Modern & Contemporary Art: Research Skills & Methods - HOA00092M
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- Department: History of Art
- Credit value: 10 credits
- Credit level: M
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Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
Module will run
| Occurrence |
Teaching period |
| A |
Autumn Term 2022-23 to Spring Term 2022-23 |
Module aims
- To provide guidance regarding expectations for MA work and advanced scholarly research specialising in Modern and Contemporary Art
- To help students make the transition from undergraduate to MA and (potentially) PhD work
- To familiarize students with principal archival, bibliographic and art-historical resources for Modern and Contemporary Art
- To introduce a range of significant methodologies and insights from the forefront of Modern and Contemporary Art
- To encourage students to adopt and adapt methodologies to suit their own developing intellectual interests and specialism
- To demonstrate how art and architectural historical knowledge and methodology develop within a community of scholars
Module learning outcomes
- To be familiar with archival, bibliographic and art-historical resources relevant to their own Modern and Contemporary Art specialism
- To be able to deploy appropriate scholarly conventions in their own work
- To be familiar with a range of methodologies significant for the art historical study of Modern and Contemporary Art
- To know how to apply and adapt methodologies appropriate to their specialism
- To be able to develop independent research within the context of previous scholarship
Indicative assessment
| Task |
% of module mark |
| Essay/coursework |
100 |
Special assessment rules
Non-compensatable
Indicative reassessment
| Task |
% of module mark |
| Essay/coursework |
100 |
Module feedback
Feedback on summative assessment within 20 working days.
Indicative reading
- Hal Foster et al (eds) Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (2004)
- Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz (eds) Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artist's Writings (2012)
- Amelia Jones (ed) A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945 (2006)
- Donald Preziosi, ed., The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology, 2nd ed. 2009
- Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk, Art History: A Critical Introduction to its Methods, 2006
