| CODE | ALA2211 | ||||||
| TITLE | Art Criticism | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Arts, Open Communities and Adult Education | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will provide the students with an understanding of the history of art criticism, with a special emphasis on the twentieth century. Students then explore different approaches to art criticism and will address the related problems of description, interpretation and evaluation. Critical skills are also nurtured by encouraging the students to practise the process of criticism. Students visit art exhibitions, write critiques of different artists’ work and also study critical essays in local and/or international papers. Learning outcomes: - Studying critical essays by well-known art critics in the history of art - Learning the different processes of art criticism, namely description (focusing on formal, iconographic and other aspects of works of art), interpretation and evaluation/comparison. - Learning how to write art criticism by practising it in relation to current art exhibitions that are visited during the course Reading List: - Edmund Burke Feldman, Practical Art Criticism, Prentice Hall, 1994; - T. Barrett, Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary, Mayfield Publishing Company, 2000. Other texts updated regularly. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Range of Acceptable Students: Offered to B.Ed (Hons) Art students. A Pass at Advanced Level at Grade C or better in Art or equivalent from a foreign university. Only 10 students will be registered for this study-unit including B. Ed. Art students. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Raphael Vella |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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