Module Details
| Module Code: |
ARTS6002 |
| Title: |
Art History:19th-20th Century
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Long Title:
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Art History:19th-20th Century
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| NFQ Level: |
Fundamental |
| Valid From: |
Semester 1 - 2017/18 ( September 2017 ) |
| Field of Study: |
2110 - Visual Arts
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| Module Description: |
This module will incorporate a series of introductory sessions in three separate but related strands: Lecture Courses: Form and Meaning in Early Modern Art; Victorian popular culture; and, regular seminars, based on a rotating programme of short seminar based discussions on the following themes: Beauty, Culture and Power; Material objects; Theorizing Film; the application of Design in recent Irish Culture.
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| Learning Outcomes |
| On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to: |
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Learning Outcome Description |
| LO1 |
Discuss and evaluate art, design or popular culture in their 19th and 20th century contexts. |
| LO2 |
Discuss and evaluate 19th century cinema and popular culture. |
| LO3 |
Structure and present their thinking and knowledge clearly through written assignments. |
| LO4 |
Analyse a work of art, an art movement, or an example of architecture, film or design. |
| LO5 |
Discuss and evaluate the chronology, key figures & movements in art, architecture or design of the period. |
| Dependencies |
Module Recommendations
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is strongly recommended before enrolment in this module. You may enrol in this module if you have not acquired the recommended learning but you will have considerable difficulty in passing (i.e. achieving the learning outcomes of) the module. While the prior learning is expressed as named MTU module(s) it also allows for learning (in another module or modules) which is equivalent to the learning specified in the named module(s).
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Incompatible Modules
These are modules which have learning outcomes that are too similar to the learning outcomes of this module. You may not earn additional credit for the same learning and therefore you may not enrol in this module if you have successfully completed any modules in the incompatible list.
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| No incompatible modules listed |
Co-requisite Modules
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| No Co-requisite modules listed |
Requirements
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is mandatory before enrolment in this module is allowed. You may not enrol on this module if you have not acquired the learning specified in this section.
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| No requirements listed |
| Indicative Content |
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Victorian popular culture
design, architecture, popular theatre, opera, music, film, literature.
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Form and Meaning in Early Modern Art
Introduction to the principal movements in Modern Art from 1850 to 1960, focusing on developments in form and content
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Seminars
The Seminar programme in semester two is divided into four separate strands through which each first year group rotates. This includes: Theorizing Beauty, Culture and Power; Object handing and the problem of taste; a brief introduction to Chinese Scroll Painting; A series of visits to artists' studios and research locations in Cork
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Module Content & Assessment
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| Assessment Breakdown | % |
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| Coursework | 100.00% |
Assessments
| No End of Module Formal Examination |
| Reassessment Requirement |
Coursework Only
This module is reassessed solely on the basis of re-submitted coursework. There is no repeat written examination.
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The University reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment
Module Workload
| Workload: Full Time |
| Workload Type |
Contact Type |
Workload Description |
Frequency |
Average Weekly Learner Workload |
Hours |
| Lecture |
Contact |
Introduction to Art Histories |
Every Week |
2.00 |
2 |
| Lecturer-Supervised Learning (Contact) |
Contact |
Seminar (1:15) |
Every Week |
1.00 |
1 |
| Independent & Directed Learning (Non-contact) |
Non Contact |
Independent Study and Research |
Every Week |
4.00 |
4 |
| Total Hours |
7.00 |
| Total Weekly Learner Workload |
7.00 |
| Total Weekly Contact Hours |
3.00 |
| This module has no Part Time workload. |
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Module Resources
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| Recommended Book Resources |
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Harrison, Charles and Paul Wood. (1993), Art in Theory 1900-1990 An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Blackwell, [ISBN: 978-063116575].
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Need, Lynda. The haunted gallery, Yale University Press, 2008, [ISBN: 0300112912].
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Stangos, N.. (1994), Concepts in Modern Art, Thames & Hudson, [ISBN: 978-050020268].
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Brownlow, Kevin. (1976), The parade's gone by, New. University of California Press, Berkeley, [ISBN: 0520030680].
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Everson, William K.. (1998), American silent film, New. Da Capo Press, New York, [ISBN: 0306808765].
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Fer, Briony, David Batchelor and Paul Wood. (1993), Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism, Art Between the Wars, Yale University Press, [ISBN: 978-03000551].
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Frascina, Francis, Charles Harrison et al. (1993), Modernity and Modernism in French Painting in the 19th Century, Yale U. P., [ISBN: 978-030005514].
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Harrison, Charles, Francis Frascina and Gill Perry. (1993), Primitivism Cubism and Abstraction, The Early Twentieth Century, Yale U. P., [ISBN: 978-030005516].
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Kobe, Peter, foreword by Martin Scorsese; introduction by Kevin Brownlow. (2007), Silent movies, Little Brown, New York, [ISBN: 9780316117913].
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Robinson, David. Chaplin: His Life and Art, [ISBN: 0141000384].
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