The aim of this course is to develop the abilities of the students to understand and think about the concepts, historical developlent, dynamics, and characteristics of modern art.
Prerequisite(s)
Corequisite(s)
Special Requisite(s)
Instructor(s)
Professor Mehmet Üstünipek
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Office Hour(s)
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Lectures, group works and project work.
Principle Sources
Nazan İpşiroğlu – Mazhar İpşiroğlu, Sanatta Devrim, Hayalbaz Kitap, 2009.
Norbert Lynton, Modern Sanatın Öyküsü , Remzi Kitabevi, Istanbul, 1982.
Enis Batur, Modernizmin Serüveni, Alkım, 2007.
Ahu Antmen, 20. Yüzyıl Batı Sanatında Akımlar, Sel, 2008.
Other Sources
Hal Foster- Rosalind Krauss - Yves-Alain Bois - Benjamin Buchloh, Art
Since 1900, Thames and Hudson, 2004.
Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifestoları, Norgunk 2004.
Susan Sontag, Sanatçı: Örnek Bir Çilekeş, Metis, 1998.
Fütürist Manifestolar Kitabı, Altıkırkbeş, 2008
Ali Altun, Sanat Manifestoları, Avangard Sanat ve Direniş, İletişim, 2010.
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction class: who is the modern artist and what is modern art?
Lecture
2. Week
Looking at the important establishing figures of modenr art.
Lecture
3. Week
The integration of modern art practices and theories
Lecture
4. Week
Modern Art Manifestos
Lecture
5. Week
Critical figures: Cezanne and the French Revolution
Lecture
6. Week
Gauguin and norms
Lecture
7. Week
Picasso and Africanism
Lecture
8. Week
Picasso and modern cities
Lecture
9. Week
Midterm Exam
Exam
10. Week
Malevitch and the black square
Lecture
11. Week
Relationship with literature: William Blake and after
Lecture
12. Week
Ezra Pound and Vortisism.
Lecture
13. Week
Kandinsky and experiment
Lecture
14. Week
Surrealism and Dada
Lecture
15. Week
Modernist Art Canonisation
Lecture
16. Week
Modern art and after
Lecture
17. Week
Final Exam
Exam
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
20
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
20
Attendance
1
20
Final Exam
1
40
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Students will be able to define all sorts of concepts predominantly related with communication, arts and culture alongside other differint disciplines.
PO-2
Students will be able to interprete technological developments and other related artistic and cultural perceptions.
PO-3
Students will be able to understand contemporary/actual practises.
PO-4
Students will be able to analyse the organic relationships between art, communication
and society.
PO-5
Students will be able to experience the process neccesarry, producing creative designs.
PO-6
Students will be able to study independently of their own accord in a creative
environment
PO-7
Students will be able to use technical equipments properly, and be also accomplish their projects within the given period.
PO-8
Students will be able to transform their creative ideas into multidisciplinary applications.
PO-9
Students will be able to produce original works in different areas ranging from graphic arts, photography, cinema, performing arts to plastic arts.
PO-10
Students will be able to have experiences on film directory, script writing, photography directory and editing.
PO-11
Students will be able to gain proficiency on computer based design, character design for both two and three dimensional animation movie. They also will be able to have experience on stage design.
PO-12
Students will be able to have experiences on various disciplines of performing arts, such as acting, mimic, modern dance, singing, dramatic improvisation.
PO-13
Students will be able to create original art works in painting, sculpture and ceramic disciplines.
PO-14
Students will be able to gain an ability in producing projects together with experienced academics invited.
PO-15
Students will be able to participate in competetive projects both at home and abroad such as exhibitions, workshops and seminars.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Students will have enough knowledge of the characteristics of contemporary art and they will be able to recognise critical and historical terms
LO-2
Students will be able to recognise artists who are associated with contemporary art.
LO-3
Students will be able to identify the general characteristics of contemporary art
LO-4
Students will be able to comprehend contemporary art in comparison with historical terms
LO-5
Students will be able to see the intersections between the themes and forms of contemporary art
LO-6
Students will be able to interpret contemporary art
LO-7
Students will be able to recognise and define the methods in contemporary art
