- Department: History of Art
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: H
- Academic year of delivery: 2024-25
- See module specification for other years: 2023-24
Students who have taken the I-level version of What is Pop Art? are prohibited from taking the H-version of the same module.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 2 2024-25 |
This module aims to develop clear and detailed thinking about the way in which art intersects with mass media and the way in which art criticism, the market and the museum work in a systematic way to frame our understanding of works of art. The way in which that system is affected by factors such as gender, sexuality, race, and class (and the intersection of those factors) will be a particular focus of study. These issues develop key skills for thinking about both the display and sale of art works.
Indicative seminars would include:
Modern Art and Mass Culture
Authorship
The Everyday and Aspiration
Pop and Media
The Hard Core of Pop
Pop, Politics and Social Class
Pop Art and Gender
Queer Pop
Pop and Celebrity Culture
Students should be able to
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
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Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
You will receive feedback on assessed work within the timeframes set out by the University - please check the Guide to Assessment, Standards, Marking and Feedback for more information.
The purpose of feedback is to help you to improve your future work. If you do not understand your feedback or want to talk about your ideas further, you are warmly encouraged to meet your Supervisor during their Office Hours.
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Alonso, Rodrigo, ed. Pop Realismi e Politica: Brasile-Argentina anni Sessanta. Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2013.
Feldman, Hannah. From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France 1945-1962. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
Giunta, Andrea. Avant-Garde, Internationalism and Politics: Argentine Art in the 1960s. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
Diederich, Stephan and Luise Pilz, eds. Ludwig Goes Pop. Ko¨ln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Ko¨nig, 2014.
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Martin, Courtney. "They've all got Painting: Frank Bowling's Modernity and the Post 1960 Atlantic." In Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic. Edited by Tanya Barson, 48-57. London: Tate, 2010.
Mercer, Kobena. "Introduction." In Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures, 7-33. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 2007.
Minioudaki, Kalliopi, and Sid Sachs. Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958-1968. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 2010.
Morgan, Jessica, ed. The EY Exhibition: The World Goes Pop. London: Tate, 2015.
Steif, Angela, ed. Power Up: Female Pop Art. Paris: Dumont, 2010.
Tate, Sue. Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman. Wolverhampton: Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museums, 2013.
Tomii,Reiko, ed. Shinohara Pops!. New Palz: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, 2012.
Whiting, Cecile. A Taste for Pop. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.