Undergraduate Course: Narrative in Contemporary Art (ARTX10044)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Historically, much of art has been narrative, that is, it depicted stories from myth, legend, religion, history and literature. Modernism rejected narrative, but in recent years the role of narrative in art and wider culture, such as the news for example, has become a concern for artists and theorists across a range of subject areas.
This course will help you to explore and develop your sense of visual narrative in the widest context. It will ask how images, objects, spaces and exhibitions can tell stories with or without accompanying words. Narrative perspectives of the artist, the audience and the visual form itself will be examined to aid your understanding of the visual culture around you, and your role as a maker in its creation.
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| Course description |
As per the summary course description.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research: Research and show a critical understanding and autonomy in engaging with narrative theory and how it relates to the analysis of images.
- Analysis: Demonstrate a critical understanding of complex issues in relation to how narrative is used in contemporary art practice, as well as how it is employed to analyse images in art and everyday culture.
- Communication: Successfully communicate your original research, analysis and professional initiative in a well structured, coherent and creative form.
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Reading List
Mike Brennan (n/d) Neo-narration: stories of art in: Modern Editions [available at http://www.modernedition.com/art-articles/neo-narration/neo-narration.html]
Cobley, P. (2001) The New Critical Idiom: Narrative. London
Currie, Mark (1998) Postmodern Narrative Theory. Hampshire, Palgrave.
Herman, David. (2007) The Cambridge companion to narrative [electronic resource] Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Herman, David et al. (eds.) (2008) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Cornwall, Routledge.
Hühn, Peter et al. (eds): The living handbook of narratology. Hamburg: Hamburg University Press. http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/lhn
Image & Narrative online journal http://www.imageandnarrative.be/
Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen (2006) Reading Images.The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge
Mitchell, W.J.T. (ed) (1981) On narrative. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Research methods, self motivated practice, collaboration, negotiation, critical evaluation. |
| Keywords | Visual culture,critical evaluation,presentation,research. |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ruth Pelzer
Tel: (0131 6)51 5884
Email: r.pelzer@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Margaret Milner
Tel: (0131 6)51 5879
Email: m.milner@ed.ac.uk |
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