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Art of the Avant-Gardes - HOA00050I

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  • Department: History of Art
  • Module co-ordinator: Prof. Michael White
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: I
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Spring Term 2022-23

Module aims

This module aims to introduce students to the key themes and debates that have developed around the idea of the 'avant-garde' in the 20th century. Specific artists and movements as well as art works and texts may provide case studies for this module. Topics covered might include abstraction, modernism, gender, materiality, the city and subjectivity. How artists and writers sought to establish new visual models and vocabularies in the 20th century are they main themes underlying the module.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students should have acquired:

  • A detailed knowledge of a number of key avant-garde strategies, artists and artworks.
  • The ability to read carefully, and critically, a number of key texts by artists, art historians and theorists relating to the 'avant-garde'.
  • The ability to express, and articulate the key arguments and debates studied over the course of the module.

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Art of the Avant-Gardes Assessed Essay		 N/A 100

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Art of the Avant-Gardes Assessed Essay		 N/A 100

Module feedback

You will receive feedback on assessed work within the timeframes set out by the University - please check the Guide to Assessment, Standards, Marking and Feedback for more information.

The purpose of feedback is to help you to improve your future work. If you do not understand your feedback or want to talk about your ideas further, you are warmly encouraged to meet your Supervisor during their Office Hours.

Indicative reading

  • Art of the Avant-Gardes, Edwards et al (Yale UP, 2005)
  • A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945, ed. Amelia Jones (Blackwell, 2005)
  • Modernism and Modernity: French Painting in the 19th Century Frascina, et al. (Yale UP, 1993)
  • Realism, rationalism, surrealism: art between the wars, Batchelor, Fer, et al, (Yale UP, 1993)
  • Art since 1900: Modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism, Bois, Buchloh, Foster, Krauss, (Thames and Hudson, 2005)


The information on this page is indicative of the module that is currently on offer. The University is constantly exploring ways to enhance and improve its degree programmes and therefore reserves the right to make variations to the content and method of delivery of modules, and to discontinue modules, if such action is reasonably considered to be necessary by the University. Where appropriate, the University will notify and consult with affected students in advance about any changes that are required in line with the University's policy on the Approval of Modifications to Existing Taught Programmes of Study.