ARE 470 TEACHING VISUAL CULTURE

 

Catalogue Description: exploration of issues and applications of everyday aesthetics that contain powerful technological, social and economic factors. Prerequisite: ARE 440 or instructor approval.

 

ARE 470 PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES Students will:

 

Rationale

Conceptions of art are changing and expanding. The boundaries that inform our understanding of art institutions, form, practices, and values are in flux. Recent theoretical and philosophical shifts have emerged in and across various domains of knowledge. Those shifts have been informed by critical theories, such as postmodernism and feminism, and shape analyses of art and culture. New self-conscious trans-disciplinary fields of study have emerged to challenge conceptual dichotomies, such as fine/popular arts. As a result of these changes, it has become necessary to expand the concept and practice of art education to the realm of visual culture. The term visual culture reflects the recent global explosion of prolific pervasive visual images and artifacts and their importance to social life. (Boughton, et al., 2002).

 

 

SYLLABUS

 

PART I

WHAT IS VISUAL CULTURE AND INTRODUCTION TO THE OPEN CONCEPT OF ART

REVIEW OF STUDENTS' EARLY FORMATIVE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCES

REVIEW HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS PHOTO CRITICISM

REPRESENTATION THEORIES [ART AS IMITATION OR MIMESIS]

AESTHETICS OF THE GHOULISH AND FOOLISH

DICKIE'S INSTITUTIONAL THEORY OF ART

CLASH OF INSTITUTIONS: Christo and Running Fence Video

CONDUCT ART CRITICISM OF A PUBLIC ART WORK

DISCUSSION OF FINAL PROJECTS AND PRESENTATIONS:

 

PART II: MULTICULTURAL AESTHETICS & ART CRITICISM

TOURIST and ETHNIC ARTS

MULTICULTURAL ART CRITICISM [CONGDON]: THE FISHING SHOW AND THE FLOWER PARADE

NAVAJO AESTHETICS:

WHAT US ART FOR? [FUNCTIONALIST THEORIES] Dissanayake

 

PART III: APPLICATION IN THE CLASSROOM

ISSUES IN TEACHING VISUAL CULTURE: POPULAR CULTURE & POLITICAL PEDAGOGY

HOLIDAY AESTHETICS: DAY OF THE DEAD: VIDEO

UNDERSTANDING POPULAR CULTURE: THE USES AND ABUSES OF FASHION ADVERTISEMENT.

FEMINIST AESTHETICS

POST MODERNISM AND ARCHITECTURE

FINAL PRESENTATIONS

 

 

REFERENCES

Boughton, et al. (2002). Art Education and Visual culture. Advisory. Reston, VA: NAEA.

Dissanayake. E. (1988). What is art for? Seattle WA: University of Washington Press.

Duncum, P. (1999). A case for an art education of everyday aesthetic experiences. Studies in Art Education, 40(4), 295-311.

Duncum, P. "Towards an Art Education of Everyday Aesthetics. In review.

Featherstone, M. (1991). Consumer culture and post modernism. London: Sage.

Freedman, K. (1999). Aesthetics and the problem of meaning in curriculum. Paper presented at the New Zealand Art Educators's Conference. Christ church, New Zealand.

Stokrocki, M. (2000). Go to the Mall and Get it All:

Adolescents' Aesthetic Values in the Shopping Mall. Art Education, 54 (2), 18-23

Stokrocki, M. (1988). Understanding popular culture: The uses and abuses of fashion advertisement. Journal of the Caucus of Social Theory and Art Education, 8, 69-77.