Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Design

HISTÓRIA DA ARTE - 2021/2022

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 2

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Alberto Estima
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Alberto Estima

Class type and School hours

Teórica : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Stimulate the capacity for critical articulation between various scientific domains inherent to Theory and History, related to the scientific domain of design;
Understand the practice of design in specific social, cultural and economic contexts;
Apply nomenclatures and vocabulary specific to design;
Understand the place of Art History in the development of human thought.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Equip students with tools and knowledge that allow them to produce scientific knowledge in the field of design;
Knowing how to identify movements, authors and strategic lines of each of the main movements that generated groups and/or schools, trends addressed, considering the context;
Understand Art History within the broader context of cultural, social, political and economic development.

Skills to be acquired

Identify and relate specific concepts of the History of Art;
Understand the nature of an artistic object;
Knowing how to analyze an artistic object in aesthetic and historical terms;
Understand the evolution of Art in a socio-cultural perspective;
Identify, analyze and understand artistic movements and currents, as well as their main mentors.

Teaching Procedures

Expositional method with use of examples of works of art, followed by critical analyze and reflection.

Programme

Introduction to the fundamental concepts of Art History.
The Artistic Object in a diachronic perspective. Main artistic manifestations and movements prior to the Modern Age (until 1453);
The Modern Age (1453-1789 and the French Revolution);
The Contemporary Age (1789-);
Photography and its role in Art;
The Vanguards in the First Half of the 20th Century;
Bauhaus and its pioneer in Design;
The main movements in the Second Half of the 20th century;
The Harbinger of Art in the 21st Century.

Evaluation Type

It will be in accordance with the General Regulation of Knowledge Assessment of Universidade Lusíada, through two written tests and one frequency at the end of the semester.

Teaching Resources

Digital documentation;
Internet;
Books.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Art;
Emotion;
History;
Contextualization;
Contemporaneity.

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography