STUDY PROGRAMME
Scenography

AFAM CODE
ABST47

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Style, History of art and costume

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
History of modern art

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical

This course explores history of art as a way to understand many contemporary phenomena: the languages of art with its contexts and fields; images and their manipulation and consumption, from the beginnings of the industrial era to the developments of technology and of the communication media that characterise our current world.

This course is made of a single module of 6 CFA credits.

Successful students will be able to:

• Understand the reviewed topics and case studies, as well as the most significant authors

• Decode the language of modern art

• Improve their iconographic analysis with an interdisciplinary approach, comparison among different sources, analytical tools and historical-critic interpretations

• Analysis of historic-chronological configurations, from the avant-gardes to the artistic movements of the 20th Century

• The current scenario of artistic research

• Expressions and contaminations among visual arts, architecture, design, advertisement images and multimedia, and the most creative and contemporary communication potential

This is a theoretical course.

Over the course, the students will carry out the following didactic activities, which may vary depending on the themes that will be developed.

• Front lectures

• Students engagement in debates, presentations, peer assessment

• Use of tutorials, videos or other multi-media material

• Exercises and revisions

• Individual study and research

Assessment tools may include:

• Oral exams

• Submission of papers, projects or research work

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

RECOMMENDED:

• Fagone, C. (2018) Geografia di un interno - Luoghi dell’abitare e ricerca artistica tra memoria e sperimentazione, Milano: Milieu Edizioni.

• Fagone, C. (2019) Collezione di camere, Milano: Milieu Edizioni.

• Fagone, C. (2019), Corpi&Corpi, Milano: Milieu Edizioni, 2019.

Texts for in-depth study:

• Fagone, C. (2008) Icone lucenti - nuovi territori dell’arte, Milano: Design Diffusion Edizioni.

• Fagone, C. (2009) Visual Vortex – molteplicità dell’arte nel mondo contemporaneo, Milano: Design Diffusion Edizioni.

• Lucie-Smith, E. (2003), Arti visive del XX secolo, Ullmann.

• AA.VV., (2010) L’arte del XX secolo, Milano: Skira Edizioni.

A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.

Further books and other recommended or required resources may be specified by the professor.