2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ARTF1028 From Art History’s Myths to Critical Art History

20 creditsClass Size: 200

Module manager: Dr Will Rea
Email: w.r.rea@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module sets out a broad range of art-historical topics and questions, with a focus on modernity and the contemporary, together with a direct, critical engagement with some of the prevailing myths of the discipline. You’ll be equipped with an understanding of key moments in the history of art in texts, practices and institutions and with an ability to reflect on how the history of art both illuminates and shadows our work as art historians today.

Objectives

While gaining in-depth knowledge of art movements and practices up to the present, we will explore how the interpretation of art has been coloured by notions of nationhood and claims to universality, by the very notion of ‘modernity’ and by myths of origins and authenticity.

The module sets out a series of thematically linked critical topics, in order to build both subject knowledge in the history of art, and to foster reflection on the underlying structures and ‘myths’ of the discipline. The module builds on other core teaching to enable you to reflect on key critical and historical frameworks in the discipline of art history, and on how we can engage with these as art historians now. In this way, the module places emphasis on close, critical reading not only of artworks, but also of the structures of thought in which art is embedded.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module you will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject: 
1. Explain/identify the concepts Modernity, Modernisation and Modernism
2. Recognise how Art History as a discipline has developed discourses and practices based upon those concepts.
3. Recognise/describe cultural changes that condition and characterise Modernity, Modernisation and Modernism at a national and global level.
4. Discuss how these cultural changes have created differing approaches to art and its histories at different points in time and place.

Skills learning outcomes

On successful completion of the module you will be able to demonstrate the following skills learning outcomes:
5. Critical thinking: the ability to weigh up different arguments and perspectives, using supporting evidence to form opinions, arguments, theories and ideas.
6. Academic writing: the ability to write in a clear, concise, focused and structured manner that is supported by relevant evidence.

Syllabus

Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	20	1.00	20.00
seminars	10	1.00	10.00
Private study hours			170.00
Total Contact hours			30.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will have a seminar discussion once a week for the duration of the course. Formative feedback develops from reading presentations in class and in discussion with tutors. Assessment is based on essay and MCQ which assesses the broad range of knowledge covered in seminar class as well as lectures.

Attendance, participation in seminar discussions, Reading Assessment to be presented in seminar class.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	Coursework	50.00
Assignment	Reading exercise	50.00
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

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