Subject 'History of Sculpture. From Dada to Surrealism'

Year:   2015/2016    2016/2017    2017/2018    2018/2019    2019/2020    

This course focuses on the specifics of Dada and Surrealism in the modern sculpture and their new developments in the middle of the 20th century and in the 21th century and the resulting diversification of the notion of the sculptural object and its increasing, more direct and reflective connection with the community processes, existential concerns and the perception mechanisms of a human subject. This theoretical course includes generating the so-called idea project for the creative work.

Upon completion of the course, students will:
• be familiar, understand and value the significant contribution of Dada ready-made to the development of the content and form of sculpture, and be able to analyse new relation strategies of conception and form;
• be familiar, understand and value the contribution of Dada to the development of the social critical trend of sculpture, and have enhanced their knowledge and experience in the social analysis of the art work;
• be familiar, understand and value different automatism and assemblage strategies of Surrealism in sculpture;
• have the basic experience of applying the psychoanalytical analysis method in the analysis of sculptural work;
• have enhanced their perception and sensory experience through the formalist analysis of specific (Neo)Dada and (Neo)Surrealistic forms;
• be familiar with the most important form and installation artists of (Neo)Dada and (Neo)Surrealism and their works;
• be able to analyse the (Neo)Dada and (Neo)Surrealistic genetic roots in the contemporary (post) post-modernist sculpture, and to appropriate the strategies suitable for themselves;
• be interested in the social critical and psychoanalytical or in other words, on the one hand in the community-centred and, on the other hand, the individual-centred approaches, and be familiar and perceive their differences and mutual mechanisms.

2015: 2263  

2014: 2263