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Undergraduate Course: Myth and History in Scottish Modern and Contemporary Art 1945-2000 (HIAR10034)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryAlthough it might be too much of an exaggeration to claim that there is such a thing as a national school of post-war Scottish art, there is however, undoubtedly a distinctive community of innovative artists - from Joan Eardley to Douglas Gordon, who have clearly discernible personal, professional and art historical connections with Scotland and its cultural traditions and ideological discourses. These Scottish artists make up a loose, but homogenous group and have, against the odds, achieved exceptional success on both the British and International art scenes. This course will survey and critically examine the contextual causes and dominant characteristics of this remarkable phenomenon. The content of the course material will have a broadly balanced approach - between the assessment of the socio-political and critical/theoretical contexts on the one hand, and the detailed examination of seminal works of modern and contemporary Scottish artists on the other. Whenever possible, students will visit displays of Scottish post-war art in Edinburgh.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: History of Art 2 (HIAR08008) OR Architectural History 2A (ARHI08002) AND Architectural History 2B (ARHI08003)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
The central intent of this course is to guide students to analyse and assess in critical depth the striking contrast between those post-war Scottish arts who have a particular obsession with the mythic in their work; and those who, in their different ways, engage with the historical process through various forms of modern realism. Furthermore, students will need to appraise the wide range of artistic media used by these artists - from painting and sculpture to installation and video. The student will need to, not only examine the visual nature of post-war Scottish art, but also study a range of textual sources as well. This aspect of the course will focus on the various modern theories of myth and the historical process. Although there will be a broad chronological framework to the presentation of course material, the main intent is to investigate the complex thematic relationships between post modernism and the primitive, culture and native, man and machine, body and gender, representation and identity, and myth and history.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMr William Hare
Tel:
Email: bill.hare@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Sue Cavanagh
Tel: (0131 6)51 1460
Email: Sue.Cavanagh@ed.ac.uk
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