High Culture and Low in the Modern Arts
People
Course director
Description
Among the most important phenomena of modernity is the blurring of the sharp distinction between high culture and popular culture that for centuries supported the system of the arts. Faced with a growing “aesthetic democracy” of the bourgeois world, high art has to respond to a public that no longer coincides with the exclusive upper classes, which traditionally commissioned works by artists, architects, and writers. While modernism and the avant-gardes claimed an independence that refused to make concessions to the public’s imagination, the artistic languages (historicism, kitsch, pop, postmodernism...) spread various forms of hybridisation between high culture and a culture that began as “low” and has progressively become mass culture. The course explores these artistic languages.
Objectives
To prepare for professional work that is attentive to contemporary aesthetics.
Teaching mode
In presence
Learning methods
100% Lectures
Examination information
Oral during the exam session
Education
- Master in Storia e teoria dell’arte e dell’architettura (120 ECTS), Lecture ex cathedra, Elective course, Elective, 1st year (3.0 ECTS)
- Master of Science in Architecture, History and theory of art and architecture, Historical-humanistic facultative courses, 1st year
- Master of Science in Architecture, History and theory of art and architecture, Historical-humanistic facultative courses, 2nd year
