Modern Art (2023/2024: Semester 1 – Fall)

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Cursusdoel

After completing this course students are able to:
  1. Identify and understand a selection of the most important movements and figures in modern art. In doing so, students will also crucially learn the skills necessary to engage works produced by the many makers from this period that we will not directly study.
  2. Grasp varying approaches to and definitions of modern art
  3. Describe modernist works of art both formally and historically
  4. Critically engage with texts through the practice of close reading, written analysis, and discussion of primary and secondary sources.
  5. Actively listen, provide feedback, and collaborate with colleagues
Relationship between assessment and learning goals:

Discussion Leadership (10%). Over the course of the semester each student will collaborate with other students to prepare a short presentation and questions on the readings to help prompt and guide our discussion. (Course Objectives: 4 and 5)
Class Participation (10%). (Course Objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5)
Weekly Response Posts on Blackboard (15%). Each week students will write a short post that critically responds to either the assigned weekly readings or, in some cases, to specific questions that have arisen based on museum visits, previous class discussions or current events. Students are encouraged to directly respond to one another in the posts. Students should post their response the night before our discussion class so that the discussion leader and other students have time to read your post in advance. These posts are an opportunity to pose one or two critical questions or make a connection between the readings, museum visits and/or lectures. Their purpose is to begin the discussion that we will continue as a group in class. (Course Objectives: 2, 4 and 5)
First Essay (Visual Analysis) (15%). With a partner you will choose a work of art to visit and discuss. Based on your in-person experience and observation you and your partner will prepare a short presentation, which will focus on describing this artwork in order to communicate a complete sense of it to people who have not looked at it as closely as you have; you should point to the things in the work that interest you and explain why you think they are significant and also connect them to a broader social, historical, political and/or cultural context. Finally, you will each independently synthesize this in a short essay. (Course Objectives: 1, 3 and 5)
Second Essay (15%) Students will write a second short essay based on an either in person or virtual museum visit and independent research. (Course Objectives: 1, 2, and 3)
Provide Peer Feedback on Essays (5%) Students will provide initial constructive feedback to one another on a first draft of class essays. (Course Objective: 5)
Written Exam (30%) This will test students’ ability to identify and show your understanding of key works of art and artistic movements and your grasp of the various definitions of modernism and debates and key issues within the field. (Course Objectives: 1, 2, 3 and 4)

Vakinhoudelijk

This course examines modern art in Europe and the United States from the late 19th through the 20th century. It includes impressionism, primitivism, cubism, futurism, dada, surrealism, socialist realism, the mural arts movement and abstract expressionism. We will also study the legacy of modernism in more contemporary art such as feminist art and the Black Arts Movement. This course seeks to understand these various movements in art and culture in Europe as well as through their manifestations and counterparts in Mexico, Russia, and the Caribbean and in transcultural contexts such as in African diasporic and Native American art.

Format
The first of the two weekly sessions is a lecture which treats various movements, artists and themes. The second weekly meeting is used to critically discuss the readings and for students to present on artworks.
There are a number of excursions during the course. Destinations can include for instance:
  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and/or Kunsthal, Rotterdam
  • Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Picasso exhibition)
  • Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

Werkvormen

UCU course

Toetsing

Class participation

Verplicht | Weging 10% | ECTS 0,75

Essay 1

Verplicht | Weging 15% | ECTS 1,13

Discussion Leader Presentation

Verplicht | Weging 10% | ECTS 0,75

Weekly Response Posts on Blackboard

Verplicht | Weging 15% | ECTS 1,13

Provide Peer Feedback on Essays

Verplicht | Weging 5% | ECTS 0,38

Essay 2

Verplicht | Weging 15% | ECTS 1,13

*midterm FEEDBACK*

Niet verplicht

Written exam

Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 2,25

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Er moet voldaan zijn aan de cursus:

En er moet voldaan zijn aan minimaal één van de cursussen:

Voorkennis

Er is geen informatie over benodigde voorkennis bekend.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Competenties

  • Academisch schrijven
  • Internationale en interculturele oriëntatie
  • Kritisch lezen
  • Onderzoeksvaardigheden
  • Presenteren
  • Samenwerken

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

  • BOEK
    H.H. Arnason and Elizabeth Mansfield, History of Modern Art, London 2013 (only 7th edition!) ISBN-13: 978-0205259472 ISBN-10: 0205259472

Aanbevolen materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend

Coördinator

dr. T. Zakula T.Zakula1@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. L. Sariaslan l.sariaslan@uu.nl

Inschrijving

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