Бакалавриат
2024/2025
Актуальные проблемы искусствознания. Английский язык продвинутый
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Совместная программа по экономике НИУ ВШЭ и РЭШ)
Когда читается:
3-й курс, 3, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Modern art is a very complicated and controversial phenomenon which cannot be anymore approached with the simple measuring stick of the intuitive criterion “beautiful/ugly”. As we are bombarded by an astounding array of images, objects and performances offered by modern artists it is very easy to become overwhelmed, skeptical or conservative trying to deal with this seemingly unruly chaos of ideas and forms of artistic creativity. It makes the viewer wonder whether the term “art” still has any meaning, whether the great art of the past has not been turned into profanation, an empty gesture or a mere financial instrument. In this class we engage into a critical analysis of the modern art, the origins of its key ideas and its creative rethinking of the pressing political and social issues. The course is targeted at researching the different strategies that artists use to understand the modern world, the historical context in which their art is created and received by audiences, the ways in which the world is changing. The students will have an opportunity to discuss the state of the global culture, how art participates in the collective life of the society. The course teaches the students to express their ideas in clear, structured and engaging presentations, as well as written texts in the English language. We will focus on the levels of description, contextualization and analysis as the key steps to speaking and writing about art. Formation of an informed judgment, based on reflection and art-historical knowledge rather than aesthetic intuitions is the key goal of the course along with the development of complex language skills, expanding general and subject-specific vocabulary, familiarization with the writing style of texts in the fields of art history, art critique and visual culture.
Learning Objectives
- The essential facet of the course is the emphasis on building English language fluency in terms of both written and oral discourse. The course methodology relies on promoting class discussions, presentations and writing activities. The key transferrable skill that is at the centre of the course is the ability to understand, analyze and critique the ideas of others with the aim of constructing and presenting your own argument in an academically rigorous and persuasive way.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Can analyze pricing mechanisms, auction dynamics, and collector influence in the art world.
- Has mastered methods for evaluating the financial and cultural value of contemporary artworks.
- Knows institutional hierarchies and decision-making processes in major museum models (public/private/nonprofit)
- Can develop critical proposals for audience development and community co-creation
- Has mastered tools for analyzing exhibition design as narrative construction
- Can design engagement strategies balancing artistic integrity and public agency
- Has mastered conflict resolution techniques for contested heritage scenarios
- Knows how specific inventions (1839-1900) altered artistic production chains
- Can compare contemporaneous debates about technology's cultural impacts
- Has mastered Walter Benjamin's "aura" concept through 19th-century case studies
- Can analyze how artists mediate relationships between humans and machines
- Has mastered critical frameworks for assessing tech-driven art in neoliberal contexts
- Can critically analyze exhibitions as sites of geopolitical negotiation
- Has mastered decolonial frameworks for assessing transnational collaborations
- Can apply Benjamin's concepts to analyze contemporary digital art ecosystems
- Has mastered critical tools for assessing authorship claims in algorithmically-generated art
- Can develop risk assessment protocols for ethically complex artworks
- Has mastered conflict resolution strategies for art-related public controversies
- Can critically assess therapeutic claims in participatory art projects
- Has mastered protocols for evaluating art's mental health impacts in community settings
- Can develop sustainability assessments for artistic projects
- Has mastered critical tools for analyzing art's complicity/complicity in ecological damage
- Knows key 20th-21st century protest art movements and their socio-political contexts
- Can decode visual rhetoric in activist artworks across media
- Has mastered ethical frameworks for creating participatory protest art
Course Contents
- The Visual Vocabulary of Contemporary Art.
- The Economics of Contemporary Art
- The Contemporary Museum
- The Participatory Museum
- Art and Technology: 19th century
- Art and Technology: 20th-21st century.
- Art Going Global
- The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility 2.0: Author in the Age of AI.
- Art and Ethics
- Psychological Issues: Art and Therapy
- Art and Environment
- Art and Protest
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 4th module0.2 * 1 Class Presentation + 0.3 * Essay 1 + 0.35 * Essay 2 + 0.15 * Participation
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Arts Education Partnership, & National Art Education Association. (2019). Visual Arts Matter: How Visual Arts Education Helps Students Learn, Achieve and Thrive. Arts Education Partnership. Arts Education Partnership. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=eric&AN=ED596318
- Baker, S., Istvandity, L., & Nowak, R. (2019). Curating Pop : Exhibiting Popular Music in the Museum. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2109237
- Corrigall-Brown, C. (2012). Patterns of Protest : Trajectories of Participation in Social Movements. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=713481
- Huysmans, J.-K., & King, B. (2019). Modern Art. Cambs: Dedalus. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2031751
- Jerry, H. (2016). Antropology, culture and enviromental studies: presentation. https://doi.org/10.6035/Millars.any.número
- Jonathan Harris. (2001). The New Art History : A Critical Introduction. Routledge.
- Kavanagh, G. (1996). Making Histories in Museums. London: Continuum. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=242952
- Laurence J. Brahm. (2011). Art of the Deal in China : A Practical Guide to Business Etiquette and the 36 Martial Strategies Employed by Chinese Businessmen and Officals in China. [N.p.]: Tuttle Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1568264
- Martin E. P. Seligman. (1995). The effectiveness of psychotherapy: The Consumer Reports Study. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.43FF19E0
- Michael Betancourt. (2017). Glitch Art in Theory and Practice : Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics. Routledge.
- Singer, P. (1993). A Companion to Ethics. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=44509
- Максимова, Т. Д. A Look into History of English : учебное пособие / Т. Д. Максимова. — Барнаул : АлтГПУ, 2019. — 118 с. — ISBN 978-5-88210-943-0. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/139201 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- 9780470998427 - Smith, Paul; Wilde, Carolyn - A Companion to Art Theory - 2008 - John Wiley & Sons - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=90369 - nlebk - 90369
- 9780691133737 - Bruce Altshuler - Collecting the New : Museums and Contemporary Art - 2007 - Princeton University Press - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=644647 - nlebk - 644647
- Cassidy, C. A., Fabola, A. E., Miller, A., Weil, K., Urbina, S., Antas, M., & Cummins, A. (2019). Digital pathways in community museums. https://doi.org/10.1111/muse.12198
- Eduard E. Shults - Contemporary Russian Political Protest - 978-5-392-35842-7 - Проспект - 2021 - http://ebs.prospekt.org/book/45199 - 45199 - PROSPECT
- Jordan, S. L. (2018). ARH 141 Introduction to the History of Modern Art. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.D356E4E9
- Kristina Jõekalda. (2013). ‘What has become of the New Art History?’ Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.5E7477C3
- Nathaniel, H. The Artist of the Beautiful / H. Nathaniel. — Санкт-Петербург : Лань, 2014. — 14 с. — ISBN 978-5-507-40065-2. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/50925 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
- Scheper-Hughes, N. (1995). The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.E72771EF
- Цветкова Т.К. - English Grammar Guide - 978-5-392-12486-2 - Проспект - 2014 - http://ebs.prospekt.org/book/22480 - 22480 - PROSPECT