize main artists and works of art specified on the program, formulating an explanatory and argumentative exposure about artists' works and poetics;
- ability to understand: how to analyze a work of art or an artist's poetry or a group / movement among the studied ones, relating them to a correct temporal and cultural collocation; to be able to argue with property of language and correct formal analysis;
- communication skills: knowing how to use an appropriate and specific terminology, introduced and explained at lesson or on recommended texts and books; apply a good Italian (or English) syntax and grammar; being able to behave in a respectful and profitable way with professors and peers;
- learning skills: being able to recognize the fundamental protagonists of the arts of the XX and XXI Century; being able to understand how to connect a work of art or an author to cultural and artistic movements / groups or to a specific cultural moment, making comparisons between different themes based on thematic, formal, poetic bases.

recommended but not indispensable knowledge of contemporary art history, particularly basics on avantgarde artistic groups (a short review will be presented at lesson)

27 rue Fleurus: An Autobiography of Alice Toklas in Paris, Between Exoticism and Primitivism.

This course deals with the disquiet visitors would have felt seeing the paintings in Gertrude Stein's collection in Paris around 1903-1914, it is about Cézanne, Matisse, Gauguin, Vallotton, Toulouse-Lautrec and the portrait Picasso painted for her after 90 posing sessions, which did not resemble her, but which she would have resembled to, in the future.
Through the 'vivid memory' of Alice Toklas (or the person hidden under this name), the contribution of primitivism and exoticism on the avant-garde will be investigated, as well as why "everyone found the Futurists rather boring".

:: bibliography for examination will follow ::

suggested reading, between others, from:
Gertrude Stein, Autobiografia di Alice Toklas, traduzione di Cesare Pavese, Einaudi (in qualsiasi edizione, dal 2003) o
Gertrude Stein, Autobiografia di Alice B. Toklas, traduzione a cura di Alessandra Sarchi, Marsilio, Venezia 2021
Gertrude Stein, Picasso, traduzione di Vivianne Di Maio, Piccola Biblioteca Adelphi (in qualsiasi edizione)
M.G. Messina, Le muse d'oltremare. Esotismo e primitivismo dell'arte contemporanea, Einaudi, Torino 1994

written examination composed by four questions on the general program, specifically on bibliography and lessons

frontal lessons with images projections, readings, revisions with students, case studies, possible lectures and visits to museums or exibitions

Italian

Non attendant students can ask advices on the examination program.

written

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development