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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: 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 - Blake: The Elohim creating Adam / The Ancient of Days - Constable: ╣ Life and work analysis ╠ The Hay Wain / Hadleigh Castle - Turner: Rain, Steam and Speed / The Shipwreck - Fussli The Nightmare - Friedrich 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 change- Education 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 - 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 - 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

- 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 I rappresentanti di classe Alessandra Mattarello ………………………………….

Crema, 15/05/2013 ……………………………………

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