MODERN HISTORY 3

Course Title: Arts and politics in the age of the Enlightenment

Paris in the mid-eighteenth century, the encyclopedists launched a major campaign for a radical redefinition of the public dimension of all the arts "imagination." Before the music (1752-1754) and then the theater (1757-1759); immediately after the novels (1761-1762). Finally, he came the turn of the visual arts (1759-1781).
Their intent was to expose the link between prejudice and hierarchies of the political and social system of their time and those that d'Alembert called the 'literary superstition. " An all-out political battle, long misunderstood by the artistic critique of idealistic matrix, is here brought back to its original meaning: the time and historical place in which it took place.

At the end of the course the student will have to demonstrate a) knowing how to articulate a coherent historical context of the events and debates that are at the origin of the illuministic cultural revolution, turning point of the birth of the contemporary world; b) ability to recognize the different typologies of historiographic research in relation to the different historical and artistic sources considered, hence c) to be able to adequately comment on the complexity of classroom (visual and written) sources, d) to show a job Aware of the historiographic categories used during the lessons; d) the ability to initiate in-depth studies and reflections on specific cases related to the subject of the course.

The course is structured on the learning needs of students of the curriculum "political-international", but can be attended (as a test of free choice) from all students of the LCSL C.o.S.

By using the historical method and investigating the cultural artistic objects of the case, the course reconstructs the role of the mans of Enlightenment in a twenty-year cultural dispute, which was first and foremost political, and only in the second instance of artistic, theatrical, literary. And this even though revolved entirely on painting, music, drama, the novel

ATTENDING STUDENTS:
a) lesson's notes; b) the book:

* G. TOCCHINI, Arte e politica nella cultura dei Lumi. Diderot, Rousseau e la critica dell'antico regime artistico, Roma, Carocci, 2016

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS:

the book:

* G. TOCCHINI, Arte e politica nella cultura dei Lumi. Diderot, Rousseau e la critica dell'antico regime artistico, Roma, Carocci, 2016

+ TWO books in this list, at your own choice:

* V. FERRONE, Lezioni illuministiche, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2010
* J. PROUST, Diderot et l’Encyclopédie, Colin, Paris 1962
* G. SABATIER, Le prince et les arts. Stratégies figuratives de la monarchie française de la Renaissance aux Lumières, Champ Vallon, Seyssel 2010
* G. TOCCHINI, Su Greuze e Rousseau. Politica delle élite, romanzo e committenza d'arte nella tarda età dei Lumi
* R. WRIGLEY, The Origins of French Art Criticism. From the Ancien Régime to the Restoration, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993

The oral test, with an average duration of about 20 minutes, will focus on at least two topics covered in the lectures and aims to a cross-check of the student's preparation and his presentation skills and coordination of the themes of the course, its connecting skills between different topics.

In the conduct of the oral examination, students must demonstrate a) to be able to articulate a coherent historical overview of the events and debates that are at the origin of the cultural revolution of the Enlightenment, the turning point of the birth of the contemporary world; b) ability to recognize the different types of historical research in relation to the different historical and artistic sources examined, therefore, c) to be able to comment adequately on the complex of historical sources (visual and written) analyzed in class, d) show a job aware of the historiographical categories used in the lectures; d) the ability to run independently insights and reflections on specific cases related to the class.

15 frontal lessons, with iconology an multimedial

Italian

Students attending will be required to print and bring to class a hard copy of the text to be read during the lessons, downloadable in pdf teacher's web page by following the path > Didattica > Materiale I.S.A. [file: StModerna3 testi 2023.pdf]

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development