AH20200

Learning Outcomes:

-- recognise and account for the key concepts and major manifestations of modern and contemporary art, especially as they pertain to the main themes of the course.
- identify and critically analyse canonical modern and post-modern artworks.
- be familiar with major critical texts pertaining to the development of modern art as a concept within visual art.
- critically reflect on the key themes of the course - abstract art, use of readymade materials, chance and automatism, other modernisms, and the role of the gallery space.

Indicative Module Content:

The Avant-Garde; Abstraction; Use of Readymade Materials - collage, readymade, objects; Chance and Automatism; Other modernisms - Harlem Renaissance; Mexican Modernism; Irish Modernism; Installation art and White Cube space.

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

The course is taught via lectures and via small group seminars. Students will have the opportunity to look at works of art in the original on a gallery visit and to discuss the main themes of the module in this context. Students are strongly encouraged to visit the library in person, read books, visits galleries and museums, make use of recommended texts, and contribute in class. Support material and recommended readings from lectures will be available on Brightspace and students are encouraged to keep a journal detailing the content of the lectures and related tasks and research. Students are expected to attend lectures and seminars and to participate in the latter by contributing to class discussions and doing relevant preparatory work.
All submitted assignments should be original, non-plagiarised work without recourse to AI tools.

It is incumbent on any undergraduate student who fails this module to contact the lecturer concerned to announce their attention to resit, and to obtain details of resit assignments. Any resit/ repeat registration/ fee issues should be dealt with by the Arts programme office.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Learning Recommendations:

Art History majors should not take any Stage 2 or 3 Art History modules until they have completed their Stage 1 Art History requirements.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Incompatibles:
AH10070 - Dublin: Its Museums

Additional Information:
Students intending to Major in Art History are required to have competed the CORE Stage 1 module, and at least one other Stage 1 Art History module before progression.


 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Students are given individual feedback on their end of term essay and on the short text essay, via Brightspace but also face to face, by appointment.

Please contact the module co-ordinator Róisín Kennedy, roisin.kennedy@ucd.ie for a copy of the reading list.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.