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14414 Avantgarde Theories - Five-year degree in History of Art

Center

Faculty of Geography and History

Departament

Philosophy

Lecturers in charge

Sin datos cargados

Met. Docent

Lectures, practical workshops and tutorials

Met. Avaluació

Final examination - -

Bibliografia

AZÚA, Félix. Diccionario de las artes. Ed. Anagrama.
BENJAMIN, Walter. "La obra de arte en la era de su reproductibilidad técnica", en Discursos Interrumpidos I. Ed. Taurus.
BÜRGER, Peter. Teoría de la Vanguardia. Ed. Península.
DE MICHELLI, Mario. Las vanguardias artísticas del siglo XX. Ed. Alianza Forma.
El descrédito de las vanguardias. VV. AA. Ed. Blume.
SUBIRATS, E. La crisis de las vanguardias y la cultura moderna. Ed. Libertarias.

Continguts

This subject is within the first cycle of Philosophy and History of Art, and is of an introductory character. Artistic Vanguardism/Ultramodernism in the first decades of the XX century, will be the basis for studying some of the main themes of Aesthetics and some aspects of aesthetics in the present era.

Themes:

1.- Short prologue: What is Vanguardism/Ultramoderism?
2.- Some History: Political and social scenario at the end of the XIX century. Artistic context.
3.- History of the teminology "Vanguardism" . Modernism in relationship to Vanguardism . Autonomy of Art..
4.- Aesthetic Modernism: Charles Baudelaire. (Painter of modern life).
5.- Characteristics of Vanguardism. Common features.
6.- The impact of Vanguardism on aesthetics.
7.- Art in times of crisis: Walter Benjamin
8.- Failure or prevailence of Vanguardism?