Contemporary Art

Code:

AC102

Acronym:

AC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Fine Arts

Instance: 2011/2012 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Fine Arts Department
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	160	Official Study Plan 2011	1	-	3	34	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The main purpose of this course is to enrich the student’s projects and proposals throughout their program of studies in relation, particularly, to the course of Fine Arts.
Students will be encouraged to exercise interpretive reading of recent works of art. Identify and analyze the topics and themes they communicate and how.
How can practice and artistic experience contribute to build a broad understanding of contemporary art?

Specific aims: 

- Introduction to the theoretical inquire about contemporary art; 

- Introduction to key concepts that underlie the field of contemporary art; 

- Bibliographic analysis, extended to various disciplines, which helps to foster artistic thought today; 

- To challenge the excessive notion of contemporary artistic subjective practices, promoting an informed debate based on the concepts and the works presented; 

- Contribute to new thoughts and ideas.

Program

- The essence of contemporary art. 

- From the avant-garde to the neo-avant-garde age. 

- Media changes and dematerialization. 

- Purity vs. contamination. 

- The return to order the return of the real.

Mandatory literature

Foster Hal; Art since 1900. ISBN: 0-500-23818-9 69.76
Foster Hal 340; The anti-aesthetic. ISBN: 0-941920-01-1
Harrison Charles 340; Art in theory. ISBN: 0-631-22707-5
Foster Hal; The return of the real. ISBN: 0-262-56107-7
Archer Michael; Art since 1960
Krauss Rosalind E.; Passages in Modern Sculpture. ISBN: 0-262-61033-7
Parfait Françoise; Video. ISBN: 2-84105-133-1 44.40
Foster Hal; Design and Crime. ISBN: 1-85984-668-8
Buchloh Benjamin H. D.; Neo-Avangarde and culture industry. ISBN: 0-262-52347-7 31.12
Buskirk Martha; The^contingent object of contemporary art. ISBN: 0-262-52442-2
Lee Pamela M.; Chronophobia. ISBN: 0-262-12260-X 36.90
Crow Thomas; The^rise of the sixties. ISBN: 0-8109-2731-4
Kaprow Allan; Essays on the blurring of art and life. ISBN: 0-520-20562-6
Stiles Kristine; Theories and documents of contemporary art. ISBN: 0-520-20253-8
Wallis Brian 340; Art after modernism. ISBN: 0-87923-632-9
Crimp Douglas; On the museum.s ruins. ISBN: 0-262-03209-0
Krauss Rosalind; A voyage on the north sea. ISBN: 0-500-28207-2
Frascina Francis 340; Art in modern culture. ISBN: 0-7148-2840-8
Krauss Rosalind; La originalidad de la vanguardia y otros mitos modernos. ISBN: 84-206-7135-5

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	38,00
	Total:	-	0,00