History and Theories of Sculpture

Code:

HTE01

Acronym:

HTE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Fine Arts

Instance: 2024/2025 - 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	17	Plano de estudos de LAP_publicaçao em DR de 24/05/2021	2	-	3	30	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

i - Taking into consideration the artistic practices, to promote and consolidate knowledge regarding the last century’s art: installation, performance, site-specific and public art, emphasizing the master pieces and authors which greatly influenced the practice and thinking of the contemporary culture.

ii – To promote and consolidate critical assessment skills directed to the most emblematic movements that occurred in the United States of America and South America during the second half of the twentieth century and following decades. Movements and main protagonists, master pieces and authors in economical, cultural, and political contexts.

 iii – To promote and consolidate, whenever necessary, more comprehensive knowledge in the context of Art History (broad sense) with incidence in the practice of sculpture, privileging the study of cases (works and authors) of unavoidable notoriety, namely in the aspects related to the production of works in a civilizational (intercultural) context.

iv – To instigate students using tools that value their potential as researchers.

Learning outcomes and competences

Analysis of critical texts.
Ability to write a critical text.
Competency research.

Working method

Presencial

Program

i - The turn of the century. The Last Futuristic Exhibition 0.10 and the Revolution of 1917

ii – The Interwar Period. Ready-made and DADA.

iii - The "white cube" and the advent of installation.

iv - Exhibition transformations from the museum space to the notion of site-specific.

v - Object, installation and performance. The spatialization of time: narrative, image and intermediality.

vi - Land art, and other forms of intervention in the landscape.

vii - Public Art. Context and situation in contemporary artistic practice.

Mandatory literature

Kastner Jeffrey 340; Land and environmental art. ISBN: 0-7148-3514-5
Matzner Florian 340; Public Art. ISBN: 3-7757-9148-5
O.Odoherty Brian; Inside the white cube. ISBN: 0-520-22040-4
Crimp Douglas; On the museum.s ruins. ISBN: 0-262-03209-0
Rosenthal Mark; Understanding installation art. ISBN: 3-7913-2984-7
Lefebvre Henri; The^Production of space. ISBN: 0-631-18177-6
Krauss Rosalind E.; Passages in Modern Sculpture. ISBN: 0-262-61033-7
Krauss Rosalind; Caminhos da escultura moderna. ISBN: 85-336-0958-2
Kwon Miwon; One Place After Another. ISBN: 0-262-11265-5 38.61
Oliveira Nicolas de; Installation art. ISBN: 0-500-27828-8
Andrew Causey; Sculpture since 1945. ISBN: 0-19-284205-6
Thierry De Duve; The^definitively unfinished Marcel Duchamp. ISBN: 0-262-04117-0 72.60
Simon Marchan Fiz; Del^arte objetual al arte de concepto. ISBN: 84-7600-105-3
Jean-François Lyotard; The^Postmodern condition. ISBN: 978-0-7190-1450-5

Complementary Bibliography

Cross Susan 080; Bruce Nauman. ISBN: 0-892-07299-7 35.75
Judd Donald 040; Donald Judd
Oliveira Nicolas de; Installation art in the new millennium. ISBN: 0-500-23808-1
Serra Richard 040; Richard Serra
Richard Serra; Writings interviews. ISBN: 0-226-74880-4

Teaching methods and learning activities

The methodology used in teaching processes in theoretical classes supported by images and critical texts relevant to the issues under consideration.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	40,00
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	4,00
Estudo autónomo	17,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Trabalho de investigação	20,00
Trabalho escrito	10,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Class reports according to the content covered.

Research work guided by the professor, to be presented at the end of the semester, according to the student's proposal.

Participation in discussions of the topics presented.

 

Calculation formula of final grade

The calculation of the final classification is done by considering a critical analysis text on the developed subjects, a thematic presentation in class, and the participation in classes throughout the semester (in percentages of 40%, 40%, and 20% respectively).

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Test with access to reference readings. The student can opt for continuous evaluation by submitting the requested elements and for attending the Test, with the highest classification being valid for the purposes of the final score.