Insegnamento a.a. 2020-2021

• This course encourages students to critically investigate such key issues as: the status of the image and of representation; the nature of artistic creativity; the significance and implications of critical analysis and interpretation of the visual, particularly in relation to modernity.
• The course examines artworks across a variety of media, as well as artists’ writings; and it requires students to engage with a diverse range of secondary literature (historical and critical essays, biographies, literary texts, philosophical essays, etc.).
• The research and learning aims shared by the four classes may be pursued via different topics and teaching techniques, dependent on the specific expertise and research agenda of individual members of the teaching team.
  

• Demonstrate conceptual awareness of the complex aesthetic and cultural status of images and artefacts.
• Understand the complexity of the notion of ‘representation’, particularly in relation to modernity.
• Grasp and navigate a wide range of approaches to the study of the visual arts.

• Interact and engage critically with a wide range of artworks.
• Speak and write articulately about a variety of theoretical issues underpinning the study of the visual arts.
• Articulate the significance of the visual arts and of artistic knowledge for our understanding of current societies and cultures.
• Apply such knowledge and skills to different areas/tasks of arts management.

• Face-to-face lectures
• Online lectures
• Company visits
• Interactive class activities (role playing, business game, simulation, online forum, instant polls)

This course combines traditional frontal teaching (lectures) with seminar-based activities. If this is possible (given the ongoing health emergency), the course will also comprise on–site visits to relevant art collections, institutions and/or exhibitions. Visual analysis and critical thinking play a central role: image or text–based exercises are assigned throughout the course. Students are expected to participate in class discussions.

Attending students are required to take an oral exam at the end of the course (100% of the grade). This exam gives students an opportunity to demonstrate their ability to engage critically with visual and textual evidence, formulating well-grounded arguments about artworks; it also aims to assess student understanding of and familiarity with a wide range of approaches to the visual arts.

Non-attending students will be examined through an oral examination at the end of the course (100% of the overall grade).

The exam aims to assess student understanding of the key conceptual and theoretical issues addressed by the assigned readings; the ability of non-attending students to provide critical accounts of textual arguments about images and their history; and their capacity to engage with and discuss a wide range of artefacts.

Attending students are required to read a comprehensive reading list, which includes articles, book chapters and critical essays relevant to each class topic. The complete reading list is made available to students on the first day of class, and - where possible - readings are made available on Course Reserve at the library (online and/or off line).

Non-attending students are required to read the following books:

• D. ARASSE, Take a Closer Look, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2013.
• J. BERGER, Ways of Seeing, New York, Penguin Books 1972 (or later editions).

L’allievo è introdotto ai temi dello statuto della figura e dell’immagine, alla questione della creatività artistica, ai problemi del pensiero e della ricerca critica nel campo delle arti della visione, muovendosi, in particolare, attorno alla questione della modernità e dei suoi esiti novecenteschi e contemporanei. I materiali di studio sono costituiti da testi di artisti e di pensatori, da opere d’arte, da saggi critici, storici e biografici, da compendi manualistici di inquadramento generale e da filmati. Gli obiettivi didattici e di ricerca comuni alle quattro classi possono essere perseguiti con modalità e scelte tematiche differenti a seconda delle competenze specialistiche e dei percorsi individuali di ricerca dei diversi docenti impegnati.

• Comprendere la logica della creazione artistica e dell'opera d'arte.
• Saper leggere e interpretare singole opere, alla luce innanzitutto del pensiero e della pratica di alcuni grandi artisti della modernita' e della contemporaneita'.

Sviluppare un senso critico e un "pensiero" che lo aiutino ad operare, con un gusto educato ai principi estetici, nei vari settori del management dell'arte e della cultura.

• Lezioni frontali
• Testimonianze (in aula o a distanza)
• Visite esterne organizzate
• Lavori/Assignment individuali

Oltre alle lezioni frontali l’insegnamento prevede delle esercitazioni volte a sperimentare direttamente su alcune opere d'arte i concetti analitici appresi. Tale metodo intende far comprendere allo studente come un "discorso sull'arte" possa essere fondatamente condotto solo se si impara a seguire e ad ascoltare l'esperienza di coloro che sono direttamente coinvolti nella creazione artistica. Lezioni e esercitazioni sono organizzate in modo che vi sia una forte interazione con gli allievi. A richiesta possono essere organizzati ricevimenti di gruppo. Sono previste visite a musei e a istituzioni culturali, sulla base delle quali lo studente può elaborare un breve testo da presentare all'esame finale.

Materiali didattici

STUDENTI FREQUENTANTI

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