AR121-4-SP-CO:
Art Revolutions
2016/17
Art History and Theory
Colchester Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
15
-
Requisites for this module
(none)
(none)
(none)
(none)
(none)
BA V314 Art History,
BA V350 Art History (Including Foundation Year),
BA V35A Art History (Including Year Abroad),
BA V351 Curating,
BA V352 Curating (Including Year Abroad),
BA V359 Curating (Including Foundation Year),
BA V35B Curating (Including Foundation Year and Year Abroad)
Module Outline
This module offers an in-depth study of three seminal figures that revolutionized the nature of painting during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Looking through the prism of the artistic production and pictorial innovations of Edouard Manet, Paul Cézanne and Kazimir Malevich, we will focus on understanding and interpreting artistic movements such as impressionism, post-impressionism and some avant-garde movements, such as cubism, futurism and abstraction and the correlations between them. We will not only explore the influence that these three painters have had on artistic movements such as the above, but we will also open up a retrospective pictorial dialogue. For instance, we will study works such as Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon as an example of a direct response to Cézanne’s rupture of the pictorial space, or look at how Les Demoisselles is indebted to Manet’s Olympia and its use of a ‘reverse gaze’ that invites the viewer to participate in the scene. Through visual analysis, students will be able to identify how revolutionary processes materialized in works such as Manet’s Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe and Monet’s and Cézanne’s versions of the work bearing the same title. Other questions that will be explored include: would Malevich’s Black Square have been possible without Manet’s innovations in brushworks? What did Malevich mean by description of suprematism as the ‘degree zero’ of painting? What can the body of works created by these three painters tell us about the history of representation? What can it tell us about modernism?
Aims
• to introduce students to key movements in the history of art by focusing on the study of Manet, Cézanne, and Malevich;
• to develop skills of oral and written description and analysis of art works;
• to develop interpretation skills through comparative visual analysis;
• to familiarise students with the use of primary and secondary sources.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module the student should have:
• a sound grasp of the relevance and innovative contributions of these figures to the history of painting;
• a deep understanding of the revolutionary changes in the pictorial language of artistic movements ranging from impressionism to abstraction;
• a critical awareness of the interconnectedness between twentieth and nineteenth century pictorial practices;
• the ability to interpret works and texts based on sound knowledge of the appropriate historical and interpretative contexts;
• the confidence to subject the texts studied to critical analysis; and
• good bibliographic and basic research skills.
By the end of the module, students should also have acquired a set of transferable skills, and in particular be able to:
• engage with the subject through visual analysis and close attention to detail;
• define the task in which they are engaged and exclude what is irrelevant;
• seek and organise the most relevant discussions and sources of information;
• process a large volume of diverse and sometimes conflicting arguments;
• compare and evaluate different arguments and assess the limitations of their own position or procedure;
• write and present verbally a succinct and precise account of positions, arguments, and their presuppositions and implications;
• be sensitive to the positions of others and communicate their own views in ways that are accessible to them;
• think 'laterally' and creatively (i.e., to explore interesting connections and possibilities, and to present these clearly rather than as vague hunches);
• maintain intellectual flexibility and revise their own position based on feedback;
• think critically and constructively.
No information available.
No information available.
No additional information available.
10 x 2 hour seminars
1 x Gallery visit
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Slide Test 1 |
|
10% |
| Coursework |
Slide Test 2 |
|
15% |
| Coursework |
Participation |
|
5% |
| Coursework |
Essay 1 |
|
30% |
| Coursework |
Essay 2 |
|
40% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Ian Dudley
Barbara Brickman, First Year Administrator, Email: bbrick@essex.ac.uk
Yes
Yes
No
No external examiner information available for this module.
Available via Moodle
Of 20 hours, 20 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
Disclaimer: The University makes every effort to ensure that this information on its Module Directory is accurate and up-to-date. Exceptionally it can
be necessary to make changes, for example to programmes, modules, facilities or fees. Examples of such reasons might include a change of law or regulatory requirements,
industrial action, lack of demand, departure of key personnel, change in government policy, or withdrawal/reduction of funding. Changes to modules may for example consist
of variations to the content and method of delivery or assessment of modules and other services, to discontinue modules and other services and to merge or combine modules.
The University will endeavour to keep such changes to a minimum, and will also keep students informed appropriately by updating our programme specifications and module directory.
The full Procedures, Rules and Regulations of the University governing how it operates are set out in the Charter, Statutes and Ordinances and in the University Regulations, Policy and Procedures.