Contemporary themes of Visual Arts - 1st semester

General characterization

Prerequisites

n.a.

Bibliography

Didi-Huberman, Georges, Devant l´image, Paris, Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1990
Foster, Hal, The Return of the Real. Art and Theory at the End of the Century, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1996
Graham, Beryl e Cook, Sarah, Rethinking Curating, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2010
Krauss, rosalind, Perpetual inventory, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2010
Manovich, Lev, The Language of New media, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2001
Mondzain, Marie José, Image, icône, économie: les sources byzantines de l’imaginaires contemporain, Paris, Seuil, 1998
Ranciére, Jacques, Le spectateur emancipé, Paris, La Fabrique, 2008
Ranciére, Jacques, The Future of the Image, Verso, 2009

Teaching method

– Theoretical and practical explanatory classes, using visual examples (photographs and video documentation)
– Discussions on the works produced by the students.
– Study visits to exhibitions and artist studios.

Evaluation method

Subject matter

Programs

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