Art Science Seminar

Code:

SCA411

Acronym:

SCA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Art Sciences

Instance: 2019/2020 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://moodle.up.pt/course/view.php?id=3681
Responsible unit:	Ciências da Arte e do Design
Course/CS Responsible:	Fine Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
AP	89	Official Study Plan 2011	4	-	6	51	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

PROF. MJG:
Syllabus  adapted to the context of the national state of emergency

Approach to some theoretical perspectives, methodologies, concepts and problems of the study area of the cultural studies, and art history in particular, whose thoughts tainted and necessarily still influence contemporary artistic practice and culture.The selection of the topics that the students will deal with ultimately depends on the teacher, but will take into account suggestions from students about the issues that most motivate them, according to their needs, gaps, challenges and research interests, within their own learning and artistic practice. Resarch, study and preparation of oral and written presentations. We intend an open dialogue, the discussion of ideas and the exchange of knowledge based on periodical presentations, duly scheduled.
These presentations will be made by sending files (pdf, video, powerpoint with notes) to the teacher, due to the context of the national state of emergency (COVID-19, pandemics)

 

Prof. H. G.

 Based on the analysis of literary works, will discuss the relationship between reality and fiction: the role of fiction in the construction of human experience? What is the relationship between imagination and the real? Can the art as fiction constitute a real transformation tool or is it just an escape space?

 

Prof. BPA

Considering the great transformations of Art in the XXth century, both historical, formal and political, we will try to analize some of the axes of theese tranformations — mainly Modernism, Pot-Modernism and Contemporary — in order to understand how each one of them consigns a new role to Art.

Learning outcomes and competences

PROF. MJG: It is intended that students become familiar with research, study and preparation of written and oral presentations, and that they master knowledge of theoretical nature and develop capacity for deep reflection and for autonomy in research. 

Prof. H. G.
It is intended that students become familiar with research, study and preparation of written and oral presentations, and that they master knowledge of theoretical nature and develop capacity for deep reflection and for autonomy in research. 

Prof B.P.A.


It is intended that students become familiar with research, study and preparation of written and oral presentations, and that they master knowledge of theoretical nature and develop capacity for deep reflection and for autonomy in research. 

Working method

Presencial

Program

PROF. MJG: The program is structured around some thematic proposals, which may be adapted to the needs and interests of students. It is therefore  not rigid, an "under construction" program. 1. Baroque and neo-baroque.  2. The gaze and the Other. From colonial subject to post-colonialism. Art, miscegenation, globalization. 3. Lesson of Darkness: Blood and beauty, the aesthetics of horrible. 4. The aesthetics of difference: sex and sexuality, representations of gender, feminism, queer theory and art history. 5. Mass culture: the revolt of art against art history. 6. Art history as fiction: the narrative of art in the new museum. 7. The museum as theme park: entertainment politics, culture, leisure and mise-en-scène techniques of exhibition. 8. The contemporary artist as a permanent recycler.  9. The Internet and the establishment of an "articulated chaos" and of "multiple simultaneous temporalities" 10. The renewed interest in the concept of masterpiece in contemporary aesthetic thought. 11. Cartoons and censorship: the power of images. 12.What happened to the notion of beauty in contemporary art?13.The return of Gothic: gothic art and contemporaneity.

 

Prof. H. G.

The fiction as the actual realization process.

It will be provided to students a list of about twenty literary works (preferably novels, but also short stories and poetry), of which each student will select a book to work.

Starting from the reading and the auxiliary bibliography, is requests to each student to present in class an analysis of the chosen work, according to its dominant issue, which have the following questions attention:

What is the image of the artist?

Which the concept of artistic creation,

Which the concept of power, memory, civilization, etc.

What is the relationship between reality and fiction:

Is it real or imaginary (fiction) the world's image here emerges?

Art is here rather than escape, construction, and manufacturing?



Prof B. P. A.


1. The Modernist Contexts

2 Rise and Fall of the Modernist Myth

3. Post-Modernism as linguistic turn

4. The Contemporary Art : Global Art and its definitions

Mandatory literature

Belting Hans; Art history after modernism. ISBN: 0-226-04185-9 28.47
Blanc Guilherme 340; We are ready for our [close-up]. ISBN: 978-989-96833-0-3
Calabrese Omar; A Idade Neobarroca
DEPARDON, Raymond e VIRILIO, Paul; Native Land – Stop Eject (cat. da expos.), Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, 2008
Foster Hal; Art since 1900. ISBN: 0-500-23818-9 69.76
Freeland Cynthia; Pero esto es arte?. ISBN: 84-376-2046-5
GECZY, Adam; Art: Histories, Theories and Exceptions, Berg Publishers, 2008
Groebner Valentin; Defaced. ISBN: 1-890951-37-4
HARRIS, Jonathan; Art History: The Key Concepts, Routledge, 2006
Harris Jonathan 340; Globalization and contemporary art. ISBN: 978-1-4051-7950-8
HARRIS, Jonathan; The New Art History. A Critical Introduction, Routledge, 2001
HOLLY, Michael Ann e MOXEY, Keith (ed. de); Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2002
Iconoclash. Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art (cat. da expos.), ZKM e Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
Koda Harold; Extreme beauty. ISBN: 0-300-10312-3
KROMM, Jane, BAKEWELL, Susan Benforado (ed.de); A History of Visual Culture: Western Civilization From The 18th To The 21st Century, Berg, 2010
Lucie-Smith Edward; L. érotisme dans l.art occidental
Mirzoeff Nicholas 340; The visual culture reader. ISBN: 0-415-14133-8
Nead Lynda; The female nude. ISBN: 0-415-02678-4
Preziosi Donald 340; The art of art history. ISBN: 0-19-284242-0
Schumm Petra 340; Barrocos y modernos
Tucherman Ieda; Breve história do corpo e de seus monstros. ISBN: 972-699-577-9

Comments from the literature

BIBLIOGRAPHY INDICATED IS FOR PROF. MJG'S CLASS

Teaching methods and learning activities

PROF. MJG: The unit operates under a regime of seminar, lasting three hours, including: Presentations of illustrations of the themes and of the main theoretical texts (student’s work). These presentations were adapted due to the termination of face-to-face classes, and will be made by sending files (pdf, video, powerpoint with notes) to the teacher, due to the context of a national state of emergency (COVID-19, pandemic). THEY MATCH THE "PRESENTIAL PARTICIPATION" COMPONENT OF THE ASSESSEMENT 

 Prof. H. G.
The unit operates under a regime of seminar, lasting three hours, including: 1. Introductory presentations by the teacher. 2. Presentations of illustrations of the themes and of the main theoretical texts (student’s work). 3. Discussions based on the information presented and on the literature of the discipline.

Docente B.P.A.

The unit operates under a regime of seminar, lasting three hours, including: 1. Introductory presentations by the teacher. 2. Presentations of illustrations of the themes and of the main theoretical texts (student’s work). 3. Discussions based on the information presented and on the literature of the discipline.

keywords

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

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	50,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	50,00
Trabalho de investigação	50,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

PROF. MJG: Attendance to classes is mandatory; there will be an attendance record.(VALID ONLY FOR THE TIME BEFORE THE PANDEMICS)

PROF H. G:Attendance to classes is mandatory; there will be an attendance record.


Prof B.P.A.

Attendance to classes is mandatory

Calculation formula of final grade

PROF. MJG: The final assessment is the result of a mandatory sum of two components: 1. (BY SENDING A FILE IN PDF, VIDEO OR POWERPOINT PRESENTATION WITH NOTES, following the schedule previously agreed with the Professor: Mandatory, 50%): a.Presentation of a theoretical text from the bibliography, on one of the topics discussed. The aim is a commented reading of the arguments used by the author(s), OR, ALTERNATIVELY: b.Presentation  on one of the themes addressed in the course. 2. (Mandatory, 50%) This pdf text is to be sent to the professor by email until 12 p.m. on JUNE 8, 2020, IMPERATIVELY: Conducting a final work that must constitute itself as a short essay (about 10 pages) on a topic of choice, appropriate to the objectives of the seminar, which is basically a theoretical reflection contextualizing the student's personal artistic practice. 

Note: There will be no intermediate grades, only a final one.

PROF. H. G. :The final assessment is the result of a mandatory sum of two components: 1.(Mandatory, 50%): . Presentation in class of a critical analysis of the chosen literary work. 2. (Mandatory, 50%): A short essay (about 10 pages), containing a critical reflection and based on the work chosen by the student.

 

Prof BPA

The final assessment is the result of a mandatory sum of two components: 1.(Mandatory, 50%): . Discussion in class of the main themesk.
2. (Mandatory, 50%): A short essay (about 5 pages), containing a critical reflection on the work chosen by the student.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

PROF. MJG: Students with special status may not attend classes but will have to undergo the same type of evaluation of the remaining students, as stated above. The final assessment is the result of a mandatory sum of the two components already described.These two components will be held and delivered in a single date, subject to the teacher's appointment, during the period for evaluations.

PROF. H. G. : IDEM

Prof. BPA

IDEM

Classification improvement

PROF. MJG: Improvement of grade, as stated in Articles 10th and 11th of the General Regulations for the Assessment of UP students, is permitted upon assessment in the same conditions of regular students. Thus, students who wish to improve their grades will have to be subject to the same type of evaluation of other students, as described above: the final assessment will be the result of the sum of the two mandatory components described. These two assessments will be held and delivered in one single date, defined by the teacher, during the period reserved for the final evaluations.

 Alternatively, improvement of grade can be obtained by fully attending the course, in accordance with Article 11th of the General Regulations for the Assessment of UP students.

H. G. : IDEM


B.P.A. IDEM

Observations

PROF. MJG: Attention to students: Mondays from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., by previous appointment by email, given the high number of students.

PROF. H. G. : IDEM


Prof. BPA
Tuesdays 14-16 by previous appointment