MATHEMATICS
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
POV4411	Topics in History of Art	Spring	2	2	3	5

This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Instructor DENİZ EYÜCE ŞANSAL
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This history of art course will explore topics in the history and theory of art in a range of pictorial and spatial arts across different geographies since the invention of photography and in relation to subsequent developments of the moving image technologies of film and video. It will assess the relations between traditions of art and these new image-making technologies, as well as exploring a range of other factors in the shifts and alterations in the practices and theories of art since the mid-19th century, but it will concentrate on the recent emergence of different types of work with or in relation to cameras.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Recognize work made by artists in relation to a series of modern art movements
2. Assess alternative modes of understanding and assessing this tradition of modern art
3. Recognize debates about the status of the photographic, filmic and video image in relation to operative definitions of art
4. Recognize different modes of modernism in the visual arts and differentiate particular works in relation to these.
5. Identify and assess different modes of the breakdown of progressivist accounts of modern art
6. Identify and assess the emergence of work associated with generic innovation in the visual arts, including happenings, performance, installation and intervention
7. Identify and differentiate different accounts of the postmodern in the visual arts
8. Critically differentiate the effects, aims and achievements of recent camera or other work in the gallery or elsewhere
9. Respond to the innovations in modern and postmodern art in the preparation of camera assignments

Course Content

Students can expect to become familiar with accounts of modern art as a series of movements including realism, impressionism, cubism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, conceptualism and minimalism, as well as accounts which stress other factors and modes of analysis. Work using photography, film and video will be introduced alongside more traditional genres and media of art. Critical arguments about the value and purpose of art, in particular accounts of modernism and postmodernism will be outlined. These will be tested by and through the critical investigation of recent art, its meanings and effects.

Students will be encouraged to ask critical questions about the relations between art, traditions, institutions and knowledge and to propose work that interests them for analysis. Work by Turkish artists will be introduced where appropriate. There will be three camera assignments set in relation to the arguments and ideas of the course.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction - Art and its institutions: Academies, salons, museums, galleries.
2)	From Realism to Surrealism.	Reading: Gombrich, E.H. ‘Permanent Revolution: The nineteenth century’, ‘In Search of New Standards: The late nineteenth century’, and ‘Experimental Art: The first half of the twentieth century’, The Story of Art, 499-555 and 557-97.
3)	Modern art movements: advantages and disadvantages of ‘-isms.’ Assignment I.	Reading: Richard R. Brettel, ‘Realism to Surrealism’, 11-47.
4)	Photography, art and modern visual culture.	Brettel, ‘Photography’, 74-8; ‘Representation, Vision, and “Reality”: the Art of Seeing’, 83-103; and ‘Fragmentation, dislocation and recombination’, 120-3.
5)	Post-war art and modernisms: Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dada and Pop.	Reading: Gombrich, E.H. ‘A Story Without End: The triumph of Modernism’, 599-626 and Hopkins, D. ‘The Politics of Modernism: Abstract Expressionism and the European Informel’, ‘Duchamp’s Legacy: The Rauschenberg-Johns Axis’ and ‘The Artist in Crisis: From Bacon to Beuys’, 5-34, 37-93.
6)	Minimalism, Conceptualism, performance and the uses of video.	Hopkins, ‘Modernism in Retreat: Minimalist Aesthetics and Beyond’ and ‘The Death of the Object: The Move to Conceptualism’, 131-95.
7)	Revision and assignment evaluation.	Working on the assignments.
8)	Assignment 2	Working on the assignments.
9)	Postmodernisms, hybrid genres and cultures.	Reading: Hopkins, ‘Postmodernism: Theory and Practice in the 1980s’ and ‘Into the 1990s’, 197-245.
10)	Issues in recent art-I: the photographic image, objectivity, memory, history.	Campany, D. ‘Survey’, Art and Photography, 11-45; works from Art and Photography, 46-87.
11)	Issues in recent art-II: the photographic image, the body and identity and the everyday.	Reading: Works from Art and Photography, 88-133.
12)	Issues in recent art-III: studio images, reproduction and simulation, nature as culture.	Reading: Works from Art and Photography, 134-205.
13)	Issues in recent art-IV: the moving image in the gallery-spectacle, appropriation, intimacy, temporality.	Newman, M. ‘Moving Image in the Gallery since the 1990s’, Film and Video Art, 86-121.
14)	Assignment 3	Working on the assignments.

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

GOMBRICH, E.H. (1995). The Story of Art. 16th edition, London: Phaidon. [relevant chapters]

References:

1. BRETTEL, Richard R. (1999). Modern Art. 1851-1929. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [extracts]
2. CAMPANY, David. (2003). Art and Photography. London: Phaidon.
3. COMER, Stuart (ed.). (2009). Film and Video Art. London: Tate Gallery.
4. HOPKINS, David. (2000). After Modern Art. 1945-2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. www.artarchive.com & The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)www.metmuseum.org/toah.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Homework Assignments	3	% 30
Midterms	1	% 20
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	13	4	52
Homework Assignments	3	8	24
Midterms	1	1	1
Final	1	1	1
Total Workload			120

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	To have a grasp of basic mathematics, applied mathematics and theories and applications in Mathematics
2)	To be able to understand and assess mathematical proofs and construct appropriate proofs of their own and also define and analyze problems and to find solutions based on scientific methods,
3)	To be able to apply mathematics in real life with interdisciplinary approach and to discover their potentials,
4)	To be able to acquire necessary information and to make modeling in any field that mathematics is used and to improve herself/himself,	4
5)	To be able to tell theoretical and technical information easily to both experts in detail and non-experts in basic and comprehensible way,
6)	To be familiar with computer programs used in the fields of mathematics and to be able to use at least one of them effectively at the European Computer Driving Licence Advanced Level,
7)	To be able to behave in accordance with social, scientific and ethical values in each step of the projects involved and to be able to introduce and apply projects in terms of civic engagement,
8)	To be able to evaluate all processes effectively and to have enough awareness about quality management by being conscious and having intellectual background in the universal sense,	4
9)	By having a way of abstract thinking, to be able to connect concrete events and to transfer solutions, to be able to design experiments, collect data, and analyze results by scientific methods and to interfere,
10)	To be able to continue lifelong learning by renewing the knowledge, the abilities and the competencies which have been developed during the program, and being conscious about lifelong learning,
11)	To be able to adapt and transfer the knowledge gained in the areas of mathematics ; such as algebra, analysis, number theory, mathematical logic, geometry and topology to the level of secondary school,
12)	To be able to conduct a research either as an individual or as a team member, and to be effective in each related step of the project, to take role in the decision process, to plan and manage the project by using time effectively.