Undergraduate Course: Popular Art and Folk Culture (ARTX10061)
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 | Folk culture means the traditional culture of ordinary people; the basis of popular art for millennia. This includes proverbial language, tales, legends, magical beliefs, jokes, metaphors; the visual culture of festivals, carnivals, gender, rituals and rites of passage, dreams and nightmares, and the characteristic ways of patterning and communicating these forms and concepts. |
| Course description |
Drawing on research into the history of carnivals and dreams, this course presents an alternative history of art and visual culture, illuminating the synergy between popular art and folk culture, from the cave art of 20,000 years ago to the present day. This is a lecture- based course, with accompanying class discussion. Each lecture will be for one hour, with a one hour scheduled seminar afterwards. The course is arranged in key themes, starting with key general topics (oral culture, dreams, carnivals etc.), and ending with in-depth case-histories (e.g. the virago, the nightmare), which demonstrate how these theoretical perspectives can be applied.
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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:
- Undertake and apply independent research into the forms, visual tradition, media and cultural contexts of popular art and folk culture.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of key issues related to popular art and folk culture, and analyse, evaluate and reflect upon their relationships to contemporary art.
- Clearly communicate a creative selection and historical contextualisation of popular art and folk culture in ways that are well-structured, imaginative and rigorous.
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Reading List
Bakhtin, M. M., (1984). Rabelais and his World. Translated by H. Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Hyman, T. and R. Malbert (eds.), (2000). Carnivalesque. London: Hayward.
Milne, L. S. (2007) Carnivals and Dreams. Pieter Bruegel and the History of the Imagination. London: Mutus Liber.
Milne, L. S. (2017). The Terrors of the Night. Charms Against the Nightmare and the Mythology of Dreams. Incantatio 6.
Turner, V. W. (1964). Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period. In Ritual de Passage. Proceedings |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
CHARACTERISTIC 1: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING :
Demonstrating a critical, detailed and knowledge and understanding of theories and practices related to popular art and folk culture and their relationship to contemporary art practice.
CHARACTERISTIC 2: PRACTICE: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING
Knowledge and understanding that is generated through research that makes a significant contribution to the development of the students Visual Culture and studio based work.
CHARACTERISTIC 3: GENERIC COGNITIVE SKILLS
The ability to critically review, consolidate and extend knowledge, skills, practices and thinking in intersectional theory and practice to contemporary art practice.
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| Keywords | Oral culture,Carnivals,Dream-culture |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Louise Milne
Tel:
Email: louise.milne@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Hannah Morrison
Tel: (0131 6)51 5763
Email: Hannah.PM@ed.ac.uk |
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