Module Details

Module Code: DSGN H2705
Module Title: Art and Design: Themes and Contexts.
Title: Art and Design: Themes and Contexts.
Module Level:: 6
Credits:: 10
Module Coordinator: Janette Davies
Module Author:: Brian Garvey
Domains:  
Module Description: This module aims to give students a clear and comprehensive overview of significant discourses, designers and artists working within a Post-World War 2 art and design context. The module will encourage a comparative approach encompassing different creative strategies and discourses related to Modernism and Post-Modernism as they are interpreted by practitioners in the fields of visual and performative art, architecture and graphic design . The course seeks connections with social and political forces within and beyond the confines of art and design history. It establishes the importance of crossovers between theory and practice. Subject aims:

1. To develop the student’s ability to interpret academic theories and be able to clearly articulate their comprehension of these theories through written project/web based work.

2. To stimulate and encourage student’s understanding of the relationships between critical debates in visual and material culture to art and design practices and wider social/ economic shifts.

3. To develop the student’s independence of thought through peer debate and critical questioning .

4. To encourage the making of connections between studio work and historical critical discourses.

5. To further develop research skills (particularly online research) in support of their studio practices.

The assessment of this subject is designed to enable students to demonstrate that they have acquired a broad understanding of key practitioners and their works, issues and theories introduced in this subject.
 
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
# Learning Outcome Description
LO1 Identify and describe a comprehensive knowledge of key debates in Modernist and post-Modernist design and visual art from the 1950s to the early 1980s.
LO2 Demonstrate an understanding of the social, political and economic contexts relating to art and design practices of this period through identifying specific art and design works in workbook/class discussion and exercises.
LO3 Apply appropriate visual information with written material in a word -processing document. Be able to present quotations, with appropriate analysis, references and bibliographies in all submitted projects.
LO4 Be able to identify and use a variety of research skills options including online research.
LO5 Be able to plan, time-manage and produce project work to specific deadlines.
Dependencies
Module Recommendations

This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is recommended before enrolment in this module.
No recommendations listed
Co-requisite Modules
No Co-requisite modules listed
Additional Requisite Information
No Co Requisites listed
 
Indicative Content
Art & Design: Themes & Contexts
The subject contents of this module will present a comprehensive survey of post-World War 2 art and design history (1950s-1980s.) through lectures and in class learning projects. The subject programme aims at placing the syllabus within the political and cultural landscapes that have helped shape 20th Century visual art & design history as well as visual and material culture in both Europe and America. Within a detailed and chronological overview, the course contents include dominant movements/terms as well as important individual influences on visual art & design theory: Modernism and Post-Modernism will function as a means of coordinating discussions within an expanded understanding of the creative context. The student will be directed towards understanding general distinctions between art and design movements while also observing the conflicting interpretations of these movements. Historical art movements may also be examined through more recent art practices that critically re-interpret and challenge traditional art historical concerns. This course will provide an essential platform for consideration of present day issues relating to art, design and the mass media both in Ireland, Europe, USA
Module Content & Assessment
Assessment Breakdown%
Continuous Assessment100.00%

Assessments

Full Time

Continuous Assessment
Assessment Type Multiple Choice Questions % of Total Mark 20
Timing n/a Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4
Non-marked No
Assessment Description
Bi-weekly writing / analyses exercises, reviews , summaries etc.
Assessment Type Essay % of Total Mark 70
Timing n/a Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4,5
Non-marked No
Assessment Description
Essay 1,500-2,000 words typed with illustrations or a combination of a student selected essay project and/or web based presentation.
Assessment Type Short Answer Questions % of Total Mark 10
Timing n/a Learning Outcomes 1,2
Non-marked No
Assessment Description
In Class Pop Quizs.
No Project
No Practical
No End of Module Formal Examination
Reassessment Requirement
Exam Board
It is at the discretion of the Examination Board as to what the qualifying criteria are.
Reassessment Description
Marks for all essays and presentations are collected at the end of each semester. If a student fails to complete an essay, re-assessment can take place if the student obtains the agreement of the tutor to submit completed work at the end of the semester. If a student fails to make a presentation then a written assignment should be set instead.

SETU Carlow Campus reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment

 

Module Workload

Workload: Full Time
Workload Type Workload Category Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Contact Hours Contact Contact Hours Every Week 2.00 2
Independent Learning Non Contact Reading, Researching and developing work assignments. Every Week 3.00 3
Total Weekly Contact Hours 2.00
 
Module Resources
Recommended Book Resources
  • Alberro, Alexander & Buchmann, Sabeth.. (2006), Art after Conceptual Art, Cambridge Mass, MIT Press, [ISBN: 9780262].
  • Coles, Alex. (ed.). (2007), Design and Art, USA, MIT Press, [ISBN: 9780262532891].
  • David Evans. (2009), Appropriation, Mit Press, p.238, [ISBN: 9780262550703].
  • David Hopkins. (2000), After Modern Art 1945-2000, Oxford University Press, p.282, [ISBN: 9780192842343].
  • Ellen Lupton. (1999), Design Writing Research, Phaidon Press, p.211, [ISBN: 0714838519].
  • Perry, Gill & Woods, Paul. (2004), Themes in Contemporary Art., London, The Open University Press, [ISBN: 0300102976].
  • Rick Poynor. (2003), Graphic Design and Post Modernism: No More Rules, Yale University Press, p.192, [ISBN: 9780300100341].
  • David Seth Raizman. (2010), History of Modern Design, Laurence King, p.432, [ISBN: 9781856696944].
  • Penny Sparke. (2010), As Long as It's Pink, Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, p.195, [ISBN: 0919616518].
  • Charles Harrison,Paul Wood. (2002), Art in Theory 1900 - 2000, John Wiley & Sons, p.1288, [ISBN: 0631227083].
  • Eleanor Heartney. (2001), Postmodernism, Cambridge University Press, p.96, [ISBN: 0521004381].
  • Christopher Wilk. (2006), Modernism, Victoria & Albert Museum, p.447, [ISBN: 1851774777].
  • Glenn Adamson,Jane Pavitt. (2011), Postmodernism, Victoria & Albert Museum, p.320, [ISBN: 1851776591].
  • R. Roger Remington. (2013), American Modernism: Graphic Design 1920-1960., Laurence King Publishing, USA., p.192, [ISBN: 9781780670980].
  • Steve Edwards,Paul Wood. (2012), Art & Visual Culture 1850-2010, Tate, UK, p.334, [ISBN: 9781849760973].
Supplementary Book Resources
  • Gablik, Suzi.. (2004), Has Modernism Failed?, London:Thames and Hudson, [ISBN: 978-050027385].
  • Lucy R. Lippard. (1995), The Pink Glass Swan, The New Press, USA., [ISBN: 1565842138].
  • Lucy R. Lippard. (1997), Six Years, Univ of California Press, p.272, [ISBN: 9780520210134].
  • Brian O'Doherty. (1999), Inside the White Cube, Univ of California Press, p.113, [ISBN: 9780520220409].
  • Stephen J. Eskilson. (2007), Graphic Design, Yale University Press, p.464, [ISBN: 9780300120110].
  • Nicolas De Oliveira,Nicola Oxley,Michael Petry. Installation Art in the New Millennium, [ISBN: 0500284512].
This module does not have any article/paper resources
Other Resources
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