
Links:
[1] http://www.iesabroad.org/study-abroad/programs/buenos-aires-advanced-spanish-immersion
[2] http://www.iesabroad.org/study-abroad/programs/buenos-aires-latin-american-societies-and-cultures
[3] http://www.clarin.com/sociedad/arte-actual-devuelve-imagen-
[4] http://www.ramona.org.ar/
[5] http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/cultura/arteargentino/inicio.php
Visual Arts In The City
The aim of this course is to offer a perspective of the Argentine art scene by visiting museums and analyzing art exhibitions. Students—besides immersing themselves into the deep and wide cultural life of the city, and incorporating specific knowledge of argentine visual art—will be able to acquire concepts that will help them understand museums and exhibitions as complex communicational phenomena. The course is divided into three conceptual areas that will merge and combine with each other: The City as an Art Space; Collections in Exhibits and Telling a Story: Individual Artists and Theme Exhibits.
None.
By the end of the course, students are able to:
Classes will be theoretical and practical. Theoretical classes in the classroom, including image and video projections, will be combined with group visits to different exhibitions in the city. Students are expected to maintain a high level of participation throughout the course, analyzing and exchanging ideas about the main concepts and art pieces analyzed in class. Guest speakers will be invited throughout the course: Curators, exhibition designers, museum directors as well as other experts on Argentine art.
Midterm exam (25%): take-home exam on the theoretical readings of the course.
Final exam (35%): final paper based on a critical analysis of an exhibition visited during the course, according to the theoretical concepts studied in the readings. The instructor will help students in choosing the exhibition they will focus. Individual meetings to discuss and justify their choice, compilation of new sources as a complement of the course readings, etc. will take place. The essay presentation will have two stages: 1) hypothesis and bibliography. 2) final presentation.
Readings (20%): on-going theoretical readings will be assigned for group presentations.
Reports (10%): Students will write brief reports on visited exhibitions in a blog, which will be published for the whole IES Abroad community to see.
Class participation (10%): students are expected to maintain a high level of class participation.
Session 1: Introduction of the artistic scene of Buenos Aires.
Readings:
Session 2: Theoretical Framework I and Introduction to urban art
Readings:
Session 3: Urban Art, The city as an exhibition area.
Guests: graffiti artists
Case study: Curatorial strategies for the exhibition of Ficus Repens Enamorados del muro (Palais de Glace, 2008)
Field study: Guided tour through the city
Readings:
Session 4: Theoretical Framework II
Field Study: Exhibit Berni: narrativas argentinas - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Readings:
Session 5: Group discussion about the Berni exhibit.
Field Study: Colección Fortabat
Readings:
Session 6: Fieldtrip: Panteón de los héroes. Historias, próceres y otros en el arte contemporáneo.
Fundación Osde.
Session 7: Fieldtrip: Fotografía documental y artes visuales de la argentina 1850-2010. Centro cultural Recoleta.
Session 8: Paper assignment: Hypothesis and bibliography. Individual meetings.
Session 9: Telling a story: artists theme exhibitions
Special class: Perspective on Argentine contemporary photography. Lecturer: Mariela Delnegro (UBA)
Field Study: Las Pampas: Arte y Cultura en el Siglo XIX. Fundación PROA
Readings:
Session 10: Fieldtrip: Colección Fortabat
Session 11: Review.
Session 12: Pop art in Argentina
Field Study: Retrospectiva Marta Minujín. Malba – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
Readings:
Session 13: Group discussion about the Minujin exhibit.
Readings:
Session 14: Review, and Conclusion of semester
(Note: Professor reserves the right to change syllabi and readings as needed.)
General
Specific
Revista Ramona de Artes Visuales/Archivo
http://www.ramona.org.ar/ [4]
Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino
http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/cultura/arteargentino/inicio.php [5]
Isabel Plante is Ph.D. in Art History (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and researcher at the Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales (IDAES) of Universidad Nacional de San Martín. She has coordinated developments of cultural affaires in Fundación Antorchas. She currently teaches ―Relatos curatoriales II‖ at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. She has also published a number of papers about art history and twentieth century visual culture. She is also part of the editor committee of Blanco sobre blanco.