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Art and Power in the Dictatorships

Objectives

1) To acquire a thorough knowledge of the main problems faced by artistic production during the first half of the 20th century, particularly in the period that runs from the end of World War I to the beginning of World War II.
2) To explain the role of painting, sculpture and architecture in the consolidation of dictatorships in Europe during the 1930s, identifying the artists´ contribution and presenting in classes examples of such activity.

General characterization

Code

722170113

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Paula Cristina Ramos Ribeiro Lobo

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

  • AAVV, Les Réalismes (1919-1939), Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1981
  • M. ACCIAIUOLI, António Ferro — A Vertigem da Palavra: Retórica, Política e Propaganda no Estado Novo, Lisboa: Bizâncio, 2013
  • M. ACCIAIUOLI, Exposições do Estado Novo: 1934-1940, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 1998
  • D. ADES, T. BENTON et al., Art and Power: Europe under the Dictators 1930-1945, London: Thames & Hudson/Hayward Gallery, 1995
  • A. ERRL, A. NUNNING et al., Media and Cultural Memory, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008
  • B. GROYS, Art Power, Cambridge Mass., London, MIT Press, 2008
  • R.O. PAXTON, L' Europe au XXe Siècle, Paris: Tallandier, 2011

Teaching method

This curricular unit is based on sessions that regularly combine an exposition component and a group debate that addresses each topic of the programme. The aim of this methodology is to deepen and to consolidate the acquired knowledge, and to ensure the students critical and active involvement in the discussion of referential texts previously selected by the teacher.

Evaluation method

Continuous Assessment - Development of an individual final essay(70%), Preparation and participation in the regular class debates(30%)

Subject matter

1) Europe at the turn of the 20th century. The avant-gardes and World War I.
2) The "return to order". Nationalisms, modernisms and propaganda. 
3) The debates on the role of artists after the Soviet Revolution of 1917. Socialist Realism and art as instrument and monument.
4) From Futurism to Italian Novecento. Fascism, arts and architecture: from national art to state art.
5) From post-war Germany to national-socialist cultural policies. Modern art, new German painting and III Reich architecture.
6) Portuguese New State, SPN and António Ferro's program. The arts at the service of an idea of country.
7) Spanish Civil War and the public opinion international mobilization. Paris International Exhibition (1937) and the symbolic confrontation of nations.
8) Portugal's representations at Paris (1937), New York and San Francisco (1939) international exhibitions.
9) The Portuguese World Exhibition (1940).
10) Lisbon's modernization and the Public Works policy.