Sumários

Feminist aesthetics and criticism

15 Fevereiro 2022, 09:30 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Kristin Congdon and Elizabeth Garber's art criticism

Analysing Miriam Schapiro and Judy Chicago's Womenhouse (1972)
Analysing Women House (2018) exhibition  by contemporary women artists in light of feminist theories
Sarah Lucas's I Scream Daddio exhibition at the Venice Biennale (2015)

Modernist and postmodernist aesthetics and criticism

10 Fevereiro 2022, 09:30 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Arthur Danto's theory on "the end of art".
Modernism as a "history of erasures".
Analysis of Sherrie Levine's "appropriation" of artworks by Walker Evans.
Postmodernists' rejection of modernist artists' belief in creativity and originality.

Aesthetic practices in postmodernism

8 Fevereiro 2022, 09:30 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Art as commodity

Analysis of Jeff Koons' mixed-media installations
The paradigm shift from modern to postmodern visual culture: Duchamp's readymades
George Dickie's institutional theory of art
The institutional politics of the Turner Prize

Art Theories

3 Fevereiro 2022, 09:30 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

  • Classical and contemporary definitions of art
  • Plato's idea of mimesis
  • Kasimir Malevich's abstract approach to painting
  • Formalist aesthetics
  • The institutional theory of art
  • Analysis of Tracey Emin's My Bed, 1999

Set reading for 8 February:
"Exploring Postmodernities", pp. 164-191

Defining Contemporary Art

1 Fevereiro 2022, 09:30 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

  • Institutional definitions of contemporary art.
  • What defines the the contemporary art museum: architecture and the museum experience. 
  • The role of international art biennales.
  • Art movements of the Modern Age: Expressionism, Cubism, Abstract Art, Dada and Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art
Set Reading for Thursdays, 3 February:
"Art Histories and Art Theories"