Course Details in 2024/25 Session

Module Title	LI American Art in the 1960s
School	Lan, Cult, Art Hist & Music
Department	Art Hist, Cur and Vis Studies
Module Code	09 26758
Module Lead	Matthew Rampley
Level	Intermediate Level
Credits	20
Semester	Semester 2
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Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-10 hours Seminar-20 hours Guided independent study-170 hours Total: 200 hours
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Description	This module consists of an analysis of art practices in America in the 1960s. It examines a range of practices, ranging from the post-painterly abstraction to pop art, minimalism and post-minimalism, conceptual art, performance art and land art. Covering a crucial decade in art, where traditional modernist definitions of art were overturned, the module considers not only art practices and their socio-political contexts, but also the critical aesthetic and philosophical debates that accompanied them.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: Exhibit an in-depth knowledge of the key artistic practices in America in the 1960s. Exhibit an understanding of the place of those practices in the wider cultural and social context of 1960s America Display a sound knowledge of the relevant critical debates over the question of how to interpret them Apply knowledge of those debates to the analysis of individual artists and works of art Identity primary and secondary sources relevant to the understanding and interpretation of American art and subject them to critical analysis
Assessment	26758-01 : Essay : Coursework (100%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Assessments: 1 x 4,000 word essay Reassessment: 1 x 4,000 word essay
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