2017/18 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

ARTF5039M From Chagall to Kitaj and Beyond

30 creditsClass Size: 15

Module manager: Eva Frojmovic
Email: e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

Module replaces

ARTF5038 Modernity and the Jews

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

“From Chagall to Kitaj and beyond” asks how Jewish artists have positioned themselves vis-à-vis structures of modernity and movements of (post-/)modernism. It also asks about patterns of representation, heritage and memory through the development of Jewish museums and other sites of memory. The construction of Jewish identities and positionalities in the 19th and 20th century will be considered through the intersecting prisms of class, “race” and gender.

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to analyse the cultural representations of the Jewish presence in modernity and postmodernity, especially in the visual arts and visual culture, using a range of contemporary theory. They should be able to research case studies in relation to issues such as modernisation, acculturation, nationalisms, anti- and allo-semitism and be able to engage these historical structures at the level of discourse and representation, diaspora, gender.

Learning outcomes
Successful students on this module will end up with a thorough knowledge of the representational strategies adopted by Jewish subjects in relation to the representations of Jews and Jewishness in general culture during modernity and postmodernity, and an understanding of the operations of strategies of othering and differencing.

Syllabus

Making Sense of Modernity: The move to the city and the invention of the shtetl. Enlightenment 'values': Reason; the nation/the state;
- The privatisation of 'religion'. Acculturation and the project of assimilation.
- Religious modernity.
- Jewish politics.
- Gender and the making of a new middle class
- Narratives of Modernism and Antisemitism. The Jew in the Text. The Jew as Other. Ambivalence, Modernity and the Jews.
- Too Jewish? Questioning Traditional Identities; Theories of Antisemitism/Allosemitism.
Memory.
Postmodernity and "the Jew". The Jew as metaphor; Marrano as Metaphor; the Spectral Jew
Memory/Memorialization/Heritage. The Museum as commemoration or heritage

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Fieldwork	1	3.00	3.00
Seminar	10	3.00	30.00
Private study hours			267.00
Total Contact hours			33.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

There will be an intensive programme of weekly set reading.
60-100 hours will be devoted to the research and composition of assessed essay work.
Students will undertake independent research projects using local resources, such as the holdings of the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, the Cecil Roth Collection in the Brotherton Library, and the Leeds City Art Gallery as well as other museums and libraries as appropriate

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Regular in-class presentations plus end of semester assignment.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	6,000 words	85.00
Essay	1,000 words	15.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 27/04/2017

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