Postgraduate Course: Scottish Art Since the 1960s: Practice and Debate (HIAR11066)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | How can we explain the extraordinary international success of Scottish art? In a new 'golden age' in the visual arts in this country, we look first-hand at the singular careers of figures such as Ian Hamilton Finlay, Boyle Family, John Bellany, Alison Watt, Steven Campbell, Callum Innes, Christine Borland, Douglas Gordon and Martin Creed (last two winners of the Turner Prize). This is balanced with close attention to wider critical discourses as powerful lenses to assess their work. This dual approach of on-the-ground encounters with art practice alongside theories initiated by the likes of Barthes, Baudrillard, Derrida, Kristeva, Laing and Pollock, we encounter all-encompassing themes such as sexual and identity politics, deconstruction, nationalism, public space and architecture, the politics of representation, globalization, mass culture and art criticism.
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| Course description |
A popular feature of the course are the seminars held in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (including the private stores and archives) and other cutting-edge galleries and public spaces in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Primary material and curatorial practices come alive in these sessions. We will also visit the acclaimed Scottish Parliament building. Such visits encourage an appreciation of the cultural ecologies that have shaped Scottish art over the last fifty years. By the end of the course, students will have an appreciation of the international transformations in art practice in Scotland and methods for transferring this to their other specialised areas.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 20 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
| Course Start Date |
21/09/2015 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 10,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
166 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
4000 word essay |
| Feedback |
Formative Feedback:
Students will produce a three-page outline of their intended art historical essay topic, with either a short free-text introduction followed by section headings and themes or a single sustained piece of writing on a key artwork that will be discussed in the final course essay. This formative work will be submitted in Week 5. By Week 7 this will be returned to the student by the Course Organiser, with specific comments and a one-to-one meeting to explain the feedback personally and to discuss future assignments.
Summative Feedback:
Students will have a one-to-one meeting with the Course Organiser to discuss the course essay and the written feedback.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a number of artists, exhibitions and/or forms of post-war Scottish visual art within the context of their historical and cultural period
- be confident in using a full range of key critical theories and themes from the 20th Century to the present of relevance to Scottish post-war art
- think independently and self-reflectively, making original connections between familiar and new ideas or material
- develop a number of skills, particularly visual (including observation, description, interpretation, and presentation), research (including use of appropriate methods to locate primary and secondary sources and works of visual art, but also forming research questions and pursuing them autonomously), critical (including selection of relevant material, and appraisal of other people's arguments on the basis of familiarity with source materials and current literature), writing (including use of proper academic conventions, creating logical and structured narratives, and effective use of language to convey particular and general responses of readers or viewers to works of visual art, and to articulate complex conceptual issues and create frameworks for understanding them.)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
None |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Andrew Patrizio
Tel: (0131 6)51 1782
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Jennifer Watson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: |
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