ARTE-1314A Experimental Video

This course aims to travel the timetable of the history of western art through specific works of art, artists and topics. It focuses on historic and geographic contexts of artistic production and researches the development of major genres such as portraits, landscapes and still life. It considers the different functions of art and its patronage systems, the transformation of exhibition spaces with the creation of the museum, the development of criticism and the points of contact with non-western art. Similarly, it introduces the major problems of the discipline and puts forward concept maps to cover art history starting with general notions such as mimesis, representation, style, narrative, originality, aesthetics, genres and temporality, among others. In turn, it makes the notion of art itself - a relatively new, essentially western concept - a problem and reflects on the historic conditions and the models of thought that have played a role in the development of art history as a discipline.

Credits

3

Instructor

Zalamea Fajardo Patricia