Modern Thought and Artistic Practices

This subject aims to introduce the study and reflection on the most relevant theoretical and conceptual frameworks for artistic practices in Modernity, paying particular attention to the period from the turn of the 19th to the 20th century up to its progressive crisis in the post-war of the 2nd World War. To do this, it examines the relationship that art established with philosophy, society, history, and the culture of the time in a moment of profound transformation of the world and our way of knowing it. Understood as an experimental laboratory and with a critical look at the historiographic discourse, the subject offers a context of discussion and interdisciplinary analysis that allows to reconstruct a link between the artistic practices of the past and the present.

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