Postgraduate Course: Contemporary Art (ARTX11012)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (n/a) |
Credits | 40 |
| Home subject area | Art |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
This module examines contemporary art since the end of the 1970s. Relations between critical, promotional and reactionary reconfigurations of postmodernism will be considered by looking at a diverse range of culturally thematic and process-based practices. The conflicting critical and methodological discourses which negotiated such practices will be examined in the context of the contentious international debates regarding the genesis and meaning of postmodernism and globalism.
Aims of course
1 To undertake a systematic and wide-ranging analysis of the principal practices and discourses of contemporary art.
2 To explore those practices and discourses within the context of broader cultural, institutional, political and economic shifts within global culture and society since the late '70s.
3 To interrogate some of the major critical interpretations of art and their theoretical bases produced since the late 70s.
Mode of delivery
Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Online learning via Moodle |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Prohibited combinations
CV110013 Contemporary Art (Exchange) |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: 150 |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. demonstrate their visual literacy and reviewing skills by critically and creatively comparing and contrasting key examples of contemporary art practice.
2. demonstrate an advanced ability to publicly articulate the relations between recent art practices and the broader cultural, political and economic contexts of global culture
3. display a thorough knowledge and understanding of some of the principal debates raised in the interpretation of art and their theoretical and methodological implications since the end of the 1970s. |
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
Minimum grades required for MA with distinction: AABBBC |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
KOCUR, ZOYA. and LEUNG, SIMON. Theory in Contemporary Art: From 1985 to the Present, Blackwell Publishing, 2004. TAYLOR, BRANDON. Art Today, Laurence King Publishing, 2004. FOWLE, KATE To Be Continued>: Contemporary Art Practice in Public Places, B.T. Batsford Ltd, 2003. STALLABRASS, JULIAN. Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art, Oxford University Press, 2004. DOHERTY, CLAIRE. Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation, London: Black Dog, 2004. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 36 hours
Directed study 0 hours
Self-directed study 364 hours
Total 400 hours |
| Keywords | CONTEMPORARY ART, ART THEORY, ART CRITICISM, POSTMODERNISM, GLOBALISATION |
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