Cultural News & general culture

Code Cours
2223-ISTC-L1A-UE1-CULG
Language of instruction
French, English
Teaching content
UE1
This course occurs in the following program(s)
Training officer(s)
D.LEFEBVRE
Stakeholder(s)
G.Druart
Level
Bachelor
Program year
Period

Présentation

Prerequisite
- To know how to use your achievements of the secondary of the general education in history, geography, litterature and arts.
- To be open-minded.
- To read the press, keeping informed.
- To be interested in culture (cinema, concerts, theater, exhibitions, cultural events ...).
Goal
- Optimizing and diversifying your general culture.
- Capitalizing on your knowledge to use them in a professional context.
-Awakening and developping the taste of art history
-Providing the necessary foundations for artistic and cultural discoveries
throughout life
-Gradually learning the method of analysis of works of art
(10 works of art on the program to know imperatively for the final exam)
-Understanding why such context (historical, political, economic, social,
religious-) produced such art forms, between breakage and continuity

This course trains the following professional skills:
- Understanding, analyzing and reading about your environment (general culture) including
international.
- Knowing the trades, learning the technologies and techniques of
communication.
- Developping your personality by insisting on values of integrity, openness,
tolerance and respect.
Presentation
Study of major periods, big movements, big breaks, big names
of the history of art in 6 steps:

1. Prehistory, Antiquity (Egypt, Greece, Rome)

2. Medieval art (Romanesque art, Gothic art, 6th-15th century)

3. The Renaissance (Italian, Flemish Primitives, 15th-16th centuries)

4. Vanities in art, from yesterday to today

5. Modern and contemporary art (20th century: Cubism, Fauvism, Surrealism-)

6. American art (architecture, painting, late 19th-20th century: F. Lloyd Wright, Pop Art,
E. Hopper, M. Rothko-)

Each step begins with the cultural news of the time discussed in recent years.

Modalités

Organization
Type Amount of time Comment
Face to face
15,00
Independent study
Travail personnel indicatif 30,00
Overall student workload 45,00
Evaluation
Control type Duration Amount Weighting
Final Exam
1,30 2 60,00
Continuous assessment
0,00 1 40,00
TOTAL 100,00

Ressources

Bibliography
Histoire de l'art - Ernst Hans Gombrich

-Ernst Hans Gombrich, " Histoire de l'art ", Phaidon, Paris, 2001 (16ème édition française 1997)

L'art et les grandes civilisations - Citadelles & Mazenod

All books from the collection " L'art et les grandes civilisations " éd. Citadelles & Mazenod, Paris

www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde - www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde

www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde (website of French museum collections of the Minister of culture)

Internet resources
Panorama de l'art
www.panoramadelart.com (good to start)
www.histoiredelart.net
www.histoiredelart.net