Taught In English

There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level.

Number of sessions: 30
Length of each session: 1,5 h
Total length of the module: 45 hours
CONTENT
1- Art in the 70’s: Ephemeral Art reinvidication exhibition, When the attitudes
became art, Harald Szeemann, Suisse 1968.
1.1 Arte Povera: return to the use of poor and/or organic materials
1.2 Land Art: integration of art in the landscape
1.3 Conceptual Art: domination of the concept over the shape
1.4 Spanish Conceptual Art: Collection of the Museum of Contemporary art of
Barcelona (MACBA): Antoni Llena, Grup de treball, Antoni Muntades,
Francesc Abad, Fina Miralles, Francesc Torres, Àngels Ribé…
2- Art in the 80’s: Return to the painting surface
2.1 The role of the big exhibitions in the international art situation; change of
the art taste: Documenta of Kassel, 1982, Biennale of Venetia, ARCO of
Madrid …
2.2 New painting Movements: German Neo-expressionism, Italian
Transvanguarda…
2.2 Spanish painters: Miquel Barceló, Garcia Sevilla, Victor Mira, José María
Sicilia, Broto…. Victoria Civera, Juan Uslé, Cristina Iglesias, Juan Muñoz
2.4 New generation of sculptors.
3- Art in the 90’s: Neo conceptual art
3.1 Photography Art
3.2 Performance Art
3.3 Installation Art
3.4 Video Art
3.5 Spanish art situation
4- The new strategies in art.
4.1 The London Saatchi collection: young neo-surrealist British artists
4.3 Palais of Tokio, Paris: Relation Art
4.2 Spanish post-living art: Marcel·lí Antúnez, Ana Laura Aláez, Dora García,
Maria Ruido, Eulàlia Valldosera..