Historical Perspective of the World and of Contemporary Art
Code: 104997 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2501928 Audiovisual Communication | FB | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Marķa Soledad Enjuanes Puyol
- Email:
- sol.enjuanes@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
Interest in visual culture and art are not essential but recommended
Objectives and Contextualisation
The main objective is to stimulate the critical thinking through the analysis of contemporary art and its historical and cultural context and to enrich the visual culture of the students.
The methodological objectives are to:
- familiarize students with the methods of analysis of art and visual culture
- promote the use of appropriate vocabulary and specialised information sources
- identify gender, ideological and cultural biases in the history of art
- encourage creativity
- facilitate the transfer of acquired knowledge to audiovisual media
Learning Outcomes
- CM16 (Competence) To construct artistically relevant (relevance may be measured in the form of social impact) and industrially competitive (art belongs to the masses and is consumed) audiovisual products.
- CM16 (Competence) To construct artistically relevant (relevance may be measured in the form of social impact) and industrially competitive (art belongs to the masses and is consumed) audiovisual products.
- CM17 (Competence) To assess the communicative capacity of a particular audiovisual artwork (cultural icon or landmark or cult artwork).
- CM17 (Competence) To assess the communicative capacity of a particular audiovisual artwork (cultural icon or landmark or cult artwork).
- KM20 (Knowledge) To draw aesthetic connections between artistic images and audiovisual images.
- KM21 (Knowledge) To identify contemporary art movements.
- SM21 (Skill) To apply resources related to artistic design and expression to audiovisual creation.
- SM22 (Skill) To demonstrate the acquisition of the artistic skills specific to contemporary culture through the combination of aesthetic sensibility and forms of audiovisual communication.
- SM22 (Skill) To demonstrate the acquisition of the artistic skills specific to contemporary culture through the combination of aesthetic sensibility and forms of audiovisual communication.
Content
The chronological axis of the subject covers from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century and it is structured from 4 thematic axes:
1. From Modernity to the Avant-Garde
2. Art, mass culture, wars and revolution
3. From individual gesture to serial production in the framework of the Cold War
4. Plastic languages and consumer society
The subject highlights the androcentric bias of the history of art and promotes a critical analysis of the role of women in the artistic framework —as creators, models and activists— to highlight the mechanisms that have caused their invisibility and the weight of gender stereotypes in visual culture.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Lectures | 37 | 1.48 | CM17, KM20, KM21 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutorial sessions | 23 | 0.92 | CM17, KM21, SM21, SM22 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Readings, study, visits to exhibitions, analysis of texts and images, preparation of essays. | 90 | 3.6 | CM16, CM17, KM20, KM21, SM21, SM22 |
Methodology:
- Lectures with visual support
- Critical analysis of images and texts
- Exhibition visits
- Tutorial sessions
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual work | 40 % | 0 | 0 | CM16, CM17, KM20, KM21, SM21, SM22 |
| Tasks and attendace | 30 % | 0 | 0 | CM17, KM20, KM21 |
| Teamwork | 30 % | 0 | 0 | CM16, CM17, KM20, KM21, SM21, SM22 |
CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT
The evaluation of the subject is based on a continuous evaluation process and the final mark is obtained from the weighted sum of the evaluative evidences:
- Tasks and participation in class 30 %
- Team work 30 %
- Individual work 40 %
In order to pass the course, the weighted sum of all the marks must be equal to or higher than 5.
The assessment activities only add up if they have a qualification equal or higher than 4, therefore, a minimum mark of 4 must be obtained in the evaluation evidences in order for them to count in the final mark.
Students will be entitled to the revaluation of the subject if:
a. the final grade is lower than 5
b. an assessment activitie has a mark lower than 4.
c. having been previously assessed in 2/3 of the assessment activities.
In the case of a second enrolment, students can do a single synthesis exam. The grading of the subject will correspond to the grade of the synthesis exam.
In the event that the student performs any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation of an evaluation act, this evaluation act will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that could be instructed. In the event, that several irregularities occur in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade for this subject will be 0.
SINGLE ASSESSMENT
- Exam 50 %
- Work on an artist/piece of art/subject 50 %
In order to pass the course, the weighted sum of all the marks must be equal to or higher than 5.
The assessment activities only add up if they have a qualification equal or higher than 4, therefore, a minimum mark of 4 must be obtained in the evaluation evidences in order for them to count in the final mark.
Students will be entitled to the revaluation of the subject if:
a. the final grade is lowerthan 5
b. an assessment activitie has a mark lower than 4.
In the event that the student performs any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation of an evaluation act, this evaluation act will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that could be instructed. In the event, that several irregularities occur in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade for this subject will be 0.
Bibliography
Mandatory reading
Gompertz, Will, ¿Qué estás mirando? 150 años de arte moderno en un abrir y cerrar de ojos. Madrid: Taurus 2013 + eBook
(English edition, 2012)
Bibliography*
Fontana, Josep. El Siglo de la revolución: una historia del mundo desde 1914. Barcelona: Crítica, 2017.
Foster, Hal; Krauss, Rosalind; Bois, Yve-Alain; and Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. Art since 1900. Londres: Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Pollock, Griselda. Encuentros en el museo feminista virtual. Madrid: Cátedra, 2010.
Ramírez, Juan Antonio. El mundo contemporáneo. Vol. IV. Historia del arte. Madrid: Alianza, 1997.
Sturken, Marita and Cartwright, Lisa. Practices of looking: An introduction to visual culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
*The bibliography will be extended throughout the course with references directly related to the contents of the syllabus.
Online resources
www.macba.cat/
www.museoreinasofia.es/
www.tate.org.uk/
www.centrepompidou.fr/
www.moma.org/
www.nga.gov/
www.metmuseum.org/
Software
Moodle (Campus virtual)
Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (TE) Theory | 4 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |