- UCAS course code
- QV33
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Course unit details:
Art Spaces
Unit code | AHCP10051 |
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Credit rating | 20 |
Unit level | Level 1 |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 1 |
Available as a free choice unit? | Yes |
Overview
Aims
Syllabus
Lectures and seminars are divided into blocks where the following themes may be considered:
The City
Public Art
The Studio
The Exhibition
Art Education
Art Market
Art Societies and Art Networks
Knowledge and understanding
· Demonstrate a general knowledge of the institutions that have mediated artworks from the early modern period to the present day.
· Demonstrate a critical understanding of how institutions participate in the production of the meaning and value of artworks.
· Demonstrate an understanding of art spaces though engagement with relevant case studies.
Intellectual skills
· Critically consider the relation between artworks and their places of production, distribution and reception.
· Relate artistic developments of the period to broader patterns of historical and cultural change.
· Summarise what is distinctive about historical and critical materials.
· Think independently and imaginatively by reflecting on the nature of art history as a discipline.
Practical skills
- Present research engagingly and coherently
- Work collaboratively with peers and participate fully in class discussions
- Seek and accept feedback from other students and the course tutor, and use this feedback to reflect on and improve one’s performance
- Recall and rework information and arguments in coursework
Transferable skills and personal qualities
- Work alone or collaboratively
- Meet deadlines and take responsibility for one’s own work
- Express ideas clearly in written and spoken form
- Use IT resources for research and communication
Assessment methods
Critical Report Plan | 0% |
Critical Report | 40% |
Essay | 60% |
Feedback methods
- Written feedback on critical report plan, critical report, and essay
- Additional one-to-one feedback (during consultation hour or by making an appointment)
Recommended reading
- Altshuler, Bruce (ed.), Salon to Biennial, London, 2008
- Bennett, Tony, The Birth of the Museum, London, 1995
- Berger, John, Ways of Seeing, Harmondsworth, 1972.
- Duncan, Carol, Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums, London and New York, 1995
- Goldstein, Carl, Teaching Art: Academies and Schools form Vasari to Albers, Cambridge, 1996
- Mitchell, W. J. T. (ed.), Art and the Public Sphere, Chicago, 1990
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Academies of Art, Oxford, 1940
- Preziosi, Donald, and Claire Farago (eds), Grasping the World: the idea of the museum, Aldershot, 2004
- Siegel, Jonah, Desire and Excess, Princeton, 2000
Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Lectures | 22 |
Seminars | 11 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 167 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Charles Miller | Unit coordinator |