SOCIOLOGY OF THE ART
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- ANNALISA CATTANI
- Credits
- 6
- Curriculum
- Comunicazione della cultura e delle arti
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- SPS/08
Training objectives
- The course aims to offer some basic theoretical tools to read art as a relevant cultural phenomenon in its complex relationship with society.
Know the main sociological theories assigned to socio-cultural systems, in order to be able to analyze their theoretical-conceptual frameworks.
Knowing and knowing how to interpret the transformations of the art system in the broader framework of the overall social change. Prerequisites
- No specific previous knowledge is required.
Course programme
- The first part of the module will cover general topics. Following the theme of the relationship between language, communication, art and society as a guiding thread, without neglecting the nature and history of art, the course intends to place itself within a tradition of socio-linguistic investigation.
The second part of the course will be aimed at understanding the artistic and cultural processes in its various aspects, such as:
-Understanding approaches to museum care
-The bases of historical and conceptual analysis and interpretation
-Understanding the role played by historians, curators and collectors
-Develop critical thinking and analytical skills
-To become aware of how things that seem to belong to different disciplines can actually "talk" to each other
-Experience that looking closely at even a single object can push academic and disciplinary boundaries
Analysis of contemporary art as a 'critical' and self-reflective place of post-modernity. Through the images of the works, the way in which some contemporary artists have elaborated some crucial themes of post-modernity in particular will be analyzed:
The public space between the elaborations of memory, iconoclasm and damnatio memoriae. Didactic methods
- Lectures. There will be practical and collaborative sessions. Visual documents and video will be presented, texts will be discussed, suggested and distributed. These texts will be included in oral and written examinations. The Power Point slides during the lesson will be provided.
Learning assessment procedures
- The final exam will be oral and for those attending it will be based on the bibliographers and on the handouts distributed during the lessons.
For non-attending students, it will be based on the texts indicated in the program dedicated to them.
The exam will consist of an interview relating to the program carried out in class. In the oral test the student (attending or not attending) should be able to discuss critically and adequately related to the program of the course. Reference texts
- Texts for attending students:
Heinich Nathalie, Sociologia dell’arte, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.
One of the following:
Pioselli Alessandra, L’arte nello spazio pubblico. L’esperienza italiana dal 1968 ad oggi, Monza, Johan & Levi Editore, 2015;
Trasforini Maria Antonietta, Nel segno delle artiste. Donne, professioni d'arte e modernità, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007;
Parola Luisa, Giù i monumenti? Una questione aperta, Torino, Einaudi, 2022
Pinto Roberto, Nuove geografie artistiche. Le mostre al tempo della globalizzazione, Milano, Postmedia Books, 2012
Guerisoli Francesca, Ni una mas. Arte e attivismo contro il femminicidio, Milano, Postmedia Books, 2016
A.titolo, Nuovi committenti. Arte contemporanea, società e spazio pubblico, Milano, Silvana Editoriale, 2008
Texts for non attending students:
Heinich Nathalie, Sociologia dell’arte, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.
Two of the following:
Pioselli Alessandra, L’arte nello spazio pubblico. L’esperienza italiana dal 1968 ad oggi, Monza, Johan & Levi Editore, 2015;
Trasforini Maria Antonietta, Nel segno delle artiste. Donne, professioni d'arte e modernità, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007;
Parola Luisa, Giù i monumenti? Una questione aperta, Torino, Einaudi, 2022
Pinto Roberto, Nuove geografie artistiche. Le mostre al tempo della globalizzazione, Milano, Postmedia Books, 2012
Guerisoli Francesca, Ni una mas. Arte e attivismo contro il femminicidio, Milano, Postmedia Books, 2016
A.titolo, Nuovi committenti. Arte contemporanea, società e spazio pubblico, Milano, Silvana Editoriale, 2008
