| CODE | AAH2035 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Twentieth-Century Visual Culture | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Art and Art History | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will discuss the imagery of the 20th and 21st centuries from a Visual Cultural perspective. This innovative field of study promotes the concept that images must be studied within a wide-raging context that includes areas typically dealt with in Art History but extends its interests to other areas not usually investigated by Art historians, including popular culture, ways of thinking, and technology, amongst others. In the process the investigation also delves in the producer-consumer relationship. Study-unit Aims: - Present the many investigative possibilities offered by Visual Cultural studies; - Analyse specific works of art within the parameters of this discipline; - Look into and investigate the art and images of the last 150 years within an alternative frame of research. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Discuss approaches employed by different scholars in the field of Visual Culture, namely, Michael Baxandall, Svetlana Alpers, John Berger, W.J.T.Mitchell, Griselda Pollock and Nicholas Mirzoeff; - Discuss the extent of research offered by Visual Culture as an academic discipline; - Analyse works of art not solely on their own merits but as a means to understand the relations between art and the wider world; - Define Visual Culture as a field of study. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Discuss the research possibilities inherent in Visual Culture; - Familiarse oneself with the time-bracket under study; - Discuss in a learned manner the period under inverstigation; - Write coherently and informatively about the subject investigated; - Question intelligently the parameters of the methodology used; - Present interestingly the research carried out. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts • Mirzoeff, Edwards Steve and Wood Paul (eds), Arts & Visual Culture 1850-2010, Modernity and Globalization, Tate Publishing , 2012. • Cassar, Joseph Paul, Pioneers of Modern Art in Malta, Volumes I and 2, Malta 2010 and 2019 respectively. Supplementary Texts • Nicholas, How to See the World, A Pelican Introduction, Penguin Random House, 2015. • Jenks, Carl (ed.), Visual Culture, Routledge, 1995. • Mirzoeff, Nicholas (ed.), The Visual Culture Reader, Second edition, Routledge 2002. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Fieldwork | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Christian Attard |
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