Art of the Second Half of the 20th - 21st Centuries – HSE University Course Catalogue – Higher School of Economics National Research University

Bachelor 2021/2022

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'

Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'

Type: Compulsory course (History of Art)

Area of studies: History of Art

Delivered by: School of History

Where: Faculty of Humanities

When: 4 year, 3 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Angelina Buckley Lucento

Language: English

ECTS credits: 4

Contact hours: 46

Full Syllabus

Abstract

The present program establishes minimum requirements to students’ knowledge and skills and determines contents and the teaching mode of the course, and of the assessment of students’ knowledge. The present syllabus is designed for lecturers teaching this course, their teaching assistants and students of the degree program 50.03.03 ‘History of Art’, bachelors’ program. This syllabus meets the standards required by: Standards of National Research University Higher School of Economics; Bachelors’ program ‘History’ of Federal Bachelors’ Degree Program 50.03.03; University curriculum of the bachelors’ program in history (50.03.03) for 2019

Learning Objectives

to introduce students to the main problems of the course, to its notions, concepts and terminology, and to the existing literature
to enable students to master methods of art historical analysis and to be able to apply this analysis at theoretical, ideological, institutional and research levels
to inculcate into students an understanding of the complex evolution of global contemporary art throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
to introduce students to the English language terminology relevant to the course

Expected Learning Outcomes

to be able to identify, analyse and categorise the approaches of Anglophone historians of contemporary art and compare them to the approaches of certain Russophone scholars
to gain a general knowledge of the English language historiography of contemporary art history
to gain experience discussing, analysing, and debating the problems of the Anglophone historiography of contemporary art history, while using the appropriate English language terminology
to know the main theoretical and ideological approaches of Anglophone art historians
to write proposals for their diploma topics, as required of them, in English

Course Contents

Contemporary Institutions.
Contemporary Objects.
From Mass Culture to Global Happenings.
The Ordinary and the Fabulous: Andy Warhol and Dmitry Prigov
Situations and Disagreements: The Art of Protest.
The Body and Performance in Contemporary Art.
Archives and contemporary art today.

Assessment Elements

formal analysis presentation
Students must also demonstrate their ability to analyze a work of contemporary art through the completion of a test in the form of an orally presented formal analysis of an artwork from the State Tret’iakov Gallery. Presentations will be in English. On the day of the formal analysis presentations students must include a group selfie with the work of art they have chosen to discuss in their slide presentation. Formal analysis presentations will be assessed based on the following criteria: *Description of visual content of the object in question *Description of the art historical and broader historical context of the object in question Every student in a given group will receive THE SAME grade on their presentation. Angelina Oratsievna will also provide feedback on whether or not the presentations met the above criteria. Each group may choose any work from the Tret'iakov Gallery produced after 1945.
final essay
Paper should be typed, in 12 point, Times New Roman font. The research essay should contain proper citations, which should be formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style. The research essay will be based on the required readings for this course.
Exam
weekly commentary

Interim Assessment

2021/2022 3rd module
0.125 * weekly commentary + 0.25 * final essay + 0.5 * Exam + 0.125 * formal analysis presentation

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Kalyva, E. (2016). Image and Text in Conceptual Art : Critical Operations in Context. [Cham, Switzerland]: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1331445
Stimson, B., & Alberro, A. (1999). Conceptual Art : A Critical Anthology (Vol. MIT Press pbk. ed). Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=138689
Поминки по Просвещению : политика и культура на закате современности, Грей, Дж., 2003

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Cole, L. (2018). Surveying the Avant-Garde : Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1821912

Course Syllabus

Art of the Second Half of the 20th - 21st Centuries