Undergraduate Course: Modernism, Postmodernism and Beyond in Contemporary Art (ARTX08062)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Modernism, Postmodernism and Beyond in Contemporary Art aims to help you understand the various theoretical, historical and methodological developments within society, culture and art from the mid 19th century to the present. Throughout the course, tutors will highlight how the ideas and concepts arising from the social, political and historical elements of this period inform contemporary practice. |
| Course description |
This course introduces you to key histories, movements, concepts and approaches applied by artists and theorists from the 19th-20th Centuries. You will learn what knowledge and research are in their widest sense, and investigate what kinds of specialist research are said to take place in the arts. You will learn how to examine and test the wide range of critical strategies that constitute contemporary artistic practice. This will enable you to begin exploring and applying a variety of critical approaches used in the analysis and production of the visual arts.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2016/17, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 131 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 10,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 9,
External Visit Hours 2,
Online Activities 4,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
169 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Relationship between Assessment and Learning Outcomes:
Both elements of assessment require students to amass appropriate resources by investigating the field using appropriate primary and secondary resources, which requires critical reflection on the themes of the course, as well as communicating their relevance to the subjects under scrutiny in a clear and cogent manner.
Annotated Resource list and essay proposal (30%) due in week 6 and Essay (70%), due in Week 13. Each learning outcome to be equally weighted on both submissions. Students must submit for both elements of assessment in order to pass the course. |
| Feedback |
Feed forward is built into the initial submission, which will feed into the final essay, Feedback will be written and verbally delivered during Seminars. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research: Undertake appropriate research and show a detailed knowledge of historical and theoretical themes relating to 19th-21st Century art practices, using a variety of critical and historical approaches.
- Analysis: Demonstrate an applied knowledge of Modernist and postmodern developments as they apply to contemporary art practices, art works or exhibitions.
- Communication: Show initiative in managing your work and convey creative ideas in a range of imaginatively structured and coherent forms.
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Learning Resources
Modernism: Indicative Bibliography
Adorno, T. (transl. 1991) The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture. London: Routledge.
Adorno, T. (transl. 2002) Essays on Music. Berkeley: University of California.
Benjamin, W. 1936 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htmChadwick,
W. 2002 Women, art, and society. New York: Thames & Hudson.
Clark, T.J. 1999 Farewell to an Idea. London: Yale University Press.
Cottington, D. 2005 Modern Art ¿ A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: University Press.
Crow, T. 1996 Modern Art in the Common Culture. London: Open University Press.
Fer, B. Batchelor & Wood E. 1993 Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism ¿ Art between the Wars. London: Open University Press.
Foster, H. ed. (2004) Art since 1900: Modernism, Anti Modernism,
Postmodernism. London: Thames & Hudson.
Frascina & Harris. Ed. (1992) Art in Modern Culture. London: Phaidon.
Greenberg, C. 1992 Art and Culture: Critical Essays. Beacon Press.
Harrison, C. 1997 Modernism. London: Tate Gallery.
Harrison, C & Wood, P. ed. 2003 Art in Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
Harrison, Frascina, Perry. Ed. 1993 Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction ¿ The early Twentieth Century. London: Open University Press.
Hatherley, O. 2010 Militant Modernism. New York: Zer0 Books.
Latour, B. 1991 We Have Never Been Modern. Harvard University Press.
Lechte, J. 1994 Fifty Key thinkers from Structuralism to Postmodernity. London: Routledge.
Meecham, P & Sheldon, J. 2000 Modern Art: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge.
Perry, G. 1999 Gender and Art. Yale University Press.
Wilk, Christopher 2006 Modernism: Designing a New World. London: V&A.
Wood, P. 2004 Varieties of Modernism. Yale: The Open University.
Wood, Frascina, Harris, Harrison (eds.) 1993 Modernism in Dispute ¿ Art Since the Forties. London: Open University Press. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Research methods, self motivated practice, collaboration, negotiation, critical evaluation. |
| Keywords | Visual culture,Modernism,postmodernism,historiography,critical evaluation,presentation,research. |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ruth Pelzer
Tel: (0131 6)51 5884
Email: r.pelzer@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Ellie Mccartney
Tel: (0131 6)51 5879
Email: emccartn@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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