LICEO ARTISTICO STATALE DI CREMA E DI CREMONA “BRUNO

LICEO ARTISTICO STATALE DI CREMA E DI CREMONA
“BRUNO MUNARI”
CLASSE 5D ARCHITETTURA E DESIGN
Lingua e Letteratura Inglese
anno scolastico 2012-2013
prof.ssa Alessandra Mattarello
Programma Svolto
Welcome back to school activity:
Controllo della comprensione dei due testi, in edizione semplificata, assegnati come letture estive:
 “ A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
 “ The Bronte Story” by Tim Vicary
Attività propedeutica all’analisi dei due testi narrativi:
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The Art of Fiction (elementi strutturali di un testo narrativo): plot and story, narrator (first and third person),
setting, themes and moral of a novel.
Detailed chapter analysis
Reading charts : compilazione di schede di lettura dei libri
Compilazione di schede di movies visti in lingua originale
FROM: “New Literary Landscapes – A Short Anthology of Literature in English”
THE ROMANTIC AGE (1760-1837)
The Historical Ground: - the age of revolutions – the Industrial revolution - From the French Revolution to
Napoleonic Wars – Radicalism in Britain and the road to reform
The Literary Ground:
- The first generation of Romantic poets :Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth
- The second generation of Romantic poets: Byron, Shelley and Keats (life and works only)
- William Wordsworth: life and works, Lyrical Ballads, “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
- Samuel Coleridge: life and works
- The novel in the Romantic Age
- Mary Shelley: life and works, Frankenstein: plot, features.
- Jane Austen: life and works, Sense and Sensibility/ Pride and Prejudice: plot, themes.
ART LINK
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Blake:
Constable:
Turner:
Fussli
Friedrich
╣ Life and work analysis ╠
The Elohim creating Adam / The Ancient of Days
The Hay Wain / Hadleigh Castle
Rain, Steam and Speed / The Shipwreck
The Nightmare
The Monk at the Seaside
THE VICTORIAN AGE (1837-1901)
The Historical Ground: -the Age of Empire -economy and society –the pressure for reform – the cost of living –
poverty and the poor laws- Managing the empire - the Victorian compromise- A time of changeEducation in the 1800s
London and crime
The Literary Ground:
- The Victorian novel: a mirror of life
- An early Victorian Novelist (Charles Dickens: life and works, Oliver Twist/A Christmas Carol)
- Tim Vicary: The Bronte Story
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Women’s voice (Charlotte Brontë: life and works, Jane Eyre)
A late Victorian novelist (Oscar Wilde: life and works, The picture of Dorian Gray/ The Canterville Ghost)
ART LINK
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F. George Cotman and his painting: The Dame School
Luke Fildes + painting analysis: Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward
The Pre-Raphaelites:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti + painting analysis : The Annunciation / Lady Lilith / La Ghirlandata
E. Millais + painting analysis: Ophelia
ARCHITECTURE LINK
- John Nash +Park Crescent, London / The Royal Pavilion, Brighton
- The iron and glass architecture in Britain: The Crystal Palace, 1851
- London slums, 1881
- Rich Victorian houses
THE MODERN AGE (1901-1945) AND THE CONTEMPORARY AGE (1945 and after)
The Historical Ground: -A time of War- the last days of optimism, World War I (1914-1918), consequences of the
war, the inter-war years, World War II (1939-1945) The Holocaust; Hiroshima and Nagasaki; cultural transformation
in the early 20th century
ART LINK
- Paul Nash (1889-1946) – painting analysis: The Menin Road
- Edward Hopper – painting analysis : Nighthawks
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Picasso and the cubism; painting analysis: Les D. d’Avignon+Weeping Woman+Guernica
Henry Moore - painting analysis: The Sleeping Shelter
The Pop Art:
Andy Warhol + painting analysis: Marilyn Monroe/ Atomic bomb
Roy Lichtenstein + painting analysis: In the Car/ Whaam
Keith Haring + painting analysis: Untitled/ Haring’s subway
ARCHITECTURE
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British post-war houses
Le Corbusier, the architect + building analysis: Le Cabanon/ Villa Savoie/ Unité d’Habitation
Louis Kahn, the architect + building analysis: Yale University Art Gallery/ Fisher House
Frank Lloyd Wright and the so called Organic Architecture : Kaufmann House / Guggenheim Museum
Renzo Piano, the architect + building analysis: Parco della Musica, Roma / The Sharp, London
Norman Foster, the architect + building analysis: The Great Court at the British Museum, London/ The
City Hall, London/ The Swiss Re Tower, London/ The Millennium Bridge, London
DESIGN
- Bialetti: Moka Express
- Le Corbusier: Fauteuil Modèle Petit Confort/ Chaise Longue/ The Table
- Norman Foster: Nomos Table
Inoltre gli studenti hanno imparato a relazionare in L2 alcuni progetti realizzati durante le
lezioni di Architettura e Design
e, nel triennio, hanno provveduto alla realizzazione di un BOOK personalizzato che raccoglie gli
approfondimenti di carattere storico, letterario, artistico, architettonico e di design.
L’insegnante
Alessandra Mattarello
I rappresentanti di classe
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Crema, 15/05/2013
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