Session	Dates	Price
Fall Semester 2009 - Language and Electives	Late August - Mid December 2009	TBA
Academic Year 2009-2010 - Language and Electives	Late August 2009 - Late June 2010	TBA

Full Description

OBJECTIVES
To know and understand the artistic movements that have occurred from the French Revolution until today.

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The student will pursue the following individual objectives:
1. To identify the message that each contemporary artistic movement attempts to transmit.
2. To know the most characteristic features of each artist in relation to the artistic movement to which he or she belongs.
3. To explore the intentions of the artists both in the formal as well as in the symbolic levels.
4. To connect the influence of the historical environment (social, political and economic factors) with the development of artistic movements.
5. To put the most relevant artistic movements in chronological order and relate them to each other.
6. To understand the basis of present-day artistic movements.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
ARGAN, G.C.: El arte moderno, 1770-1970. Akal, Madrid 1991.
BENEVOLO, L.: Historia de la arquitectura moderna. Gustavo Gili, Barcelona 1982.
GOMBRICH, E.H.: La Historia del Arte. Debate, Madrid 1997.
MICHELI, M.: Las vanguardias artísticas del siglo XX. Alianza, Madrid 1999.

METHODOLOGY
Commentary on works of art displayed in class.

EVALUATION
90% exam, with commentary on images and 12 questions. 10% group assignment on contemporary artistic movements.