Enrollment year
2015/2016
Academic discipline
L-ART/04 (MUSEOLOGY AND ART AND RESTORATION CRITICISM)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
ART HISTORY FROM ANTIQUITY TO CONTEMPORARY ART
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (22/02/2016 - 28/05/2016)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide a current overview of the museological and museographic debate on
the basis of historical examples, with particular attention to the events of the collecting in modern
and contemporary periods, to the architecture of the museum, to the policies of communication and
education.
Course contents
Collecting, art criticism and heritage conservation in Italy and Europe, in 19th and 20th centuries.
The course examines the birth and development of museums from the 16th century to the 20th century, with particular attention to art collecting, to the genesis and structure of the cataloging instruments, to art criticism and to politics of museums in Italy and Europe in 19th and 20th centuries.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
Textbooks:
• L. Binni e G. Pinna, Museo. Storia e funzione di una macchina culturale dal Cinquecento a oggi, Garzanti, Milano 1980 and subsequent reprints.
• A. Lugli, Museologia, Jaca Book, Milano 1992 (reprint 1996).
• C. De Benedictis, Per la storia del collezionismo italiano. Fonti e documenti, Ponte alle Grazie, Firenze 1998.
Reference texts for the monographic course:
Bibliography will be announced during the course.
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Further information
Oral examination
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