Module manager: Dr Rebecca Starr
Email: R.Starr@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2023/24
This module is not approved as a discovery module
On completion of this module students should be able to recognise and be cognisant of a range of contested ideas about the artist, art, and the history of art. Students will have been introduced to various ways in which the history and theory of art connect with the actual practice of art.
Students should also have developed skills of close-reading texts (visual and verbal) and of theorising visual art and culture with a view to enhancing their own self-directed learning.
- Participation in group discussions
- Cordination and dissemination of a range of historical,
- Contextual visual information
- Using bibliographies and databases.
This module introduces students to the ways in which visual culture conveys and constructs social values, and how visual images are wrapped-up with verbal representations. Students encounter and explore a number of ways in which 'seeing' is thought.
The module introduces students to important issues and skills, which include:
- Key themes and concepts: figure of the artist (authorship, individuality, genius), role of the spectator, ideology
- Analysis of visual, textual and narrative sources
- Written articulation and conceptual focus.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | Delivery type 1 | Number 1 | Length hours 1 |
| Seminar | Delivery type 10 | Number 1.5 | Length hours 15 |
| Private study hours | Delivery type 184 | ||
| Total Contact hours | Delivery type 16 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | Delivery type 200 | ||
184.0 directed reading, exercises and preparation of portfolio of writings.
- Regular written exercises and projects which form the basis of seminar workshops
- Oral explications of set readings and contributions to class discussion
- Registers taken
- Attendance at tutorials and lectures.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment type Portfolio | Notes Portfolio of short written and analytical exercises | % of formal assessment 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | Assessment type 100 | |
Portfolio of short written and analytical exercises: these exercises are produced over the course of the module and form the basis of discussion for weekly seminar workshops. See EVC Handbook for individual deadlines. It is compulsory to submit all formative and summative assignments in order to pass the module overall. More details can be found in the EVC 1 Handbook.
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 28/04/2023
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