Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Liverpool School of Art & Design

Learning Methods

Lecture

Off Site

Seminar

Tutorial

Module Offerings

4110HA-SEP-MTP

Aims

To outline key developments in the history of the artist. To examine them in the context of films, monographs and autobiography. To introduce basic materials and techniques used by artists and develop an understanding of these.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Compile a case study with appropriate contextual material;
2.
Interpret artists’ reasons for selecting particular materials and techniques and demonstrate an understanding of those materials and techniques.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
The module will include: Artists; Mythmaking and Hagiography; Gender and Creativity; The Notion of Self-Expression; Artists and the Art Market; Artists Education from Apprentice to Academy; Artists Education from Ateliers to Bauhaus; Artists on Film; Authorship and 'Making' Processes; and Methods, Self Portraits and Testimonials.
Module Overview:
This module will outline key developments in the history of the artist. You will examine them in the context of films, monographs and autobiography to introduce basic materials and techniques used by artists and develop an understanding of these.
Additional Information:
The module examines the ways in which the artist has been represented under the aegis of academicism and modernism from the 16th to the 21st century. Looking at how the fine arts have been variously institutionalised and how artists have been professionalised, it considers the implications of the monopoly academies had over the artist and the types of art practices they engaged with. It examines the shifts in post-romantic notions of the artist and how art practices changed with the advent of the modernist art school. The module also introduces students to practical materials and techniques used and developed by artists and encourages students to see the relationship between materials and style.

Assessments

Presentation

Essay