Undergraduate Course: Modernism and Contemporary Art Practice (ARTX08056)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Modernism and Contemporary Art Practice aims to help students understand the various theoretical, historical and methodological developments within society, culture and art from the mid-19th century to 1970. Throughout the course, tutors will highlight how modernist ideas and concepts still inform contemporary practice.
This course aims to:
Enable you to acquire a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of art since the 19th to the mid-20th century, and its relationship to contemporary art practices.
Help you to develop competence, imagination and understanding when analysing and applying key critical concepts of modernism, relevant to the analysis and production of contemporary art.
To help you understand ways in which modernist ideas have and continue to inform action within popular and mass culture generally, and contemporary art practices in particular.
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| Course description |
N/A Recommended entering "As described in short description"
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research: Undertake appropriate research and show a detailed knowledge of two or more specialist aspects of modernism using a variety of critical and historical approaches.
- Analysis: Demonstrate an applied knowledge of modernist and postmodernist developments both in your field and in relation to their wider cultural influence.
- Communication: Show initiative in managing your work and convey creative ideas in a range of imaginatively structured and coherent forms.
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Reading List
Buchli, V. 2000 An Archaeology of Socialism. Oxford: Berg.
Crowley, D. and J. Pavitt 2008 Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970.
Greenberg, C. 1992 Art and Culture: Critical Essays. Beacon Paperback.
Harrison, C. et al 1998 Art in Theory 1815-1900: An Anthology of Changing Ideas. Oxford: Blackwell.
Harrison, C. et al. Art in Theory 1900-200: An Anthology of Changing Ideas. Oxford: Blackwell.
Hatherley, O. 2010 Militant Modernism. London: Zero Books.
Krauss, R. et al. 2004 Art Since 1900. London: Thames and Hudson.
Wick, 2000 Teaching at the Bauhaus. Ostfildern-Ruit.
Wilk, C. 2008 Modernism: Designing a New World. London: V&A Publications.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Various forms of reading (close, skimming, etc); library research; essay writing; public speaking. |
| Special Arrangements |
After you have discussed taking one of our courses with your Personal Tutor/ School Student Support Office, please contact us to enquire if a place is available at: eca-sso@ed.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Modernism; modernity; art practice; art theory. |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Angela Mcclanahan
Tel: (0131 6)51 5885
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Course secretary | Miss Catriona Morley
Tel: (0131 6)51 5763
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