| CODE | DGA1013 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Comparative Approaches to Art, Design and Visual Culture | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Digital Arts | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit presents a holistic and interdisciplinary approach through which it will be possible to analyse and understand the artistic movements of the twentieth century. The history of design, ranging from graphic design to fashion, from film to product design, will be confronted and linked with the coeval artistic and architectonic productions, in order to understand how the different creative sectors were, and still are, bound together. For these reasons, the study-unit will garner together critical information from practices and disciplines from architecture, design, history of art, history of fashion, social theory, film and literature. This knowledge will be historically contextualized in order to evaluate social and cultural impact by the creative on society in general. The study-unit will therefore examine the avant-gardes of the beginning of the twentieth century (such as Futurism, Expressionism and Constructivism); the School of the Bauhaus and the De Stjil; Surrealism; Informel; Pop Art; and Postmodernism. A discussion of the latest contemporary trends will conclude the study-unit. Study-Unit Aims: This study-unit aims to: - Situate artistic and design movements within their social and historical context; - Distinguish between and compare the main characteristics of each movement; - Develop a multidisciplinary attitude in the student's way of thinking and producing; - Guide students into an interdisciplinary approach to the study of visual arts and design. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Reflect on the historical, social and cultural relevance of each artistic movement; - Read and recognise the main formal aspects of a work of art; - Reflect on the contribution that different movements and disciplines provide during the creative process. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Identify the predominant aspects of an artistic movement; - Explain the main differences between different artistic movements; - Recognise the differences running between crafts, design and a work of art; - Mark the continuities running between fashion, art, architecture, films and design, during a specific historical time frame. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Text: - Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Art Since 1900_ Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, Thames & Hudson (2004). Supplementary Readings: - C. Harrison, P. Wood, Art in Theory, 1900-2000, Wiley, 2003. - K. Frampton, Modern Architecture: A Critical History, Thames&Hudson, 2007. - V. Steele, Fifty Years of Fashion, Yale Univesity Press, 2000. - Philip B. Meggs, A History of Graphic Design, Wiley, 1998. - E. Crispolti, Il Futurismo e la Moda. Balla e gli altri, Marsilio, 1986. - S. Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film, Princeton University Press, 2004. - F. Whitford, Bauhaus, 1984. - G. Adamson, J. Pavitt, Postmodernism: Style and Subversion: 1970-1990, Victoria & Albert Museum, 2011. A coursepack will be given to students at the beginning of the study-unit through VLE. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Gabriel Zammit |
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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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