PERFORMING ARTS
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 Fall	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)	They acquire theoretical, historical and aesthetic knowledge specific to their field by using methods and techniques related to performing arts (acting, dance, music, etc.).	2
2)	They have knowledge about art culture and aesthetics and they provide the unity of theory and practice in their field.	2
3)	They are aware of national and international values in performing arts.	2
4)	Abstract and concrete concepts of performing arts; can transform it into creative thinking, innovative and original works.	1
5)	They have the sensitivity to run a business successfully in their field.	3
6)	Develops the ability to perceive, think, design and implement multidimensional from local to universal.	3
7)	They have knowledge about the disciplines that the performing arts field is related to and can evaluate the interaction of the sub-disciplines within their field.	2
8)	They develop the ability to perceive, design, and apply multidimensionality by having knowledge about artistic criticism methods.	3
9)	They can share original works related to their field with the society and evaluate their results and question their own work by using critical methods.	1
10)	They follow English language resources related to their field and can communicate with foreign colleagues in their field.	1
11)	By becoming aware of national and international values in the field of performing arts, they can transform abstract and concrete concepts into creative thinking, innovative and original works.	3
12)	They can produce original works within the framework of an interdisciplinary understanding of art.	2
13)	Within the framework of the Performing Arts Program and the units within it, they become individuals who are equipped to take part in the universal platform in their field.	3
14)	Within the Performing Arts Program, according to the field of study; have competent technical knowledge in the field of acting and musical theater.	2
15)	They use information and communication technologies together with computer software that is at least at the Advanced Level of the European Computer Use License as required by the field.	3