Postgraduate Course: Contemporary Art Theory (ARTX11040)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Art |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course enables you to consider your contribution to the field of contemporary art. Each year, three themes in contemporary art practice and theory are identified for group research. The themes focus your consideration of contemporary art's increasingly diverse subject-matter, geographies, ecologies and processes. Crits and tutorials help you to critically re-assess current issues in contemporary art and to re-conceptualise and present your relationship with this rapidly expanding field in action-research.
Aims of the Course:
1.To generate an action-based research environment that enables staff and students to learn together.
2. To enable you to undertake a systematic analysis of three themes emerging in the practices and discourses of contemporary art.
3. To enable you to engage with and make a contribution to the field of contemporary art.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
15/09/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 9,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 17,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours .5,
Summative Assessment Hours .5,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
169 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. On completion of this course, you will be able to:
L01: Demonstrate a highly developed command of visual and material literacy and an imaginative critical faculty.
2. L02: Successfully engage your peers in discussions that articulate the relationships between contemporary art practices and related theories and discourses.
3. L03: Apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to principle theories and discourses at the forefront of contemporary art. |
Assessment Information
Assignment 1 - Presentations & Workshops: Each seminar group will be subdivided into small teams. Each team will present each week on two assigned research resources made available online. Your presentations should successfully engage your peers in discussions that articulate the relationships between contemporary art practices and related theories and discourses. Presentations should demonstrate a highly developed command of visual literacy and an imaginative critical faculty. Every third week you will participate in a workshop that will apply what you have learned in the two preceding seminars.
Assignment 2 - Essay: You will submit an essay that applies critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to principle theories and discourses at the forefront of contemporary art. Your essay should demonstrate a highly developed command of visual and material literacy and an imaginative critical faculty.
Weighted equally by Learning Outcomes
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
- Lecture Programme on Issues in
Contemporary Art
- Seminar Programme uses moodle-based research resources
- Three workshops in which students
engage in action-research.
Indicative subjects:
1. Education: Art School
2. Education: Unlearning
3. Education: Workshop
4. Artwriting: Artists' Writing
5. Artwriting: After Art Criticism
6. Artwriting: Workshop
7. Artworlds: Ontologies
8. Artworlds: Hypereconomics
9. Artworlds: Workshop
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| Transferable skills |
¿ By researching in groups and working towards common goals you will learn social skills and negotiating skills, understand accountability and appreciate alterity.
¿ You will learn extradisciplinary skills, an understanding how to gain an applied knowledge of disciplines that are relevant to your research by engaging with case studies.
¿ You will learn a range of artwriting and publishing skills; working with IT, social and print media. These skills relate to the distribution of their work.
¿ You will learn pedagogical and mentoring skills; how to write workshops in relation to your own practice and to the practices of contemporary art.
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| Reading list |
¿ ELKINS, James. Why Art Cannot Be
Taught, University of Illinois Press,2001.
¿ MADOFF,Steven Henry,Art School:
(Propositions for the 21st Century}, MIT Press,2009.
¿ KOCUR,ZOYA. and LEUNG, SIMON.
Theory in Contemporary Art: From 1985
to the Present, Blackwell Publishing,
2004.
¿ THORNTON, Sarah,Seven Days in Art
World, Granta,2008.
¿ TAYLOR, BRANDON. Art Today, Laurence
King Publishing, 2004.
¿ FOWLE, KATE To Be Continued>:
Contemporary Art Practice in Public
Places, B.T. Batsford Ltd,2003.
¿ RANCIERE,Jacques,The Future of the
Image, Verso,2009.
¿ VIRILLIO, Paul,Art and Fear, Continuum,
2003.
¿ JULIAN.Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art, Oxford University Press,2004.
¿ DOHERTY, CLAIRE. Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation, London: Black Dog,2004.
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Students attend related lectures,present at seminars and workshops,attend related research groups and submit a final paper. |
| Keywords | contemporary art; art theory; aesthetics; art market; artist-led |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Neil Mulholland
Tel: (0131 6)51 5881
Email: n.mulholland@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lizzie Robertson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5852
Email: lizzie.robertson@ed.ac.uk |
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