The course presents a series of preparatory lessons aimed at defining the guidelines of the history of contemporary art. In particular, preparatory lessons are planned to define the guidelines of the history of contemporary art from impressionism to the most recent experiences. During the lessons we provide, through the analysis of some basic figures and joints, the contexts, the foundational texts, the works, the main interpretations that allow the student an adequate approach to the problems of contemporary art, to its fundamental concepts , to the protagonists, to the new languages, to the new hermeneutical models involved, to the new technologies.
The course will be spend particular attention to praxis of art towards environmental trespassing, the aspiration to transform itself into a practice that is hybrid with the space of everyday life, and to the relationship between art and architecture, between art and environment and landscape (city and nature) during the 20th and 21th centuries.

Students in regular attendance
1. G.C. Argan, L’Arte Moderna 1770-1970. L’arte oltre il Duemila, Sansoni (various editions)
2. E. Cristallini, Dialoghi tra arte e architettura negli anni della ricostruzione 1945-1955, Gangemi, 2017

Students not in regular attendance
In addition to the texts indicated above, it's necessary to study the following volumes:
1. M. De Micheli, Le avanguardie artistiche del ‘900, Feltrinelli (various editions)
2. E. Cristallini (a cura di), Avanguardie del dopoguerra 1945-1952, Lithos, 1999