ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
- Provide the student with a plural and integrative vision of contemporary art and culture.
- Know how to differentiate the basic characteristics of the various artistic movements of the period under study.
- Understand the different formal and visual languages that occur in this period.
- Know how to frame the work of art in the appropriate contexts in which it was created and relate it to other forms of cultural expression.
- Know the different artistic techniques used throughout the contemporary period and know how to deduce how these condition and act on the work of art.
- That the student acquire the basic methodological and critical foundations that allow him/her to enter the exercise of the research activity.
1. Neoclassicism, alternatives, and visionaries. David, Ingres, Blake and Goya
2. The Romantic Revolution and Academic Conformism. Géricault, Delacroix, Turner, Friedrich
3. Realistic engagement and Symbolist escapism. Courbet, Manet, and Pre-Raphaelitism
4. Impressionism and materiality. Monet, Degas, Morisot, Cassatt, Renoir
5. The Post-Impressionist searches. Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin
6. Architecture from the second half of the 18th and 19th centuries. True style, neos and eclecticism
7. Urbanism and architecture in the passage from the 19th to the 20th century. Trends of architectural modernism. Chicago School.
8. The Historical Avant-gardes. General Features. Fauvism and Expressionism
9. Cubism. Picasso. Apollinaire’s Cubist Manifesto
10. Functionalism: genesis, triumph and expansion through the International Style
11. American Abstract Expressionism, Neo Dada and Pop Art
(*Handbooks)
Argan, J.C., El arte moderno, Valencia, 1976
*Arnason, H.H., A History of modern art : painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, London: Thames and Hudson, 1998
Benevolo, L., Historia de la arquitectura Moderna, Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1999
Boime, A., Historia social del arte moderno: el arte en la época de la Revolución. 1750-1800, Madrid, Alianza, 1994
Boime, A., Historia social del arte moderno: el arte en la época del bonapartismo. 1800-1815, Madrid, Alianza, 1996
Bryson, Norman, Tradición y deseo: de David a Delacroix, Madrid, Akal, 2002
Chipp, H., Teorías del Arte Contemporáneo. Fuentes artísticas y opinions críticas, Madrid, Akal, 1995
Collins, P., Los ideales de la arquitectura moderna, su evolución, 1750-1950. Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1970
*Daix, P., Historia cultural del mundo moderno. De David a Cézanne, Madrid, Cátedra, 2002
Denvir, B., Historia del Impresionismo, Madrid, Libsa, 1992
Eitner, Lorenz E. A., Géricault, his life and his work, London, Orbis Publishing, 1983
*Eisenman, S. et al., Historia crítica del arte del siglo XIX, Madrid, Akal, 2001
Flam, J., Matisse: The Man and His Art 1868-1918 (Ithaca and London, 1986)
Foster, H. et al., Arte desde 1900. Modernidad, antimodernidad, posmodernidad, Madrid, Akal, 2006
Frampton, K., Historia crítica de la arquitectura moderna, Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 2007
Frascina, F. et. al., La modernidad y lo moderno. La pintura francesa en el siglo XIX, Madrid, Akal, 1993
Fried, M., El Realismo de Courbet, Madrid, Antonio Machado Libros, 2003
Fusco, R. de, Historia de la arquitectura contemporánea, Madrid, Celeste, 1992
García, S., La novela gráfica, Bilbao, Astiberri, 2014
González García, A. et al., Escritos de arte de vanguardia 1900/1945, Madrid, Ediciones Turner, 1979
Gravagnuolo, B., Historia del urbanismo en Europa, 1750-1960, Madrid, Akal, 1998
Hitchcock, H-R., Arquitectura de los siglos XIX y XX, Madrid, Cátedra, 2008
Honour, H., El Romanticismo, Madrid, Alianza, 1981
Honour, H., Neoclasicismo, Madrid, Xairat Ediciones, 1982
Kaufmann, E., La Arquitectura de la Ilustración: Barroco y Posbarroco en Inglaterra, Italia y Francia, Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1974
Kendall, R., Degas by himself. Drawings, prints, paintings, writings, UK, Time Warner Books, 2004
Nochlin, L., Courbet, Thames & Hudson, 2007
Nochlin, L., El Realismo, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1991
Noon, Patrick, Constable to Delacroix. British and the French Romantics, London, Tate Publishing, 2003
Pevsner, N., Los orígenes de la arquitectura moderna y del diseño, Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1976
Pevsner, N.,. Pioneros del diseño moderno. Desde William Morris a Walter Gropius, Buenos Aires, Infinito, 1936
*Ramírez, J. A. (Dir.), Historia del Arte. El mundo contemporáneo. Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1997
*Reyero, C., Introducción al arte occidental del siglo XIX, Madrid, Cátedra, 2014
Rewald, J., El Postimpresionismo: de Van Gogh a Gauguin, Madrid, Alianza, 1982
Rewald, J., Historia del impresionismo, Barcelona, Seix Barral, 1994
*Rosemblum, Robert y Janson, H.W., El arte del siglo XIX, Madrid, Akal Arte, 1999
Schiff, R., Cezanne y el fin del impresionismo. Estudio de la teoría, la técnica y la valoración críticas del arte moderno, Madrid, Antonio Machado, 2002
Smith, P., Impresionismo, Madrid, Akal, 2006
Toman, R. (ed.), Neoclasicismo y Romanticismo. Arquitectura. Escultura. Pintura. Dibujo, Colonia, Könemann, 2000
The student will be able to:
-Analyse and synthesize the knowledge acquired.
-Read, analyse and interpret a work of art in the period under study, relating it to the appropriate contexts in which it was created and connecting it with other forms of cultural expression.
-Develop a scientific methodology specific to the History of Art and use the most appropriate historiographic tools.
-Be involved in the defense and conservation of cultural heritage.
-Acquire skills in the management of new technologies.
This course is not scheduled to be taught during the 2025/2026 academic year.
The final assessment for the course consists solely of a single written examination held on the officially scheduled date (100% of the final grade).
All course hours are intended for the student's individual study and independent work.
In cases of academic fraud, as defined in Article 42 of the USC Coexistence Regulations and in accordance with Article 11(g) of the Spanish University Coexistence Act, the sanctions set out in those regulations will be applied. Premeditated behaviours aimed at falsifying the results of an exam or assignment include plagiarism and the unauthorised use of Artificial Intelligence tools.
Carme Lopez Calderon
- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- carme.lopez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Ana Perez Varela
- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- ana.perez.varela [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor