| CODE | ART2011 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Modern and Contemporary Art | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Art and Art History | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The course focuses on the context that led to the evolution from Modern to contemporary art. The lectures are based on visual culture methods to explore the context and debates surrounding artistic production from the late 19th century to the present. Study-unit Aims: The aim of this study-unit is to bring students in closer contact with the contemporary art scene. The unit is designed to provide a comparative broad overview of contemporary art. Critical analysis, research oriented discussion and debate is expected. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: The study-unit is directed towards a systematic understanding of the relationship between art, recent historical and technological developments and the debates around the role of the artist in a fast-changing world. At the end of the study-unit the student will be in a better position to critically analyse the art-historical, philosophical and theoretical context in which modern and contemporary artists developed their works. 2. Skills: The lectures give the student the necessary skills to appreciate, evaluate and contextualise the contemporary art situation. By the end of the study unit the student will be in a position to appreciate and to deal with the many contradictions inherent in the modern contemporary art scene. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Dawtrey, Jackson, Masterton, Meecham, Wood (eds), Critical Studies and Modern Art, Yale University Press, 1996. - Edwards Steve and Wood Paul, Art and Visual Culture 1850-2010, Modernity Globalisation, Tate publishing, 2012. - Paic, Zarko, Aesthetics and the Iconoclasm of Contemporary Art: Pictures without a world, Cham Springer International Publishing, 2021. - Godfrey, Tony, The story of Contemporary Art, MIT Press, 2020. - Berecz, Agnes, 100 years, 100 artworks: A History of Modern and contemporary art, 2019. - Hoffmann, Jens, Show Time: The fifty most influential exhibitions of Contemporary art, DAP 2014. - Rudd, Natalie, Contemporary Art (Art Essentials), Thames and Hudson, 2023. - J. Robertson, C. McDaniel, Themes of Contemporary Art, Oxford University Press, 2005. - Arthur C. Danto, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Harvard University Press, 1981. - Hans Belting, Art History after Modernism, University of Chicago Press, 2003. - Owen Hatherley, Militant Modernism, Winchester, UK, 2008. - Glenn Adamson, Jane Pavitt (ed) Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990, V&Apublishing, London, 2012. - Jean Robertson, Craig McDaniel, Themes of Contemporary Art, Oxford University Press, 2005. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Matthew Attard |
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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 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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