Course detail
Issues in Contemporary Art for Exchange Students
FaVU-1ICA2Acad. year: 2019/2020
A seminar is focused on discussing and analysing selected texts of contemporary art criticism and contemporary art theory. A selection of the texts will follow issues discussed in a present discourse on connteporary art.
Language of instruction
English
Number of ECTS credits
5
Guarantor
Offered to foreign students
The home faculty only
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Students are well oriented in the contemporary art issues and they are able to critically discuss them.
Prerequisites
A knowledge of the history of 20th century art. Awareness of contemporary art practice.
Co-requisites
Not applicable.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Seminars are based on individual preps (reading texts, visiting exhibitions, studying some body of work) that are assigned by the teacher who later steers discussion during seminars.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
A credit based on attendance and handing out a written essay.
Course curriculum
Each seminar is based on a text published in one of the recent issues of magazines focused on contemporary art (Frieze, Artforum, Mousse, e-flux...). Several seminars during a term might be dedicated to older texts (yet still from the last decade), that are being continuously important for the present contemporary art practice.
Work placements
Not applicable.
Aims
The main task of the seminar is a widening of the knowledge of presently discussed issues of contemporary art and an ability to articulate informed opinions on the issues of contemporary art.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Compulsory attendance.
Recommended optional programme components
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
Frieze magazine
e-flux journal
Artforum
e-flux journal
Artforum
Recommended reading
Bois - Buchloh - Foster - Krauss, Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, Thames&Hudson, 2005.