History of Visual Arts

Code:

10126C1

Acronym:

10126C1

Instance: 2011/2012 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Arquitectura (A)
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Degree in Architecture

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIARQ	55	MIARQ	1	-	3	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Objectives, Competencies and Learning Outcomes

The discipline of History of Visual Arts aims to question some of the relationship between History and Visual Arts. Because there are different methodological conceptions of art history and because many are their objects of study we seek to investigate a interpretative and critical workup about the "formation" of the “space” as generating theme of artistic experience.
Whereas the field of architecture is the space and that its images coexist with the vast territory of memory and visual culture we understood as essential to the formation of the architect to integrate the study and critical reflection of their images and representations over the times. The contents of this course being an essential understanding and articulation of ideas, concepts and methods of work with which it is possible to question the experience of space and the interpretation of their respective historical contexts and time
From cases and paradigms, the joint relation between images and texts of the History of the Arts, seeks to question the nature of relationships and transformations that make up the game of representation and creation (s) of space (s). These relationships and transformations configure a phenomenological framework in which the body's role, the technical means and the function of memory and narratives are the stuff of research in the arts and the reason for a temporal analysis, formal and expressive images and symbols.
It is important that students learn to identify the concepts, tools and working methods, and its capability of building problems as a result of the study of formal analogies or content between different spaces and different times. More than the aesthetic or stylistic identification, beyond the logic of the linear progress of history of arts, it should relate, articulate, assemble, to better interpret the anachronisms that interweave the time of the shapes and dynamics of cultural and expressive (s) space (s).

Program

Program
.
Introduction:
History of Art: conceptions of time and forms.
Objects, methods, concepts and notions of the discipline of art history.
Form, function, expression, content, style (s) and symbol.
Imitation and morphology.
Imagery and iconology.
Image and phenomenology.
Ethics, aesthetics and representation.

II.
Visual arts: real space and virtual space.
The framework. Forces, materials and production.
Value and beauty. Models and tensions.
Paths, borders, centers and verticality.
Alignment and orientation.
Space, image, symbol.

Mandatory literature

Argan Giulio Carlo; Guia de história da arte. ISBN: 972-33-0848-7
BATAILLE, Georges; The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture, New York, Zone Books,, 2009 . ISBN: 1890951560
Belting Hans; Art history after modernism. ISBN: 0-226-04185-9
Didi-Huberman Georges; Devant l.image. ISBN: 978-2-7073-1336-2
DIDI-HUBERMAN, G.; Confronting Image, Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art , Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009 . ISBN: 0271024720
ELKINS, James – ; Stories of Art, New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN: 0415939437
FOSTER, Hal; KRAUSS, Rosalind; BOIS, Yve-Alain, BUCHLOH, Benjamin ; Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism and Postmodernism, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004. ISBN: 0500238189
MANGUEL, Alberto ; Le Livre d’Images, Arles: Actes Sud, 2009. ISBN: 9782742785629
Panofsky Erwin; A perspectiva como forma simbólica. ISBN: 972-44-0886-8
PANOFSKY, Erwin ; Estudos de Iconologia. Temas Humanísticos na Arte do Renascimento, Lisboa: Editorial Estampa, [1939]1986
RIEGL, Alois ; Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts, New York, Zone Books, 2004. ISBN: 1890951455
SUMMERS, David ; Real Spaces. World Art History and the Rise of Western modernism, London: Phaidon Press, 2001. ISBN: 0714842443
WOLFFLIN, Heinrich; Principles of Art History. The problem of the Development of Style in Later Art, New York, Dover Publications, Inc., , 1950. ISBN: 0486202763
Worringer Wilhelm; Abstraction et einfuhlung
WARBURG, Aby; Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America , Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0801484359

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teaching Methods
In each teaching unit, the teacher will make oral presentations on the themes of the program, in which are contextualized practices, concepts and artistic trends from the standpoint of historical, social and cultural, always accompanied by an analysis of images and texts considered significant.

In the second semester, the academic contributions will be supplemented by presentations and critical commentary of the research works of students.

keywords

Humanities > Arts > Visual arts
Humanities > History > Art History

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Eligibility for exams

Frequency of 75% of classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Weighted average number of evaluations of the practical work of the group (50%) and the completion of a written test to evaluate knowledge gained (50%).

Examinations or Special Assignments

not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Development of a practical plan with a theme decided between the student and teacher.

Classification improvement

Final exam consisting of an oral exam for students with a grade higher than 8 on any given subject and a weighted value of 50% on the classification already obtained.