visa3007 history and theory of art and design 4 semester 2,...

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Syllabus Examination of contemporary art practice with a focus on modernist and post-modernist theories surrounding issues such as feminism, originality, ambiguity, spirituality and sustainability. The relationship between personal practice in the context of contemporary theory and studio practice.

Unit study package code: VISA3007

Mode of study: Internal

Tuition pattern summary: Note: For any specific variations to this tuition pattern and for precise information refer to the Learning Activities section.

Lecture: 1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly Tutorial: 1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly

This unit does not have a fieldwork component.

Credit Value: 25.0

Pre-requisite units: Nil

Co-requisite units: Nil

Anti-requisite units: Nil

Result type: Grade/Mark

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Unit coordinator: Title: MrName: Simon BlondPhone: 9266-3557Email: [email protected]: Building: 202 - Room: 186

Teaching Staff: Name: Francis RussellEmail: [email protected]

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Unit Outline

VISA3007 History and Theory of Art and Design 4 Semester 2, 2016

Faculty of HumanitiesDepartment of Art

VISA3007 History and Theory of Art and Design 4Bentley Campus 22 Jul 2016 Department of Art, Faculty of Humanities

Page: 1 of 12CRICOS Provider Code 00301J

The only authoritative version of this Unit Outline is to be found online in OASIS

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Introduction Welcome to Arguments and Debates in Art & Design. This unit focusses on issues that are contested in contemporary art and as a result goes deeper into the underlying assumptions that are made together with their implications . Many of these issues were originally the subject of argument within twentieth century modernism but are still being aired in texts and debates about contemporary art . This follows the example of philosophy in which questions that were first posed by the ancient Greeks are still being argued about today rather than the model of science in which arguments that ocurred twenty years ago may already be out of date. This unit is highly recommended for any student wishing to proceed into an honours degree.

Unit Learning Outcomes All graduates of Curtin University achieve a set of nine graduate attributes during their course of study. These tell an employer that, through your studies, you have acquired discipline knowledge and a range of other skills and attributes which employers say would be useful in a professional setting. Each unit in your course addresses the graduate attributes through a clearly identified set of learning outcomes. They form a vital part in the process referred to as assurance of learning. The learning outcomes tell you what you are expected to know, understand or be able to do in order to be successful in this unit. Each assessment for this unit is carefully designed to test your achievement of one or more of the unit learning outcomes. On successfully completing all of the assessments you will have achieved all of these learning outcomes.

Your course has been designed so that on graduating we can say you will have achieved all of Curtin's Graduate Attributes through the assurance of learning process in each unit.

Curtin's Graduate Attributes

Learning Activities Argument and Debate in Contemporary Art Readings by Topic

Repeated Sources

Chipp Herschl B, Theories of Modern Art University of California Press, 1968

Harrison & Wood, ed, Art in Theory 1900-1990, Blackwell 1992

Harrison & Wood with Gaiger, ed, Art in Theory 1900-2000, Blackwell 1992

Stiles Kristine & Selz Peter 1996 Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art University of California Press Berkeley

On successful completion of this unit students can: Graduate Attributes addressed

1 Identify and analyse a context for personal practice through research of contemporary art practice and theory, CO7

2 Review, analyse and critique competing theories and issues

3 Demonstrate advanced visual, spoken and written communication using appropriate technologies

Apply discipline knowledge Thinking skills (use analytical skills to solve problems)

Information skills (confidence to investigate new ideas)

Communication skills Technology skillsLearning how to learn (apply principles learnt to new situations) (confidence to tackle unfamiliar problems)

International perspective (value the perspectives of others)

Cultural understanding (value the perspectives of others)

Professional Skills (work independently and as a team) (plan own work)

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Topic 1 Is Art Expression? Primitivism and Die Brucke Artists:

Texts: Emile Nolde 1902-14 Yahre der Kamphe (autobiography) in Chipp pp.150-151.

Gordon Graham ‘Expressivism’ in The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics 2nd edition 2005

Robert Wilkinson, Susan Langer’s discursive v presentational distinction, in Oswald Hanfling 1992, Philosophical Aesthetics, Blackwell, Oxford pp.202-205.

Topic 2 High Art – Low Art Texts: Clement Greenberg 1939, ‘Avant Garde and Kitsch’ (Harrison & Wood 1992 529-541) Richard Hamilton 1957 Letter (Stiles & Selz 1996) pp.296-300)

Topic 3 Minimalism and Site Specificity

Texts: Ad Reinhardt1962: ‘Art as Art’ (Harrison & Wood 1992: 806-9)

Donald Judd 1965: ‘Specific objects’ (Harrison & Wood 1992: 809-813) Michael Fried 1967: ‘Art and Objecthood’ (Harrison & Wood 1992: 822-834)

Jon Thompson, 1993, New Times, New Thoughts, New Sculpture in Jeremy Ackerman ed. 2011, The Collected Writings of Jon Thompson, Ridinghouse London, pp. 105-110. 111-113.

Topic 4 Art and Life: Definitions

Texts: Oswald Hanfling, 1992: ‘The Institutional Theory’ (Hanfling ed Philosophical Aesthetics, Blackwell, Oxford, pp19-32 and 202-205.

Topic 5. Robotics, the Obsolete body and Artificial Intelligence

Texts: Donna Haraway, 1987, A Manifesto for Cyborgs, Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 2 No. 4 pp.1-9.

Katherine Hayles, 1999, How We Became Post-human, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Topic 6 Climate Change and the Environment (Francis Russell)

Text: Claire Colebrook, 2014, Death of the Post-Human: Essays on Extinction, Open Humanities Press, with Michigan Publishing, pp.86-90.

Topic 7 Ambiguity and Interpretation Texts: Roland Barthes 1977: ‘The Death of the Author’ (Lodge 1988: 166-172)

Susan Sontag: ‘Against Interpretation’ in A Susan Sontag Reader Penguin Books, London, 1983, pp.95-104.

Jacques Derrida, 1978, Writing and Difference, in Philip Rice & Patricia Waugh, Modern Literary Theory, 1992, Edward Arnold London, pp.147-153.

Topic 8 Critique of Relational Aesthetics

Texts: Nicolas Bourriaud, 2002, Relational Aesthetics, transl. S. Pleasance, and F. Wood, Les presses du reel, pp.11-20.

Clare Bishop, 2004, Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics, October Magazine, No.110, pp51-58, 61-72,





77-79.

Jacques Ranciere, 2009, The Emancipated Spectator, transl.G.Elliott, Verso London, pp. 4-19.

Topic 9 Originality and Appropriation Art

Texts: Frederick Jameson 1988: ‘Death of the Subject’ (Brooker ed 1992: 167-8)

Rosalind Krauss 1985, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and other

Modernist Myths, MIT Press, pp157-162. Irving Sandler 1996: ‘Postmodernist Art Theory’ (Sandler 1996: 347-353, 408-411)

Topic 10 The Postmodern Condition

Texts: Jean-Francoise Lyotard 1984: ‘The Postmodern Condition’ (Harrison & Wood 1992: 998-1000)

Jurgen Habermas 1985: Modernity – an Incomplete Project (Brooker 1992: 131-136) Raman Selden and Peter Widdowson 1993: Jaques Derrida: deconstruction, from Contemporary literary Theory, pp147-153)

Topic 11 Curatorship (Christina Chau)

Texts: Michael Brenson, 1998, The Curator's Moment, Art Journal, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Winter, 1998), pp. 16-27.

Topic 12 Warnings Against Technology Texts: Mike Gane, Baudrillard’s Bestiary 1991: 94-103 Paul Virilio 2002 Ground Zero (Virilio 2002: 1-20)

Learning Resources Recommended texts

You do not have to purchase the following textbooks but you may like to refer to them.

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Other resources

The Course Reader is essential to this unit and all students are expected to read the appropriate selection of texts each week. An innovation for HAD units this semester is that there will be no printed hardcopy of the reader for you to purchase. Instead there will be a digital version in the library, which you can download and print. The advantage of this is that there will be no deteriotation of the text and illustrations as they are reepeatedly photocopied.





Assessment Assessment schedule

Detailed information on assessment tasks

1. The tests will be without access to any sources of information. They will not include any multiple choice questions and will require answers of one word or several sentences. They will test your knowledge and understanding of the lectures and readings. Any student who is not able to sit the test in the lecture and has a valid reason for not doing so eg illness should contact the unit coordinator by e-mail before the test takes place.

2. Tutorial assessment is in two parts: 1. Attendance and full participation in tutorial class is essential. Although questions are encouraged during lectures, there is limited time available. As a result the tutorial is where questions and further discussion is most possible. Each week there will be set readings from the text book which will give further detail to what is presented in the lectures. You will be expected to show that you have done the readings and revised the lecture content each week, so that you can take full part in any discussion. You may also be set tasks by your tutor. Below is a guide for how this assessment is approached. Participation will receive 20% of the final mark for this unit.

Task Value % Date DueUnit Learning Outcome(s)

Assessed

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Test 20 percent Week: teaching week 7 and12 Day: Thursday Time: in the lecture

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Tutorial Assessment 45 percent Week: from week 3 Day: Thursday Time: in your tutorial class

1,2

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Essay 35 percent Week: Teaching Weeks 5 and 12 Day: Thursday Time: until 12 midnight digital copy

2,3,4

Mark/grade Criteria

Fail: 0-49% Student failed to contribute meaningfully to tutorial activities, was unable to complete set tasks and lacked understanding and knowledge of unit content. Student did not demonstrate adequate preparation.

Pass: 50-59%

Student demonstrates infrequent involvement in tutorial activities, but shows a basic understanding and knowledge of unit content and preparation.





2. Each student will be asked to give an individual oral presentation lasting 10-15 minutes on a subject agreed with your tutor. The presentation must be on a different subject to your essay but like your essay it should ask a question or make an assertion that you have devised as a result of your researches. In answering your question or supporting your assertion, your argument must be supported by images and text slides using powerpoint. You must make reference to at least three academic texts in your presentation and cite their sources. Failure to reference correctly will leave you open to the charge of plagiarism. A full copy of the oral presentation text is to be handed to the tutor printed on A4 paper, before the presentation complete with all references. A series of notes or promptings will not be accepted. Joint or group oral presentations will not be allowed.

Students who do not present on the agreed date will be penalised 10% of their marks and will be required to be present every tutorial class after that date until there is a time slot for them. They will attract another 10% for every tutorial class from which they are absent until they make their presentation. If you have a valid reason for not presenting such as illness then you will not be penalised provided you e-mail your tutor at least 24 hours before your presentation and are able to hand in a medical or counselling certificate. The oral presentation accounts for 25% of your final mark.

3. You need to decide from the lecture topics which subject is most interesting for you. After initial research you need to think of a question or thesis assertion that will form the basis of your essay. (If you have difficulty ask you tutor for help). This is a 2000 word essay on a subject that is different from that of the oral presentation. 2000 words means not less than 1800 and not more than 2,500 words. Penalty will be 10% for each 100 words under this limit and 5% for each 100 words over this limit. This essay is to be delivered in two parts:

1. a draft 600-800 word essay to be submitted in your tutorial in teaching week 5 (week 6) which will receive detailed feedback, and 10% of the total for this unit. This draft should consist of: an introduction in which the thesis question or assertion is clearly stated; two paragraphs from the main body of the essay with sources cited; the remainder of the argument as dot points only; and a reference list in Chicago 16 style. It must include at least one image that is numbered and fully captioned.

2. the full 2000 word essay developed from the draft version in response to the feedback received, to be submitted in the tutorial class of teachingweek 12 (week 14). This will be marked without feedback. It will receive 25% of the final mark for this unit. Creative writing will not be accepted nor will any essay on a subject that is not visual or not within the scope of this unit. All essays need to make reference to at least 6 academic texts not including dictionaries or encyclopedias. Two texts must be journal articles and at least three must be books, not counting Honour & Flemming or Sturken & Cartwright. A list of cited

Credit: 60-69%

Student demonstrates sporadic involvement in tutorial activities, but shows adequate understanding and knowledge of unit content and preparation.

Distinction: 70-79%

Student demonstrates consistent involvement in tutorial activities, showing good understanding and knowledge of unit content and preparation.

High Distinction: 80-100%

Student demonstrates ongoing active involvement in tutorial activities in which contributions are exceptional. Student shows excellent understanding and knowledge of unit content and preparation.





sources is needed at the end but not a bibliography. Each essay must have a minimum of 5 images that are numbered, fully captioned and referred to in the text of your essay. Essays without images will not be marked. They will need to be re-submitted with images and will attract a re-submission penalty of 10%.

Pass requirements

A mark of 50% or over. However there is the additional requirement that the two major assignments are both completed. A mark over 50% without either the final 2000 word essay or the oral presentation will not pass the unit.

Fair assessment through moderation

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Late assessment policy

This ensures that the requirements for submission of assignments and other work to be assessed are fair, transparent, equitable, and that penalties are consistently applied.

1. All assessments students are required to submit will have a due date and time specified on this Unit Outline. 2. Students will be penalised by a deduction of ten percent per calendar day for a late assessment submission

(eg a mark equivalent to 10% of the total allocated for the assessment will be deducted from the marked value for every day that the assessment is late). This means that an assessment worth 20 marks will have two marks deducted per calendar day late. Hence if it was handed in three calendar days late and given a mark of 16/20, the student would receive 10/20. An assessment more than seven calendar days overdue will not be marked and will receive a mark of 0.

Assessment extension

A student unable to complete an assessment task by/on the original published date/time (eg examinations, tests) or due date/time (eg assignments) must apply for an assessment extension using the Assessment Extension form (available from the Forms page at students.curtin.edu.au/administration/) as prescribed by the Academic Registrar. It is the responsibility of the student to demonstrate and provide evidence for exceptional circumstances beyond the student's control that prevent them from completing/submitting the assessment task.

The student will be expected to lodge the form and supporting documentation with the unit coordinator before the assessment date/time or due date/time. An application may be accepted up to five working days after the date or due date of the assessment task where the student is able to provide an acceptable explanation as to why he or she was not able to submit the application prior to the assessment date. An application for an assessment extension will not be accepted after the date of the Board of Examiners' meeting.

Deferred assessments

Supplementary assessments

Supplementary assessments are not available in this unit.

Reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities/health circumstances likely to impact on studies

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Referencing style

The referencing style for this unit is Chicago.

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Plagiarism occurs when work or property of another person is presented as one's own, without appropriate acknowledgement or referencing. Submitting work which has been produced by someone else (e.g. allowing or contracting another person to do the work for which you claim authorship) is also plagiarism. Submitted work is subjected to a plagiarism detection process, which may include the use of text matching systems or interviews with students to determine authorship.

Cheating includes (but is not limited to) asking or paying someone to complete an assessment task for you or any use of unauthorised materials or assistance during an examination or test.

From Semester 1, 2016, all incoming coursework students are required to complete Curtin’s Academic Integrity Program (AIP). If a student does not pass the program by the end of their first study period of enrolment at Curtin, their marks will be withheld until they pass. More information about the AIP can be found at: https://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/students/AIP.cfm

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All students are expected to be fluent users of Powerpoint at a basic level for their oral presentation

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Information on all these things is available through the University's "Student Rights and Responsibilities" website at: students.curtin.edu.au/rights.

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Recent unit changes Students are encouraged to provide unit feedback through eVALUate, Curtin's online student feedback system. For more information about eVALUate, please refer to evaluate.curtin.edu.au/info/.

Recent changes to this unit include:

1. The mark breakdown for the essay has recently changed to 10% for the draft and 25% of the total mark for the unit. This allows a student to make serious mistakes in their draft essay without incurring a serious penalty. This only happens if the student ignores the feed back that they have been given in their draft essay.

2. Lectures on Climate Change and the Environment, and Curatorship have been added to this unit

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Program calendar

VISA3007 ARGUMENTS & DEBATES IN CONTEMPORARY ART Semester 2 2015 Tuesdays 8.30 204:119

Week Begin Date Lecture/

Seminar

Lecturer Tutorial/Other Assessment Due

Orientation 28 July

1. 4 August 1 Is Art Expression?

2. 11 August 2 High Art - Low Art

3. 18 August 3 Minimalism

4. 25 August 4 Art/Life

Definitions

5. 31 August Tuition Free Week

6. 8 September 5 Robotics DRAFT ESSAY DUE

7. 15 September

6 Climate Change and the Environment

Dr. Francis Russell

8. 22 September

7 Ambiguity and Interpretation TEST 1

9. 29 September

Tuition Free Week

10. 6 October 8. Appropriation

and Originality

11. 13 October 9 Critique of Relational Aesthetics

12. 20 October 10 Postmodern Condition

13. 27 October 11 Curatorship Dr Christina Chau

14. 3 November 12 Warnings Against Technology

TEST 2

FINAL ESSAY DUE

15. 9 November Study Week

16. 16 November

Examinations

17 23 November

Examinations



