History of Photography

The course aims to provide students withthe essential historical knoledge and methodological perspective for the in-depht study of Twentieth-Century art researches, based on photography and new media.

- explain the fundamental theoretical and thematic issues concerning the artistic practices based on photography and new media in Twentieth-Century;
- explain the main trends in Contemporary art based on photography and new media in Twentieth-Century;
- analyze artworks based on photography and new media (technic, form, style), according to the specific cultural and historic context and by using an historic or critical method;
- apply different theoretical approaches and methods, getting a specific historiographical methodology to study subjects of lessons.