University of Bordeaux

This course focuses on the arts of the nineteenth century including prints and photography. The course is divided into two parts, one devoted to the history of printmaking in the nineteenth century, and the second to the history of photography over the same period. The objective of this course is to raise awareness of the art of photography and printmaking, to show the diversity and richness of the issues that are associated with these fields of research, especially for the nineteenth century, a century of progress and innovation, in which the image is part of an industrial logic that redistributes power in the relation between quality, profitability, and dissemination. This history is built by studying the artistic production in the basis of the structures and the uses and the relationship between photography and print, as multiplied fine arts. This course aims to help develop skills of the ability to make historical and technical references of visual culture and image analysis. Moreover, the ability to contextualize the images of the multiple, develop knowledge of the vocabulary specific to these areas of creation, and understand the issues related to these fields of research and of objects of study related to the art market.

This course presents the instruments of cyclical economic policy (fiscal policy, monetary policy, exchange rate policy) by linking to major contemporary theories and economic debates. The course defines effects in open or closed economies while examining inflation, unemployment, the money market, and public debt.

This class is concerned with the use of communications in urban settings. The class also studies the use of communication to facilitate the development of cities.

This course provides an introduction to the Italian Renaissance, a major cultural and artistic phenomenon, which deeply marked Europe between 1400 and 1600. Initiated in Florence where it flourished in the first decade of the fifteenth century (Quattrocento), it quickly spread to all major Italian courts and eventually throughout Europe. This course introduces the student to the history of the Renaissance in Italy in the fifteenth century and provides them with a solid foundation of historical knowledge as well as visual references in the history of modern art. The sessions cover, in turn, the heritage of international Gothic, the rise of the great urban centers of the Italian Renaissance (Florence and Rome but also Venice, Mantua, Ferrara, and Milan) and the work of major artists, including Botticelli, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Raphael, and da Vinci. The lectures are supplemented by discussions during which the students delve deeper into the themes, concepts, and works in progress as well as the foundations of the commentary methods on the works (sculpture, architecture, painting, decorative arts) in art history.