HISTORY OF ART: ART AND SOCIETY

Course Information
TitleΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΤΕΧΝΗΣ: ΤΕΧΝΗ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ / HISTORY OF ART: ART AND SOCIETY
CodeΑΙΤ501
FacultyPhilosophy
SchoolHistory and Archaeology
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter/Spring
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600019220

Programme of Study: PPS Tmīmatos Istorías kai Archaiologías 2020-2021

Registered students: 16
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
ARCΗAIOLOGIAS KAI ISTORIAS TĪS TECΗNĪSSpecialization Core Courses747
Class Information
Academic Year2025 – 2026
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Total Hours39
Class ID
600278636
Course Type 2021
Specialization / Direction
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
  • English (Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course students will have immersed themselves in a wide range of contemporary art trends, from abstraction and pop art to post-minimalism, conceptual art, and performance art, will have understood the relationship between artistic projects or initiatives and the social, ideological and political conditions of their time, and will be able to think critically about the role of art in the contemporary world. Evaluation is based on written exams. Students’ participation in discussions and presentations in the classroom is also taken into account. There is the possibility of an optional written essay.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in an international context
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course focuses on the theme “Art and social movements in the second half of the 20th century”. It analyzes the relationship between art and society through presentation of various works and actions of artists associated with movements such as the civil rights and the anti-war movement in the USA, the anti-colonial movement in Africa, the feminist, the gay and the environmental movements in Europe and America. The lectures examine works of painting, sculpture and photography, as well as three-dimensional constructions, installations, site-specific works, performances and videos, which in direct or indirect ways highlight the struggles against social inequalities, criticize expansionist politics and military interventions, raise environmental issues, explore maters of racial, gendered or sexual identities.
Keywords
art of the 20th century, social movements (civil rights, anti-war, anti-colonial, feminist, gay, environmental
Educational Material Types
  • Slide presentations
  • Multimedia
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures1304.3
Written assigments602
Exams200.7
Total2107
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Summative)
  • Written Assignment (Summative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
1) Foster Hal, Krauss Rosalind, Bois Yve - Alain, Buchloh Benjamin H. D., Η τέχνη από το 1900, Επίκεντρο 2013. 2) John Berger, Η εικόνα και το βλέμμα, Μεταίχμιο 2022. 3) John Walker, Η τέχνη στην εποχή των μέσων μαζικής επικοινωνίας, University Studio Press 2010.
Last Update
26-09-2025