Course Details
Country:
Italy
Institution:
Mason-Led: Florence Semester Experience at FUA
Course Title:
Contemporary Italian Art
Course Number:
LAAHCI360
Course Description:
The course explores the works of artists who, over the last 50 years, have made today's art and constructed the relationship between artists and the city of Florence in the Italian context. Emphasis is placed on comparing the panorama of traditional, historic Florence and Italy to international contemporary art. The course will involve lectures (a survey of art in Tuscany and Italy, including abstract experiences, Italian pop art, minimal art, Poesia visiva, Trans-avant-gardism and the present-day tendencies of figurative art) and fact-finding visits to artist ateliers where course participants are encouraged to ask questions, i.e. which factors led artists towards certain decisions, which cultural forces led artists to adopt certain forms, etc. The course alternates between fieldwork for visiting galleries and ateliers and carrying out interpretative analyses of the fieldwork in the classroom.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ARTH 398, INTS 399
Attachment Files:
_syllabus_LAAHCI360 Contemporary Italian Art_1531836917.pdf
