| Unit name | Modern Art in Italy |
|---|---|
| Unit code | HART22215 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | I/5 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Mr. Lilley |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
none |
| Co-requisites |
none |
| School/department | Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
A review of modern Italian art from its foundations in the nineteenth century with the work of the Macchiaioli and the Divisionists up to contemporary developments including the Arte Povera Movement and Transavanguardia. The rise of modern Italian art will be considered in context with other European modern art concepts, the impact of politics and historical events, and the reception in Italy of theoretical and formal ideas derived from key sources from Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism, as well as considering critical responses to and receptions of Italian modern art. Theoretical and critical texts are drawn from the artists themselves and their contemporaries which are used to situate and define the changing aesthetic and ideological preoccupations that have informed modern Italian art since the Risorgimento period in the nineteenth century to the present.
