Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | CONTEMPORARY ART | ||||||||
Course Unit Code | AART214 | ||||||||
Course Unit Details | |||||||||
Number of ECTS credits allocated | 4 | ||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
| ||||||||
Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||
Prerequisites | AART225 | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||
Course Contents |
Introduction to concepts, and issues such as the artist in society, caricature and the grotesque, realism, women in art, erotic art, art and politics, naive imagery, and popular arts and culture. Introduction to the Art of the Fifties, the influence of the Cold War, the heightened consumerism, and the explosion of mass media as a contextual backdrop Introduction to the New York School and its relationship to post-war ideology; the second generation of Abstract Expressionism and contemporary landscape painting; the rise of an antithetical aesthetic in the art of Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Jasper Johns; the new radicalism as found in the Beat scene, happenings, and underground films. Introduction to the Art of the Sixties. Art and related cultural phenomena of the 1960s. Core material happenings and assemblage, Pop Art, Colour Field, Minimalism, New Technologies and "dematerializing" tendencies of the later part of the decade. Introduction to the Art of the Seventies and of the Eighties; currents and concepts in contemporary art, with emphasis on women artists during the 1980s, and the European contribution to contemporary art. Introduction to the Art of the Nineties and the establishment of London as the world Art Centre and the complete picture of British Art in that decade as an examination of what art is and what it can say. Introduction to Minimal and Conceptual Art, Neo-Dada, Arte Povera and Installation. Introduction to New Media and New Technologies as well as Feminist, Racial and Gay Art. Issues of Curating. The curatorial in Contemporary Art. Mapping the 21st Century. The Social, the Political, the Ethnic and the Economic. Introduction to issues of identity and memory. | ||||||||
Recommended and/or required reading: | |||||||||
Textbooks |
| ||||||||
References | |||||||||
Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The taught part of course is delivered to the students by means of illustrated lectures, conducted with the help of computer presentations. Students’ museum, exhibition and gallery visits are also performed. Illustrated lectures Oral and written exercises, personal historical research, art essay writing, critical discussions and group critiques complement the course. | ||||||||
Assessment methods and criteria |
| ||||||||
Language of instruction | English | ||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |