Bachelor
2023/2024
Art of the Second Half of the 20th - 21st Centuries
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 all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Орлова Александра Михайловна
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
4
Contact hours:
50
Course 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
Дисциплина предполагает использование генеративной модели искусственного интеллекта (нейронные сети) для текстового и визуального анализа.
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
- Back to Figurativity
- Text Becomes the Image
- Institutions are no Longer in Charge
- The Expanded Field
- Video Art: The Medium is the Message
- The Body and Performance in Contemporary Art.
- Art and Science
Assessment Elements
- Final EssayAnalysis of the chosen contemporary art work by means of the theoretical concepts covered by the course
- ExamOral presentation on randomly chosen exam paper and visual test on the contemporary art objects
- Formal analyses presentationFormal analyses of the chosen art work
- Weekly commentsActive and competent participation in seminar discussions, including reflections on the reading list and making iconography presentation
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 3rd module0.5 * Exam + 0.125 * Final Essay + 0.125 * Formal analyses presentation + 0.25 * Weekly comments
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
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