What is modernism? How did it begin, social and cultural events and modernism's birth and development. Modernism and its different interpretations in art, culture, politics and architechture. The birth of post-modernism and its difference interpretations.
Prerequisite(s)
Corequisite(s)
Special Requisite(s)
Instructor(s)
Assoc. Prof. Okan ORMANLI
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Office Hour(s)
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Reading on modernisn and postmodernism, analyzing art samples and debate.
Principle Sources
Terry Eagleton, “Postmodernizmin Yanılsamaları”,2005, Ayrıntı
-Perry Anderson, “Postmodernitenin Kökenleri”, 2002, İletişim
-Enis Batur (ed), “Modernizmin Serüveni”, 2007, Alkım
-Ahu Antmen, “20. Yüzyıl Batı Sanatında Akımlar”, 2008, Sel
-Ali Akay, “Postmodernizm”, 2005, LM Yayıncılık
-Michel Ragon, “Modern Sanat”, 2009, Hayalbaz
-Julian Stallabrass, “Sanat A.Ş.: Çağdaş Sanat ve Bienaller”, 2009, İletişim
Other Sources
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
The roots of Modernism
Oral presentation
2. Week
Analyzing the term “modernism” with departing from the text “Has Modernism Failed?” by Suzi Gablik
Oral presentation
3. Week
Age of Enlightenment
Oral presentation
4. Week
The thesis New Society by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Declaration of Independence and French Revolution
Oral presentation
5. Week
The emerging of Archeology and History of Art, Johann Joachim Winckelmann as a father of both disciplines
Oral presentation
6. Week
Salon after French Revolution; Gustave Courbet, Eduard Manet, Eugene Delacroix
Oral presentation
7. Week
The emerging of thesis “Art for art’s sake”; its causes and relations between modernism
Oral presentation
8. Week
Midterm Assesment.
Midterm Assesment.
9. Week
19th Century, formalist history of art departing from Clement Greenberg’s article “Modernist Painting”
Oral presentation
10. Week
Impressionism
Oral presentation
11. Week
Emerging of art movements, formalism and abstraction
Oral presentation
12. Week
Emerging of art movements, formalism and abstraction
Oral presentation
13. Week
Individual assesments and analyses on art movements and artists
Oral presentation
14. Week
Individual assesments and analyses on art movements and artists
Oral presentation
15. Week
Individual assesments and analyses on art movements and artists
Oral presentation
16. Week
Final assessment
Final assessment
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
10
Attendance
14
40
Final Exam
1
50
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Create theoritical works
PO-2
Create artistic works
PO-3
Make distinction between different disciplines
PO-4
Formulate the scientific methods.
PO-5
Connect the texts from different areas.
PO-6
Interprete the technological developments and artistic and cultural forms
PO-7
Make distinction of contemporary art praxis
PO-8
Apply the creative ideas on multimedia
PO-9
Create works in creative, flexible and free way
PO-10
Put a critical evaluation on world cinema
PO-11
Put a critical evaluation on Turkish Cinema
PO-12
Conduct further works on design area in an independent way
PO-13
Conduct further works on animation in an independent way
PO-14
Conduct further works on semiology in an independent way
PO-15
Conduct further works on world cinema in an independent way
PO-16
Conduct further works on Turkish cinema in an independent way
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Gain knowledge about the terms modern, modernity, modernism and postmodernism
LO-2
Learn national and international acclaimed artists and theorists of the mentioned periods, mature to discuss about art through analyzing artitsts’ productions
LO-3
Develop an authentic intellectual methodology.
LO-4
Provide a conceptual background for his/her independent artistic projects
LO-5
Prepare themselves to future as artist candidates who his/her intellectual background is established.
LO-6
Continue their art ambition with intellectual life.
