Sources, Models and Languages of Contemporary Art
A.Y. 2022/2023
Learning objectives
The course aims to illustrate the fundamental chronology and the essential methodological perspectives in the study of the history of art from late XVIII c. till today. Students will be introduced to the most important art tendencies and to the work of prominent artists, in order to direct their personal study of the textbooks and the appraisal of the works of art exhibited in the main public museums of Milan.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding: In-depth knowledge of the main authors and most important lines of developments in visual arts from Neoclassicism until today (painting and sculpture).
Applying knowledge and understanding: Acquiring primary historical and critical skills and methods for the study, interpretation and analysis of exemplary works of visual arts from late XVIII c. till today. Ability to comprehend their historical, social and cultural implications, framing them in their respective contexts. Acquiring primary critical and historiographical methodology.
Applying knowledge and understanding: Acquiring primary historical and critical skills and methods for the study, interpretation and analysis of exemplary works of visual arts from late XVIII c. till today. Ability to comprehend their historical, social and cultural implications, framing them in their respective contexts. Acquiring primary critical and historiographical methodology.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
Modernity and Mass Culture, between Montage and Performance
Parte A (20 ore, 3 cfu): Collage and photomontage
Parte B (20 ore, 3 cfu): Montage and assemblage
Parte C (20 ore, 3 cfu): Performance
Parte A (20 ore, 3 cfu): Collage and photomontage
Parte B (20 ore, 3 cfu): Montage and assemblage
Parte C (20 ore, 3 cfu): Performance
Prerequisites for admission
Very good l knowledge of History of Art from Classical to late Contemporary Age.
Teaching methods
Lectures with seminars and monographic readings regarding important moments of change, passage or crisis during the history of art in the 20 century.
Teaching Resources
SUBJECTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Teaching Unit A :
- Subjects treated in lectures of Teaching Unit A;
One books from the following list:
1.Federica Rovati, L'arte del primo Novecento, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino 2015
2. Alessandro Del Puppo, L'arte contemporanea. Il secondo Novecento, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino 2013bookstore, Milano 2019.
Teaching Unit B: one book from the list from the following list:
The Art of Assemblage, (New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2 ottobre-12 novembre 1961), a c. di W.C. Seitz, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1961
Montage and Modern Life 1919-1942, (Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, 7 aprile-7 giugno 1992), a c. di M. Teitelbaum, MIT Press; Institute of Contemporary Art, Cambridge-Boston 1992
C. Poggi, In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism and the Invention of Collage, Yale U.P., New Haven, 1992
F. Fergonzi, La collezione Mattioli, Skira, Milano 2003
A. Goetz, Ingres collages. Dessins d'Ingres du musée de Montauban, (Musée Ingres, Montauban, 16 dicembre 2005-2 aprile 2006), Passage, Paris-New York 2005
D. Bernstein, Collage in Russia: XX Century, Palace Editions, San Pietroburgo 2006
John Heartfield. Photomontages politiques 1930-1938 (Strasburgo, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, 7 aprile-23 luglio 2006), a c. di E. Guigon, Éditions des Musées de Strasbourg, Strasburgo 2006
Negri A. (a c. di), László Moholy-Nagy. Pittura fotografia film, Scalpendi, Milano 2008 (I ediz. László Moholy-Nagy. Malerei Photographie Film, München, Albert Langen Verlag, 1925)
Collage: the unMonumental picture, a c. di R. Flood, L.J. Hoptman, M. Gioni, Electa-New museum of contemporary art, Milano-New York 2007
Collage/Collages dal Cubismo al New Dada, (Torino, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, ottobre 2007-gennaio 2008), a c. di M.M. Lamberti, M.G. Messina, Electa, Milano 2007
Cut & Paste. European Photomontage 1920-1945, (Londra, Estorick Collection, 24 settembre-21 dicembre 2008), a c. di L. Becker, Gangemi Editore, Roma 2008
Y. Nakamori, G. Bader, Utopia/dystopia. Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2012
A.M. Zervigon, John Heartfield and the Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-garde Photomontage, University of Chicago Press, Chicago-Londra 2013
Rubio O.M. (a c. di), El Lissitzky. L'esperienza della totalità (Rovereto, Mart, 2014), Electa, Milano 2014
A. Nigro, Ritratti e autoritratti surrealisti: fotografia e fotomontaggio nella Parigi di André Breton, CLUEP, Padova 2015
N. Baltzer, Die Fotomontage im Faschistischen Italien. Aspekte der Propaganda Unter Mussolini, De Gruyter, Berlino-Boston 2015
C. Toschi, Dalla pagina alla parete. Tipografia e fotomontaggio Dada, Firenze University Press, Firenze 2017
Montages: Assembling As a Form and Symptom in Contemporary Arts, a c. di C. Baldacci, M. Bertozzi, Mimesis International, Milano-Udine 2018
S. Bignami, "Fotomontage, fotomontage: ma che cosa è?". Montaggi, fotografie combinate, composizioni, fotomosaici nelle riviste illustrate degli anni Trenta, Scalpendi, Milano, 2022
ASART80. RIPENSARE GLI ANNI OTTANTA. Aspetti del sistema dell'arte a Milano tra politica culturale, società e comunicazione in un decennio cruciale, a cura di D.Colombo, 2021
Teaching Unit C :
Michael Kirby,Happenings:An Illustrated Anthology,New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1965
M. Mininni, Arte in scena. La performance in Italia, 1965-1980, Ravenna, Montanari, 1995
Huxley, Michael, and Noel Witts (eds.),The Twentieth Century Performance Reader, London and New York: Routledge, 1996
E. Diamond, Performance and Cultural Politics, Routledge, 1996.
Lucy Lippard (ed.), Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997
C. Fusco, Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas, Routledge, 1999.
G. Giannachi, Staging the Post-Avant-Garde. Italian Experimental Performance after 1970, Peter Lang, 2002
A. Lepecki, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement, Taylor & Francis, 2005
E. Fischer-Lichte, The Transformative Power of Performance. A New Aesthetic, London, Routledge, 2008
D. Eccher, Il teatro della performance, Torino, Allemandi, 2009
P. Orrell, Marina Abramovic + The Future of Performance Art, Prestel, 2010
R. Goldberg, Performance Art.From Futurism to the Present, Thames & Hudson, 2011
M. Rus Bojan, A. Barak, Performing History, The International Center for Contemporary Art Bucharest, 2011
R. Lozano, Prácticas culturales a-normales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2010.
S. O'Reilly, Il corpo nell'arte contemporanea, Einaudi, 2011
B.Knaup. E. Stammer, Re.Act. Feminism. A Performing Archive, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2012.
J. Sanders, J. Hoberman, Rituals of Rented Island. Object Theater, Loft Perfromance, and the New Psychodrama - Manhattan, 1970-1980, Yale University Press, 2013.
F. Gallo, La performance in Italia: temi, protagonisti e problemi, in «Ricerche di Storia dell'Arte», n. 114, Carocci,2014
Le tableau vivant ou l'image performée, sous a direction de Julie Ramos, 2014
G. Fontana, N. Frangione, R. Rossini, Italian Performance Art, Sagep 2015
Salanova, Enterrados. El ocaso de los cuerpos, Editorial Micromegas, 2015
C. Fusco, Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba, Tate Gallery, 2015
C. Fajardo-Hill, A. Giunta, Radical women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, Prestel, 2017.
C. Mu, P. Martore, Performance art. Traiettorie ed esperienze internazionali, Castelvecchi, 2018
D. Le Breton, La piel y la huella, Paradiso Editores, 2018 (trad. da La peau et la trace, 2003).
R. Goldberg, Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st Century, Thames & Hudson, 2018
C. Wood, Performance in contemporary art, Tate Publishing, 2018
M. Foà [et al.], Performance drawing. New Practices since 1945, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020
T. Macrì, Slittamenti della performance, Postmedia Books, 2020
P. Di Matteo, Performance e curatela, Luca Sossella, 2021
L. Beißwanger, Performance on Display. Zur Geschichte lebendiger Kunst im Museum, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2021
S. Best, It's not personal. Post 60s body art and performance, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
N. Alber, Scheitern als Performance. Vom Versagen und seiner politischen Relevanz in der Videokunst, Transcript Verlag, 2021
J.M. Lachaud, O. Lussac, L'art de la performance: Studies ou boîtes à outils, L'Harmattan, 2021
F. Gallo, Parole, voci, corpi tra arte concettuale e performance. Conferenze, discussioni, lezioni come pratiche artistiche in Italia, Milano, Mimesis , 2022
SUBJECTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR STUDENTS WHO COULD NOT ATTEND THE LECTURES
Teaching Unit A:
1.Federica Rovati, L'arte del primo Novecento, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino 2015
2. Alessandro Del Puppo, L'arte contemporanea. Il secondo Novecento, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino 2013
Teaching Unit B:
Teaching Unit B: one book from the list from the following list:
The Art of Assemblage, (New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2 ottobre-12 novembre 1961), a c. di W.C. Seitz, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1961
Montage and Modern Life 1919-1942, (Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, 7 aprile-7 giugno 1992), a c. di M. Teitelbaum, MIT Press; Institute of Contemporary Art, Cambridge-Boston 1992
C. Poggi, In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism and the Invention of Collage, Yale U.P., New Haven, 1992
F. Fergonzi, La collmo nero international, "L'Uomo nero. Materiali per una storia delle arti della modernità", n. 16, 2019.ezione Mattioli, Skira, Milano 2003
A. Goetz, Ingres collages. Dessins d'Ingres du musée de Montauban, (Musée Ingres, Montauban, 16 dicembre 2005-2 aprile 2006), Passage, Paris-New York 2005
D. Bernstein, Collage in Russia: XX Century, Palace Editions, San Pietroburgo 2006
John Heartfield. Photomontages politiques 1930-1938 (Strasburgo, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, 7 aprile-23 luglio 2006), a c. di E. Guigon, Éditions des Musées de Strasbourg, Strasburgo 2006
Negri A. (a c. di), László Moholy-Nagy. Pittura fotografia film, Scalpendi, Milano 2008 (I ediz. László Moholy-Nagy. Malerei Photographie Film, München, Albert Langen Verlag, 1925)
Collage: the unMonumental picture, a c. di R. Flood, L.J. Hoptman, M. Gioni, Electa-New museum of contemporary art, Milano-New York 2007
Collage/Collages dal Cubismo al New Dada, (Torino, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, ottobre 2007-gennaio 2008), a c. di M.M. Lamberti, M.G. Messina, Electa, Milano 2007
Cut & Paste. European Photomontage 1920-1945, (Londra, Estorick Collection, 24 settembre-21 dicembre 2008), a c. di L. Becker, Gangemi Editore, Roma 2008
Y. Nakamori, G. Bader, Utopia/dystopia. Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2012
A.M. Zervigon, John Heartfield and the Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-garde Photomontage, University of Chicago Press, Chicago-Londra 2013
Rubio O.M. (a c. di), El Lissitzky. L'esperienza della totalità (Rovereto, Mart, 2014), Electa, Milano 2014
A. Nigro, Ritratti e autoritratti surrealisti: fotografia e fotomontaggio nella Parigi di André Breton, CLUEP, Padova 2015
N. Baltzer, Die Fotomontage im Faschistischen Italien. Aspekte der Propaganda Unter Mussolini, De Gruyter, Berlino-Boston 2015
C. Toschi, Dalla pagina alla parete. Tipografia e fotomontaggio Dada, Firenze University Press, Firenze 2017
Montages: Assembling As a Form and Symptom in Contemporary Arts, a c. di C. Baldacci, M. Bertozzi, Mimesis International, Milano-Udine 2018
S. Bignami, "Fotomontage, fotomontage: ma che cosa è?". Montaggi, fotografie combinate, composizioni, fotomosaici nelle riviste illustrate degli anni Trenta, Scalpendi, Milano, 2021
Teaching Unit C
Teaching Unit C: one book from the list from the following list
Michael Kirby,Happenings:An Illustrated Anthology,New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1965
M. Mininni, Arte in scena. La performance in Italia, 1965-1980, Ravenna, Montanari, 1995
Huxley, Michael, and Noel Witts (eds.),The Twentieth Century Performance Reader, London and New York: Routledge, 1996
E. Diamond, Performance and Cultural Politics, Routledge, 1996.
Lucy Lippard (ed.), Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997
C. Fusco, Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas, Routledge, 1999.
G. Giannachi, Staging the Post-Avant-Garde. Italian Experimental Performance after 1970, Peter Lang, 2002
A. Lepecki, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement, Taylor & Francis, 2005
E. Fischer-Lichte, The Transformative Power of Performance. A New Aesthetic, London, Routledge, 2008
D. Eccher, Il teatro della performance, Torino, Allemandi, 2009
P. Orrell, Marina Abramovic + The Future of Performance Art, Prestel, 2010
R. Goldberg, Performance Art.From Futurism to the Present, Thames & Hudson, 2011
M. Rus Bojan, A. Barak, Performing History, The International Center for Contemporary Art Bucharest, 2011
R. Lozano, Prácticas culturales a-normales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2010.
S. O'Reilly, Il corpo nell'arte contemporanea, Einaudi, 2011
B.Knaup. E. Stammer, Re.Act. Feminism. A Performing Archive, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2012.
J. Sanders, J. Hoberman, Rituals of Rented Island. Object Theater, Loft Perfromance, and the New Psychodrama - Manhattan, 1970-1980, Yale University Press, 2013.
F. Gallo, La performance in Italia: temi, protagonisti e problemi, in «Ricerche di Storia dell'Arte», n. 114, Carocci,2014
Le tableau vivant ou l'image performée, sous a direction de Julie Ramos, 2014
G. Fontana, N. Frangione, R. Rossini, Italian Performance Art, Sagep 2015
Salanova, Enterrados. El ocaso de los cuerpos, Editorial Micromegas, 2015
C. Fusco, Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba, Tate Gallery, 2015
C. Fajardo-Hill, A. Giunta, Radical women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, Prestel, 2017.
C. Mu, P. Martore, Performance art. Traiettorie ed esperienze internazionali, Castelvecchi, 2018
D. Le Breton, La piel y la huella, Paradiso Editores, 2018 (trad. da La peau et la trace, 2003).
R. Goldberg, Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st Century, Thames & Hudson, 2018
C. Wood, Performance in contemporary art, Tate Publishing, 2018
M. Foà [et al.], Performance drawing. New Practices since 1945, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020
T. Macrì, Slittamenti della performance, Postmedia Books, 2020
P. Di Matteo, Performance e curatela, Luca Sossella, 2021
L. Beißwanger, Performance on Display. Zur Geschichte lebendiger Kunst im Museum, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2021
S. Best, It's not personal. Post 60s body art and performance, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
N. Alber, Scheitern als Performance. Vom Versagen und seiner politischen Relevanz in der Videokunst, Transcript Verlag, 2021
J.M. Lachaud, O. Lussac, L'art de la performance: Studies ou boîtes à outils, L'Harmattan, 2021
F. Gallo, Parole, voci, corpi tra arte concettuale e performance. Conferenze, discussioni, lezioni come pratiche artistiche in Italia, Milano, Mimesis , 2022
Teaching Unit A :
- Subjects treated in lectures of Teaching Unit A;
One books from the following list:
1.Federica Rovati, L'arte del primo Novecento, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino 2015
2. Alessandro Del Puppo, L'arte contemporanea. Il secondo Novecento, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino 2013bookstore, Milano 2019.
Teaching Unit B: one book from the list from the following list:
The Art of Assemblage, (New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2 ottobre-12 novembre 1961), a c. di W.C. Seitz, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1961
Montage and Modern Life 1919-1942, (Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, 7 aprile-7 giugno 1992), a c. di M. Teitelbaum, MIT Press; Institute of Contemporary Art, Cambridge-Boston 1992
C. Poggi, In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism and the Invention of Collage, Yale U.P., New Haven, 1992
F. Fergonzi, La collezione Mattioli, Skira, Milano 2003
A. Goetz, Ingres collages. Dessins d'Ingres du musée de Montauban, (Musée Ingres, Montauban, 16 dicembre 2005-2 aprile 2006), Passage, Paris-New York 2005
D. Bernstein, Collage in Russia: XX Century, Palace Editions, San Pietroburgo 2006
John Heartfield. Photomontages politiques 1930-1938 (Strasburgo, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, 7 aprile-23 luglio 2006), a c. di E. Guigon, Éditions des Musées de Strasbourg, Strasburgo 2006
Negri A. (a c. di), László Moholy-Nagy. Pittura fotografia film, Scalpendi, Milano 2008 (I ediz. László Moholy-Nagy. Malerei Photographie Film, München, Albert Langen Verlag, 1925)
Collage: the unMonumental picture, a c. di R. Flood, L.J. Hoptman, M. Gioni, Electa-New museum of contemporary art, Milano-New York 2007
Collage/Collages dal Cubismo al New Dada, (Torino, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, ottobre 2007-gennaio 2008), a c. di M.M. Lamberti, M.G. Messina, Electa, Milano 2007
Cut & Paste. European Photomontage 1920-1945, (Londra, Estorick Collection, 24 settembre-21 dicembre 2008), a c. di L. Becker, Gangemi Editore, Roma 2008
Y. Nakamori, G. Bader, Utopia/dystopia. Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2012
A.M. Zervigon, John Heartfield and the Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-garde Photomontage, University of Chicago Press, Chicago-Londra 2013
Rubio O.M. (a c. di), El Lissitzky. L'esperienza della totalità (Rovereto, Mart, 2014), Electa, Milano 2014
A. Nigro, Ritratti e autoritratti surrealisti: fotografia e fotomontaggio nella Parigi di André Breton, CLUEP, Padova 2015
N. Baltzer, Die Fotomontage im Faschistischen Italien. Aspekte der Propaganda Unter Mussolini, De Gruyter, Berlino-Boston 2015
C. Toschi, Dalla pagina alla parete. Tipografia e fotomontaggio Dada, Firenze University Press, Firenze 2017
Montages: Assembling As a Form and Symptom in Contemporary Arts, a c. di C. Baldacci, M. Bertozzi, Mimesis International, Milano-Udine 2018
S. Bignami, "Fotomontage, fotomontage: ma che cosa è?". Montaggi, fotografie combinate, composizioni, fotomosaici nelle riviste illustrate degli anni Trenta, Scalpendi, Milano, 2022
ASART80. RIPENSARE GLI ANNI OTTANTA. Aspetti del sistema dell'arte a Milano tra politica culturale, società e comunicazione in un decennio cruciale, a cura di D.Colombo, 2021
Teaching Unit C :
Michael Kirby,Happenings:An Illustrated Anthology,New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1965
M. Mininni, Arte in scena. La performance in Italia, 1965-1980, Ravenna, Montanari, 1995
Huxley, Michael, and Noel Witts (eds.),The Twentieth Century Performance Reader, London and New York: Routledge, 1996
E. Diamond, Performance and Cultural Politics, Routledge, 1996.
Lucy Lippard (ed.), Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997
C. Fusco, Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas, Routledge, 1999.
G. Giannachi, Staging the Post-Avant-Garde. Italian Experimental Performance after 1970, Peter Lang, 2002
A. Lepecki, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement, Taylor & Francis, 2005
E. Fischer-Lichte, The Transformative Power of Performance. A New Aesthetic, London, Routledge, 2008
D. Eccher, Il teatro della performance, Torino, Allemandi, 2009
P. Orrell, Marina Abramovic + The Future of Performance Art, Prestel, 2010
R. Goldberg, Performance Art.From Futurism to the Present, Thames & Hudson, 2011
M. Rus Bojan, A. Barak, Performing History, The International Center for Contemporary Art Bucharest, 2011
R. Lozano, Prácticas culturales a-normales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2010.
S. O'Reilly, Il corpo nell'arte contemporanea, Einaudi, 2011
B.Knaup. E. Stammer, Re.Act. Feminism. A Performing Archive, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2012.
J. Sanders, J. Hoberman, Rituals of Rented Island. Object Theater, Loft Perfromance, and the New Psychodrama - Manhattan, 1970-1980, Yale University Press, 2013.
F. Gallo, La performance in Italia: temi, protagonisti e problemi, in «Ricerche di Storia dell'Arte», n. 114, Carocci,2014
Le tableau vivant ou l'image performée, sous a direction de Julie Ramos, 2014
G. Fontana, N. Frangione, R. Rossini, Italian Performance Art, Sagep 2015
Salanova, Enterrados. El ocaso de los cuerpos, Editorial Micromegas, 2015
C. Fusco, Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba, Tate Gallery, 2015
C. Fajardo-Hill, A. Giunta, Radical women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, Prestel, 2017.
C. Mu, P. Martore, Performance art. Traiettorie ed esperienze internazionali, Castelvecchi, 2018
D. Le Breton, La piel y la huella, Paradiso Editores, 2018 (trad. da La peau et la trace, 2003).
R. Goldberg, Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st Century, Thames & Hudson, 2018
C. Wood, Performance in contemporary art, Tate Publishing, 2018
M. Foà [et al.], Performance drawing. New Practices since 1945, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020
T. Macrì, Slittamenti della performance, Postmedia Books, 2020
P. Di Matteo, Performance e curatela, Luca Sossella, 2021
L. Beißwanger, Performance on Display. Zur Geschichte lebendiger Kunst im Museum, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2021
S. Best, It's not personal. Post 60s body art and performance, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
N. Alber, Scheitern als Performance. Vom Versagen und seiner politischen Relevanz in der Videokunst, Transcript Verlag, 2021
J.M. Lachaud, O. Lussac, L'art de la performance: Studies ou boîtes à outils, L'Harmattan, 2021
F. Gallo, Parole, voci, corpi tra arte concettuale e performance. Conferenze, discussioni, lezioni come pratiche artistiche in Italia, Milano, Mimesis , 2022
SUBJECTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR STUDENTS WHO COULD NOT ATTEND THE LECTURES
Teaching Unit A:
1.Federica Rovati, L'arte del primo Novecento, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino 2015
2. Alessandro Del Puppo, L'arte contemporanea. Il secondo Novecento, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino 2013
Teaching Unit B:
Teaching Unit B: one book from the list from the following list:
The Art of Assemblage, (New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2 ottobre-12 novembre 1961), a c. di W.C. Seitz, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1961
Montage and Modern Life 1919-1942, (Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, 7 aprile-7 giugno 1992), a c. di M. Teitelbaum, MIT Press; Institute of Contemporary Art, Cambridge-Boston 1992
C. Poggi, In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism and the Invention of Collage, Yale U.P., New Haven, 1992
F. Fergonzi, La collmo nero international, "L'Uomo nero. Materiali per una storia delle arti della modernità", n. 16, 2019.ezione Mattioli, Skira, Milano 2003
A. Goetz, Ingres collages. Dessins d'Ingres du musée de Montauban, (Musée Ingres, Montauban, 16 dicembre 2005-2 aprile 2006), Passage, Paris-New York 2005
D. Bernstein, Collage in Russia: XX Century, Palace Editions, San Pietroburgo 2006
John Heartfield. Photomontages politiques 1930-1938 (Strasburgo, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, 7 aprile-23 luglio 2006), a c. di E. Guigon, Éditions des Musées de Strasbourg, Strasburgo 2006
Negri A. (a c. di), László Moholy-Nagy. Pittura fotografia film, Scalpendi, Milano 2008 (I ediz. László Moholy-Nagy. Malerei Photographie Film, München, Albert Langen Verlag, 1925)
Collage: the unMonumental picture, a c. di R. Flood, L.J. Hoptman, M. Gioni, Electa-New museum of contemporary art, Milano-New York 2007
Collage/Collages dal Cubismo al New Dada, (Torino, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, ottobre 2007-gennaio 2008), a c. di M.M. Lamberti, M.G. Messina, Electa, Milano 2007
Cut & Paste. European Photomontage 1920-1945, (Londra, Estorick Collection, 24 settembre-21 dicembre 2008), a c. di L. Becker, Gangemi Editore, Roma 2008
Y. Nakamori, G. Bader, Utopia/dystopia. Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2012
A.M. Zervigon, John Heartfield and the Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-garde Photomontage, University of Chicago Press, Chicago-Londra 2013
Rubio O.M. (a c. di), El Lissitzky. L'esperienza della totalità (Rovereto, Mart, 2014), Electa, Milano 2014
A. Nigro, Ritratti e autoritratti surrealisti: fotografia e fotomontaggio nella Parigi di André Breton, CLUEP, Padova 2015
N. Baltzer, Die Fotomontage im Faschistischen Italien. Aspekte der Propaganda Unter Mussolini, De Gruyter, Berlino-Boston 2015
C. Toschi, Dalla pagina alla parete. Tipografia e fotomontaggio Dada, Firenze University Press, Firenze 2017
Montages: Assembling As a Form and Symptom in Contemporary Arts, a c. di C. Baldacci, M. Bertozzi, Mimesis International, Milano-Udine 2018
S. Bignami, "Fotomontage, fotomontage: ma che cosa è?". Montaggi, fotografie combinate, composizioni, fotomosaici nelle riviste illustrate degli anni Trenta, Scalpendi, Milano, 2021
Teaching Unit C
Teaching Unit C: one book from the list from the following list
Michael Kirby,Happenings:An Illustrated Anthology,New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1965
M. Mininni, Arte in scena. La performance in Italia, 1965-1980, Ravenna, Montanari, 1995
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Assessment methods and Criteria
The oral exam consists of an interview on the program topics, aimed at ascertaining the knowledge and critical skills acquired by the learner. Any additional educational activities and exercises will be presented during the lessons.
Unita' didattica A
L-ART/03 - HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
L-ART/03 - HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-ART/03 - HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor(s)
Reception:
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