STUDY PROGRAMME
Media Design and Multimedia Arts

AFAM CODE
ABST47

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Style, History of art and costume

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
History of modern art

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical

This programme looks at art as a key for the interpretation of contemporary phenomena: languages, contexts and scopes of art, the manipulation and consumption of images from the early stages of the industrial era to the technology and communication media development that characterize the contemporary scenario.

The programme consists of one single module, which grants 8 credits.

Successful students will be able to:

• Familiarize with the avant-gardes and place them in the modern era scenario

• Decode the language of modern art

• Put the 20th century artistic currents into context

• Rising of modernity and analysis of the historic avant-gardes

• Understanding the socio-political context

• Analysis of the historic-chronological configurations

• Study of the debates and conflicts of the 20th Century

• The current scenario of artistic research

• Expressions and contaminations among visual arts, architecture, design, advertisement images, multimedia, and its intense, most original and contemporary communication potential

The programme focuses on theoretical courses.

Students will take part in the following activities, which may vary depending on the different topics:

• Classroom lectures

• Debates, presentations, peer assessment

• Debates, presentations, peer assessment

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools

• Exercises and revisions

• Individual study and research

Assessment tools may include:

• Verbal exams

• Exercises or projects

Further details about the exams will be provided by the professors.

The final grade will result from the weighted average of the programme modules.

• Braun, E. (editor) (1989) Italian Art in the 20th Century, London: Prestel.

• Pinto, S. (2002) A History of Italian Art in the 20th Century, Milano: Skira.

Many of the recommended sources, together with additional material, are also available online on MyNaba, in the Library section.

Books and resources might be requested or suggested by the professors.