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20th-21st Century Art

Course code

KUA6063.FK

old course code

KUA6063

Course title in Estonian

20.-21. sajandi kunst

Course title in English

20th-21st Century Art

ECTS credits

4.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Orientating in the problems and processes of the Western modernist and postmodernist art from the end of the 19th century to real time of the course.

Brief description of the course

To provide an insight into international art life and the dynamism of art from the 19th century to current developments. Macro-level categories: modernist amd post-modernist art. Science, technology, politics influencing aesthetics, art and architecture. Politics of aesthetics. Institutional aspects. Biennials and their politics. Basic terms.
Concrete cases: schools and artists. Optikal trend (photography, film, impressionist painting, op-art, surveillance society). Conceptual trend (dada, pop art, conceptualism, postmodern art). Modernist art and criticism. Abstractionist versus figurative art and political background. Gender based, postcolonialist theory and art, critical theory and art, artists analysing business, scandals, simulations etc. Biennials and their policies.
Each students makes an oral presentation of selected artist.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- orientates in the main issues and problems of the Western 20th-21st century art;
- understands the meanings and backgrounds of art pieces and individual artists;
- understands the relations between art theory and practice;
- knows terminology;
- is familiar with the functioning of art world and its policies.

Teacher

Dots Heie Treier

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