Course Introduction à l'histoire de l'art [Introduction to Art History]
Course offered to bachelor’s-level students of digital creation and video games at the CREASUP school in Tonnerre, Burgundy.
Total effective teaching time: 36 hours per semester.
Abstract: This introductory course presents the main lines of the history of art, from Antiquity to the twentieth century: Mesopotamia, ancient Greece (archaic and classical), Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the early modern period and the twentieth century. The aim is to understand the very different nature of the bond that each of these peoples wove with artistic practice, while discovering the characteristic forms they produced and their function. Particular attention is paid to the way in which video game creators, driven by various interests, appropriate historical elements and, through different strategies, mobilize them in the service of gameplay.
Semester course, taught in both semesters since 2024-2025.
Cite this pageCórdoba, Pablo-Martín. “Course Introduction à l'histoire de l'art [Introduction to Art History]”. In Making Digital Images in the Light of Experimental Cinema — Anthropological and Political Resonances of Algorithms in Contemporary Art, Doctoral thesis in visual arts and photography, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Doctoral School EDESTA (no. 159), research unit AIAC, 2026. https://www.pablomcordoba.com/thesis/course-introduction-a-l-histoire-de-l-art-introduction-to-art-history/