| CODE | AAH1101 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Introduction to Fine Art Practice | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Art and Art History | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit provides students with the necessary theoretical and practical grounding for developing a reflexive fine art practice. Through a combination of lectures and practical hands-on sessions students will be introduced to thinking-through-making strategies. Largely based on visual culture studies, critical theory and contemporary art, students will be systematically provoked to reflect on their chosen manner and materials of production and the subsequent meaning that arises from their creative projects. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims at: i. introducing students to a breadth of different approaches to artistic practice; ii. helping students develop a critical approach to creative production; iii. guiding students through a broad understanding of new media, tools and working methods; iv. promoting a reflexive attitude in practitioner-students. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Critically reflect on their personal practice; - Define key issues defining the contemporary art world; - Describe better the socio-cultural factors contributing to the various meaning-making processes that define the relationship between artist, audience and context of artistic production. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Develop the ability to reflect on one’s own artistic references and practice; - Provide a basic overview of contemporary art context; - Develop a multi-perspectival approach to fine art processes. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Stallabrass, J., Contemporary art: a very short introduction, Oxford U.P., 2020 - Wiley, C. & Pace, I., Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists: Challenges, Practices, and Complexities, Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2020 - Wilson, M., How to read contemporary art, Thames & Hudson, 2013. Supplementary Texts: - Atteqa, A., Collaborative praxis and contemporary art experiments in the MENASA region, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 - Bakargiev, C., Cream 3: contemporary art in culture: 10 curators, 100 contemporary artists, 10 source artists, Phaidon, 2003 - Gardner, A. & Green, C., Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta: The exhibitions that Created Contemporary Art, Chicester: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Practical | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Matthew Attard Gilbert Calleja |
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