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Unit I
XIV-XVI Centuries

Transformations in the social, commercial and urban development. Bourgeoisie and the bourgeois spirit. Renaissance: culture, intellectual and humanism. Relationship ancient classic. Artistic innovations. Visual experience and society in the Quattrocento.

Rationalization of pictorial space: artificial perspective. Representation models: model description and narrative Northern Italian. The emblems. Religious images and its communicative function.

Invention of Printing. Conditions of possibility technological, social, economic and cultural. Johann Gutenberg. New conditions of book production: composition, imposition, printing. Incunabula: rupture and continuity with its predecessor, the medieval manuscript. Change the appearance and structure of printed objects: reference systems and registration, writings and illustrations. The woodcut: Invention and features. New formulas and publishers. Aldus Manutius and human editing.


Unit II Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Crisis and tensions of the seventeenth century. Baroque culture. Catholic Counter: art, power and persuasion. painting as propaganda Church and monarchical absolutism. Popular culture and mass culture. France: Baroque and Classical

Eighteenth Century: Rococo and decay of the courtly world. Transition to the modern world: intellectual revolutions, political and economic. Reason and Enlightenment thought: philosophers and Encyclopedia. A new look at antiquity. The Neoclassicism. French Revolution: the fall of the Old Regime monarchy and the triumph of the bourgeoisie. Industrial Revolution and apotheosis of capitalist industrial order. New modes of production: economic and social effects. Alliance art-science-industry. Depending on the image in the new industrial technical nature: high art and scientific illustration and topography. Geographical maps. Images of the King: official representation unorthodox and critical prints.

Print Culture and power: the book Baroque. Font Features of the Old Regime. Censorship, smuggling, and philosophical books banned books. New forms and type styles. The spaces of the book: text and image. Copper engraving. The case of the "Library Blue." The forms and the political situation: pamphlets, "occasional" and "canards."

Unit III
nineteenth century Romanticism

history. Medievalism, Nationalism and expression of subjectivity. English Romanticism: the Pre-Raphaelites and criticism of the effects of the Industrial Revolution. Art in the Victorian era. Universal expositions. The Crystal Palace in London. The realism and the question of reality. Convention Representation and observation. The new realism and social issues. The cartoon and its constitution as a genre in mass media. Impressionism: Painting the instantaneous.

The industrialization of the techniques in the production of books: mechanical press, industrial paper, linotype. Innovations in the reproduction of images: boxwood engraving, lithography, steel engraving, photography, photo. The new readers: children, women and working class. Role

image printed objects. The development of optics and theories of vision. The graphic book. New products, new genres. Romantic vignette. Unit IV


End

century ideological and aesthetic aspects of the thought of William Morris. Morris as a designer. The foundation of Arts & Crafts. Kelmscott Press, a project of maturity. Crisis in bourgeois society, political and cultural transformations. Discussion with historicism. Post-Impressionism: criticism of the classical models of representation. New art forms, new languages. Symbolism, Modernism and the applied arts. The form-function problem. Technology and mass market.

The height of the industrial and urban transformation. Consumption boom: the poster modern advertising. Influence of Japan.

mass culture: popular illustrated newspapers and weeklies. Visual information. The satirical press. The Modern Review. Illustration and book design.