Module Learning Strategies
The module will look at relevant artists as diverse as Bill Woodrow, Callum Colvin, Stephen Boyd, Derek Jarman, Common Culture, Art & Language and Jake & Dinos Chapman.
You will experience the following learning strategies:
Lecture and seminar group work;
Researching and information gathering.
You will be able to apply these methodologies to the production of a new body of work.
Module Resources
Studio Space.
Exhibition spaces.
Specialist workshop facilities, as appropriate.
Library and slide library.
Word-processing facilities.
Internet access.
Module Texts
Bill Woodrow: Fools' Gold
Published: January 1996
Tate Gallery Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1854371991
Alan MCCOLLUM Surrogates
Essay by Craig Owens: BEYOND RECOGNITION:
REPRESENTATION, POWER, AND CULTURE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1992
(originally appeared in Art in America, September, 1983)
Jake & Dinos Chapman: Enjoy More
By Ansell Pearson, Jake Chapman
Hardcover / Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther Konig / November 2002 /
ISBN: 3883756113
Module Indicative Content
This module will offer you the opportunity to research into how artists develop their practice through visual and textual speculation. This research will be undertaken with a view to producing a studio work in the style or spirit of a particular artist or genre that you will identify as relevant to your own project.
Module Additional Assessment Details
You will present a body of coursework for assessment, as outlined in the module information pack. This will include the following elements:
An assessment of the transcription of an appropriately identified piece of studio work (3)
Evidence of picture/thematic research including a critical understanding of the conceptual issues involved in the production of the original (1, 2)