Undergraduate Course: Themes in Contemporary Art (ARTX10041)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will look at a variety of key themes within contemporary art. The course borrows its structure and starting content from the Whitechapel Gallery series of books 'Documents in Contemporary Art'. In this series of books, topics such as Colour, Beauty, Education, Ruins, Utopia, Participation and the Cinematic are covered, with each book featuring a selection of key artworks and texts. The lecture series will adopt a similar focus and structure. Different lecturers, artists and writers will deliver talks with each presentation focussing on a separate theme from the Whitechapel book series. |
| Course description |
This course will look at a variety of key themes within contemporary art. The course borrows its structure and starting content from the Whitechapel Gallery series of books 'Documents in Contemporary Art'. In this series of books, topics such as Colour, Beauty, Education, Ruins, Utopia, Participation and the Cinematic are covered, with each book featuring a selection of key artworks and texts.
This course will look at a variety of key themes within contemporary art. The course borrows its structure and starting content from the Whitechapel Gallery series of books 'Documents in Contemporary Art'. In this series of books, topics such as Colour, Beauty, Education, Ruins, Utopia, Participation and the Cinematic are covered, with each book featuring a selection of key artworks and texts.
The lecture series will adopt a similar focus and structure. Different lecturers, artists and writers will deliver talks with each presentation focussing on a separate theme from the Whitechapel book series.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research: Research and show a critical understanding and autonomy in identifying of several principal methods of enquiry related to practices and strategies from contemporary art and employ a diverse range of textual sources, images and artefacts.
- Analysis: Demonstrate a critical understanding of complex issues related to contemporary art in the present and justify the methods and practices you use to analyse them.
- Communication: Successfully communicate your original research, analysis and professional initiative in a well structured, coherent and creative form.
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Learning Resources
Modernism Designing a New World, London, V&A Publications (2006) Wilk, C. (ed) A
Utopia and reality : Swedish modernism 1900-1960, Imprint: New Haven : Yale University, c2002. Cecilia Widenheim, ed., Cecilia Widenheim (ed.), Utopia and Reality. Modernity in Sweden 1900-1960, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2002 ECA Lib 745(485)-19-
Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism Rosalind Krauss Hal Foster, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and David Joselit Yve-Al
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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 | Mr John Beagles
Tel: (0131 6)51 5909
Email: j.beagles@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Ellie McCartney
Tel: (0131 6)51 5879
Email: emccartn@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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