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Art Theory

Objectives

Understand and contextualize the process of autonomy of art within the scope of the relation between ethics and aesthetics.

Identify the speceficity of artistic languages and the associated theory problematization.

General characterization

Code

2703

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Agnés Anne Françoise Le Gac Arinto, Rita Andreia Silva Pinto de Macedo

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 62

Teaching language

Português

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

IGNOREES E OUTROS TEXTOS DE REFERÊNCIA

ADORNO, T., 1982.

ADORNO, T., 1991.

ADORNO, T., HORKHEIMER, Max, 1997.

ARGAN, G. C., 1988.

BAUDELAIRE, 1993.

BAYER, Raymond, 1993.

BELTING, Hans, 1989.

BENJAMIN, Walter, 1992.

DAMISCH, Hubert, 1984.

DAMISCH, Hubert, 1993.

DIDI-HUBERMAN, 1990.

EAGLETON, Terry, 2000.

ECO, Umberto, 1986.

ECO, Umberto, 1989.

FERRY, Luc, 2003.

FOCILLON, H. , 2001.

GOODMAN, Nelson, 1995.

GOODMAN, Nelson, 1990.

GOMBRICH, E.H., 1990.

HAUSER, Arnold, 1978.

HEIDEGGER, Martin, 1991.

HEIDEGGER, 1998.

JAUSS, Hans Robert, 1993.

KRAUSS, Rosalind, 1996.

LYOTARD, Jean-François, 1986.

MARCUSE, H., 1999.

MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice, 1945.

MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice, 1982.

MONTEIRO, Paulo Filipe, 1996.

MOULIN, Raymonde, 1967.

MOULIN, Raymonde, 1992.

PREZIOSI, Donald, 1989.

SCHAEFFER, Jean-Maie, 1998.

VENTURI, Lionello,  1998.

WÖLFFLIN, H.,  1996.

Teaching method

Lectures supported by audiovisual materials. Seminars with presentation and discussion of key texts for understanding the main topics of the curricular unit.

Lectures are followed by students’questions and exercises aimed at developing critical abilities.

Evaluation method

Continuous assessment will have three components: a final written test, group presentation and discussion of an article,  two surprise tests  (only the one with better classification will be eligible for the final average). Final grade = mandatory written test (50%) + 1 surprise test (25%) + presentation and discussion of an article (25%)

Subject matter

1. Art Theory in Art History and Conservation of art objects.

1.1 The status of art from Greece to Contemporary period

1.2 The introduction of subjectivism. Notions of subject in modern thought

2. The role of Academies in the affirmation and legitimation of the artwork.

 2.2 Consequences of the appearance of the French Salon.

 2.2 The birth of criticism and its consequences on the legitimacy of the works. Artistic and aesthetic value.  Artistic creation and aesthetic judgment.

2.3 The Museum as the place of consecration of the work. The art market.

3. Work of art, art object and aesthetic pleasure.

4. The notions of Belo and Modernity in Baudelaire.

5. Notions of temporality in modernity. The consecration of the historic monument.

 6. The Avant-garde.

  6.1. Elites Art, mass art and anti-art.

  6.2  Naming, authorship and context.

7.  Authenticity of the artwork: true and false.

8. Art and theory in the post-World War II. The dematerialization of the art object.