Art Criticism

Code:

CA401

Acronym:

CA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Arts

Instance: 2022/2023 - 2S

Active?	Yes
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	10	Plano de estudos de LAP_publicaçao em DR de 24/05/2021	4	-	6	45	160

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Learning outcomes and competences

The curricular unit of Art Criticism aims to investigate the mechanisms of formation of the critical reception, in a permanent critical referral relation for its objects. The objective is to define the dynamic relationship between the producer, the specialized receiver (the critic) and the unskilled receiver.

Working method

Presencial

Program

We will take as a privileged starting point the authors and artists who emerge and configure Modernism (from the first decades of the twentieth century), opening to the diachronic questioning of Modernism and the emergence of contemporaneity and the various ways that define it both at the level. of artistic production, and at the level of critical discourse. It is not intended to make an exhaustive reading of movements and critical approaches, but to identify the movements of continuity or rupture at the level of artistic practices and their correlates at the level of the formulation of critical reception devices. Program Items: 1 - Critical reception as a constituent relation between the work and the artistic experience. 2 - Art criticism as a place of mediation: a) Mediation and neutrality - problematization; b) Subjectivity and objectivity - problematization; c) The quality of mediation: quality criteria of the critical text. 3 - Critical instruments: devices and procedures: the moments of critical reception work: - Contextualize; - To describe; - To interpret; - To evaluate. 4 - Artistic production as an act of production of implicit or explicit critical devices. a) Marcel Duchamp and the critical self-reconfiguration of his work. b) Joseph Kosuth and the programmatic production of the critical reception context. 5 - Experience and interpretation, and evaluation: a) How to say an image (what to say of an image)? b) Sense and visual experience - problematization; c) evaluation criteria; 6 - From Modernism to Postmodernism: the aporias of contemporaneity.

Mandatory literature

Barrett Terry; Criticizing art. ISBN: 0-07-115034-X
Danto Arthur C.; Beyond the brillo box. ISBN: 0-520-21674-1

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lecture.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	5,00
Total:	5,00

Eligibility for exams

Examen.

Calculation formula of final grade

Evaluation criteria (interdependent):
- Scientific and conceptual rigor;
- critical distance;
- Specific knowledge demonstrated;
- Conceptual creativity.