Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500239 Art History | OB | 3 | 1 |
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The course syllabus draws a tour through the history of art theory. We will study the main authors, subjects, concepts and debates that summarize the whole body of artistic theories from antiquity to modernity. We will put emphasis on the analysis of the processes of transformation of ideas, in connection to their historic, artistic and cultural contexts. The purpose of this approach is to provide the student with the necessary means and skills to understand how the artistic concepts and thinking trends originate and evolve over time.
1. Antiquity and Middle Ages
1.1. The concept of mimesis or imitation of nature. Inventing fiction.
1.2 Beauty in classical and medieval culture. Ideal beauty, nature and the arts.
2. Renaissance
2.1. Theories of representation of nature in the Renaissance.
2.2. Renaissance cult of beauty and classical thought on beauty
3. The seventeenth century
The concept ut pictura poesis and its influence in humanistic theory of art. The Academy: systems and principles.
4. Enlightenment and Romanticism
4.1. Transformations of art and artistic theory in the Enlightenment. A new approach to beauty and the artist: the enlightenment theories of taste and genius.
4.2. Nature, art and the subject, a brief history of modern sublime.
4.3. Romantic philosophy of art: artistic truth and imagination. The romantic artist
5. The 19th century
The emergence of modernity and the crisis of the Academy. Towards a definition of modern art and artist.
The teaching methodology and the evaluation proposed in the guide may undergo some modification subject to the onsite teaching restrictions imposed by health authorities
Lectures
Documents search and writing exercices
Individual work: writing a critical essay
Text analysis of the readings assigned to the topics covered in the course.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures | 50 | 2 | 9, 5, 2, 6, 3, 8, 10, 11, 13, 12, 16 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Individual work: writing a critical essay | 25 | 1 | 9, 5, 2, 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 15 |
Text analysis of the readings assigned to the topics covered in the course | 25 | 1 | 4, 12 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Documents search and writing exercices | 50 | 2 | 9, 5, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 12, 15, 16 |
The assessement will draw in three exercices:
Two papers and the text analysis of the readings assigned to the topics covered in the course.
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online
format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained).
Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or
discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual
tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives
In case of plagirarism:
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation
in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for
this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of
several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given
a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Papers review procedure:
Durig the evaluative process, the lecturer will inform students (Moodle) of the papers review procedure.
The Student will be rated as ‘Not assessable’ if he/she has not delivered more than 30 % of the evaluation work.
Second chance examination:
The student could submit a second chance examination of the papers with a rating inferior to 5.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Paper 1 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 9, 5, 2, 6, 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 12, 14, 15, 16 |
Paper 2 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 9, 5, 2, 6, 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 12, 14, 15, 16 |
Text analysis of the readings assigned to the topics covered in the course | 20 | 0 | 0 | 9, 5, 2, 6, 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 12, 14, 15, 16 |
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
BODEI, Remo, La forma de lo bello, Visor, Madrid, 1998
BOZAL,Valeriano (ed.), Historia de las ideas estéticas y de las teorías artísticas contemporáneas, Vols. I, II, Visor, Madrid, 1996
FRANZINI, Elio i MAZZOCUT-MIS, Maddalena, Estetica: I nomi, i concetti, le correnti, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 1996. HARRISON, Charles; Wood, Paul i GAIGER, Jason, (eds.), Art in Theory, 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Blackwell, Oxford, 2000.
HARRISON, Charles & WOOD, Paul with GAIGER, Jason (eds.), Art in Theory, 1815-1900: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Blackwell, Oxford, 1998.
HARRISON, Charles & WOOD, Paul (eds.), Art in Theory, 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Blackwell, Oxford, 2002.
HOLT, Elisabeth Gilmore, A Documentary History of Art, Vols. I i II, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1981, 1982.
HOLT, Elisabeth Gilmore, From Classicists to the Impressionists, Art and Architecture in the 19th Century, Vol. III, Yale University Press, New haven & London, 1986.
KEARNEY, Richard i RASMUSSEN, David, (eds.), Continental Aesthetics, Romanticism to Postmodernism, An Anthology, Blackwell, Oxford, 2001.
KELLY, Michael (ed.), Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998.
LORENTE, Jesús-Pedro, Historia de la crítica del arte. Textos escogidos y comentados, Prensas universitarias de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 2005.
SCRUTON, Roger, Beauty: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011.
SHINER, Larry, La invención del arte, Una historia cultural, Paidós, Barcelona, 2014.
SMITH, Paul i WILDE, Carolyn, A Companion to Art Theory, Blackwell, Oxford, 2002.
TATARKIEWICZ, Wladyslaw, Historia de la estética, Vols. I-II, Akal, Madrid, 1991.
TATARKIEWICZ, Wladyslaw, Historia de seis ideas, Tecnos, Madrid, 1987.
V.V.A.A., Fuentes y Documentos para la Historia del Arte, Vols. I-VIII, Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 1979.
If a specific program is necessary we will inform the student.