Sumários

9 Fevereiro 2023, 11:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Defining Modernity and Postmodernity

Differences between modernist and postmodernist art

Postmodernist aesthetics and criticism: Appropriation and the erasure of boundaries between the original and the reproduction

7 Fevereiro 2023, 11:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Postmodern approaches to art making and aesthetic practices

Art as commodity and concept.

Analysis of Jeff Koons's installation Three Total Equilibrium Tank, 1985.

Critique of George Dickie's institutional theory of art.

Response to Andy Goldworthy's documentary Rivers and Tides, 2002

2 Fevereiro 2023, 11:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

i. Categories of art.

ii. Art as imitation.

iii. Plato's idea of mimesis.

iv. Formalist theories of art

v. The institutional theory of art.

vi. Art as expression: Tracy Emin, My Bed, 1998

31 Janeiro 2023, 11:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Institutional definition of contemporary art.

Discussion of the experience of the Contemporary Art Museum: architecture and exhibition spaces.

Screening of a guided tour of five contemporary art masterpieces at the Centre Pompidou.

Formal Analysis of Joana Vasconcelos's Valkyrie Octopus, 2015

26 Janeiro 2023, 11:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

“Introduction” in Gateways to Art (2018), pp.20-39

i. What is art?

ii. Who says it’s art?

iii. Why is art valued?

iv. Where is it collected and displayed?

Formal analysis of David Hockney, A Bigger Splash,1967