Undergraduate Course: History of Art Critical Portfolio (HIAR10025)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course gives you the opportunity to develop a portfolio of critical writing over the first semester, and reflect on the practices of art criticism as opposed to art history in the second. |
| Course description |
This course invites you to adopt the role of art critic and to reflect up on the theory and practice of art criticism and its role in the development of art history more broadly. It is an opportunity for you to reflect on and analyse the practices of writing about art and to think critically about practical theoretical and methodological challenges in the field, in the past, present and future. You will have the opportunity to discuss the history of art criticism, its implications for the study of art history, and differing approaches to writing about art.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
History of Art 2 (HIAR08008)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 60 |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
372 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
The Critical Portfolio takes place over two semesters and has two parts:
(1) Review, which is submitted at the end of Semester 1,
(2) Essay, which is submitted at the end of Semester 2.
For the review portion in Semester 1, students are required to write either four short reviews, each 750 words long, or two reviews of 750 words and one longer review of 1500 words (i.e. 3000 words in total).
The essay (3-4000 words) in Semester 2 should reflect both on the experience of writing art criticism and on the nature of art criticism - on art criticism in theory and practice.
There will be opportunities to discuss approaches and subjects for both reviews and essays in peer learning in class as well as with course teachers.
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| Feedback |
Formative and summative feedback will be provided. Students will be asked to complete a short written feed-forward exercise mid-way through each semester and will receive written and verbal feedback at a one-to-one meeting.
Written summative feedback on the reviews and the essays will be provided in a one-to-one meeting.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Have a knowledge of key critical approaches to the visual arts from the eighteenth century to the present day.
- Have gained an understanding of different ways of writing about art in specific historical contexts.
- Have first-hand experience of writing as an art critic.
- Have gained experience in independent research on a topic of their choice related to art criticism.
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Reading List
James Elkins, The State of Art Criticism, New York, (2010)
James Elkins, What Happened to Art Criticism?, Chicago (2003)
Michael Orwicz (ed), Art Criticism and its Institutions in 19th Century France, Manchester (1994)
Lucy Lippard, Essays on Art Criticism, New York, (1971)
Kerr Houston, Introduction to Art Criticism, Boston, (2013)
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/fineart |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
- Visual and critical analysis
- Independent research
- Presentation and communication skills
- Group work
- Organisation and planning
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| Additional Class Delivery Information |
You will meet in two-hour classes every two weeks over the full year.
Seminar/Tutorial Hours = 20
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| Keywords | Art criticism,art writing,visual culture,History of Art. |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Lucy Weir
Tel: (0131 6)51 8500
Email: |
Course secretary | Mrs Sue Cavanagh
Tel: (0131 6)51 1460
Email: |
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