1. Demonstrate primary and secondary research skills.¿

2. Analyse key themes in contemporary fine art to inform and contextualise your studio practice.

3. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of contemporary fine art themes and concepts.

4. Demonstrate basic awareness of professional roles and career trajectories in the visual art sector.

For this module, you will submit for assessment:

1. Essay (Learning outcomes 1-4)3)
This will consist of a Harvard-referenced piece of academic writing of no less than 1500 words.

2. Careers Portfolio (Learning outcome 4)
This will consist of evidence of engagement with Career Pulse activities.

This module introduces you to the skills needed to research, evaluate, and present information - skills on which the professional practice of art and design now depend. You will learn the academic conventions employed to construct an argument and use University-based and external sources to gather primary and secondary evidence in support of an argument. You will participate in exercises designed to help you understand the methods and conventions by which you can research, evaluate, and communicate your interest in both the practice and history or theory of art. You will also acquire the skills you need for the gathering and presenting of information in the academic context of an academic essay, such as citation to Harvard standards.

You will write an academic essay of no less than 1500 words, which will explore a theme relevant to your own studio practice. This essay and the preparatory research will help you identify the ways in which the wider context of contemporary fine art informs your developing.

This module will also invite you to begin to explore the employment roles and career trajectories available in the visual art sector. You will initiate a personal Careers Portfolio which will help you begin to self-evaluate your current employability skills and career interests.

This module introduces you to the skills needed to research, evaluate, and present information - skills on which the professional practice of art and design now depend. You will learn the academic conventions employed to construct an argument and use University-based and external sources to gather evidence in support of an argument. You will participate in exercises designed to help you understand the methods and conventions by which you can research, evaluate, and communicate your interest in both the practice and history or theory of art. You will also acquire the skills you need for the gathering and presenting of information in the academic context of an academic essay, such as citation to Harvard standards.

You will write an academic essay of no less than 1500 words, which will explore a theme relevant to your own studio practice. This essay and the preparatory research will help you identify the ways in which the wider context of contemporary fine art informs your work.

This module will also invite you to begin to explore the employment roles and career trajectories available in the visual art sector. You will initiate a personal Careers Portfolio which will help you begin to self-evaluate your current employability skills and career interests.

Lectures
Seminars
Tutorials
External Visits
Online resources
Group working

Batchelor, D. (ed.) (2008) “Introduction: On Colour and Colours,” in Colour. London: Whitechapel.

Beech, D. (ed.) (2009) “Introduction: Art and the Politics of Beauty,” in Beauty. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery.

Bishop, C. (2005)¿Installation art¿: a critical history.¿London: Tate.

Bourriaud, N. (2009)¿Altermodern¿: Tate Triennial 2009¿: published on the occasion of the exhibition at Tate Britain, London, 3 February-26 April 2009. London: Tate Publishing.

Dean, T. and Millar, J. (2005)¿Place. London: Thames & Hudson.

Doherty, C. (ed.) (2009) “Introduction: Situation,” in Situation. London: Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press

Groom, A. (ed.) (2013) “Introduction: We’re five hundred years before the man we just robbed was born,” in Time. London: Whitechapel Gallery

Farr, I. (ed.) (2012) “Introduction: Not Quite How I Remember It,” in Memory. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery

Harrison, C. and Wood, P. (2003)¿Art in theory, 1900-2000¿: an anthology of changing ideas. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell.

Hopkins, D. (2018)¿After Modern Art: 1945-2017. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hudek, A. (ed.) (2014) “Introduction: Detours of Objects,” in Antony Hudek, The object. 1st edition. London: Whitechapel Gallery

Iversen, M. (ed.) (2010) “Introduction: The Aesthetics of Chance,” in Chance. London: Whitechapel Gallery.

Johnstone, S. (ed.) (2008) “Introduction: Recent Art and the Everyday,” in The everyday. London¿: Whitechapel

Kastner, J. (ed.) (2012) “Introduction Art in the Age of the Anthropocene,” in Jeffrey Kastner, Nature. 1st edition. London: Whitechapel Gallery

Reckitt, H. (2012)¿Art and feminism. Abridged, revised and updated [edition]. London: Phaidon Press.

V. Terraroli (ed.) (2009).¿1969-1999: Neo-avant-gardes, postmodern and global art. Art of the 20th century v. 4. 1st ed. Milan¿: New York: Skira¿; Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International.

Williams, G. (2014)¿How to write about contemporary art.¿London: Thames and Hudson.

Further online resources are available via the Library.

Library
Student word-processing facilities
Computer suites
AV Equipment
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module.
Academic Skills Support