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Networks and artistic transfers in Southern Europe (1870-1918)

Objectives

1. To understand the artistic production from the perspective of networks, contacts, circulation and cultural transfers;
2. To master the main theoretical and historiographical references that support this perspective and its associated debates (namely those steamming from post-colonial theory, from the turn down of Eurocentric narratives, and from the revision of concepts as artisitc influence, identity or periphery);
3. To know the artistic production from Southern Europe from the academies to the avant-garde based on the analysis of Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Greek examples;
4. To map and analyse networks and artistic transfers in Southern Europe;
5. To map and analyse networks and artistic transferes between Southern Europe and other parts of the globe (not only center and northen Europe, but also territories like the colonies and ex-colonies);
6. To ponder course contents over a written research essay.

General characterization

Code

722061108

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Joana Esteves da Cunha Leal

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

see bibliography above

Teaching method

Lectures given by the teachers, followed by the discussion of pre-appointed texts (an anthology is made available in FCSH digital platform). There will also be a final presentation and discussion in class of the research essay related to course contents written by each student (15-18 pags).

Evaluation method

Evaluation method

1) seminar discussion on classes based on pre-appointed texts and presentation and discussion of the final essay - 40.0%

2) written research essay - 60.0%

Subject matter

1) Art history between the geography of art and post-colonial theory: the crisis of Eurocentric narratives and global art history;
2) The center-periphery debate and the paradoxical place of Southern Europe in it;
3) National art historiographies and the troublesome transnacional approaches to artistic networks and transfers;
4) Networks and maps: some questions around digital humanities


Case studies:


1. Avant-Garde's circulation and transfers. Amadeo de Souza Cardoso and the artistic colonies in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century.


2. Noucentisme's cult of classicism and the Mediterranean and the Iberian reception of Cubism.


3. The local Avant-Garde. Orpheu's  Lisbon. Barcelona as a center of artistic production and dissemination. The  íntegros Painters exhibition in Madrid.


4. Circulation and artistic transfers in the period of the Great War. The Corporation Nouvelle network and the Ballets Russes circuit.


5. The Contemporânea magazine project and the roots of  SPN: Iberian complicities and transatlantic reverberations.


6. Almada Negreiros: transfers and displacements between the arts. Almada in Madrid.


7. Cosmopolitanism, primitivism and nationalism. Artistic networks and modernist landscape painting by Joan Miró, Eduardo Viana and Dominguez Alvarez