Berlin by Agnetha Mortensen, 2014 student

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1 Berlin by Agnetha Mortensen, 2014 student COURSE HANDBOOK SUMMER STUDY ABROAD EUROPEAN ART HISTORY: LONDON & BERLIN SUMMER

2 Teaching institution Chelsea College of Arts Duration of course 3 weeks Dates 4 th 22 nd July 2016 Tutor Dr Andrew Chesher COURSE OUTLINE Through lectures, visits, discussion groups and studio-based workshops, this course offers you the opportunity to engage with the art, history, environment and culture of London and Berlin through an intensive three week programme. From the historic collections in the National Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, to the modern and contemporary displays to be found in the cavernous Tate Modern, London s collections of art and design offer an unmatchable resource for the course. Your learning will be enhanced by a four day trip to Berlin, accompanied by the course tutor, who will guide you through the art and culture of one of Europe s most dynamic cities. This visit brings a further perspective to your Study Abroad experience and will give you greater insight into the development of European society, through art and design. Flights, accommodation and entrance fees in Berlin are included in the course fees. AIMS This course will provide you with: A conducive learning environment with a variety of learning situations and content Acquaintance with a representative range of ideas and examples from European Art History A variety of study methods ranging from group lectures and visits to a solo project. OUTCOMES On completing the course you should be able to: demonstrate a broad acquaintance with European Art History understand the significance of key examples and ideas within European Art History carry out basic research and apply ideas from it to new examples engage in and contribute to seminar discussions and debates make a brief presentation to your peers write reflectively on your experience and practice LEARNING AND TEACHING METHODS Lectures Seminars Contextual visits and discussions Private study and research Reflective writing assignment Practical project Student presentation 2

3 ASSESSMENT Short pieces of reflective writing A practice-based project to brief Brief presentation of research and practice to peer group PROJECTS 3 PHOTOGRAPHS - Research and explore the modes of photographic practice introduced during the Photography lecture and seminar. Choose one these modes to experiment with and produce 3 photos that are related to it. Make a short presentation on what you researched around the mode and how you choose to explore it in your own images. 3 SPACES - Choose 3 venues from the list presented to you, and reflect in a short piece of reflective writing on the spatial experience they offer. Use the set text and its descriptions of spaces as your starting point. Student work will be displayed in the Cookhouse Gallery as part of the Summer Study Abroad Exhibition on Friday 22 nd July. MATERIALS REQUIRED Digital camera (alternatively a good camera on your phone) Notebook and pen or pencil Laptop or tablet (for writing, researching, and uploading photos to a blog) Sturdy footwear (for walking through the city) Waterproofs and/or umbrella Small, day rucksack Street map of London (either a printed A-Z, or alternative on a mobile device) SCHEDULE WEEK ONE Summer Study Abroad welcome orientation Photography: Fact or Fiction? Art and the Archive Identity and Representation Visits to Tate Modern, Barbican Art Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery WEEK TWO Berlin trip from Monday to Thursday, including visits to; Pergamonmuseum Alte Nationalgalerie Reichstag Dome Bauhaus Museum Walking tour including Checkpoint Charlie and Oranienstaße New Jewish Museum Hamburger Bahnhof and Julian Rosefeldt Exhibition Contemporary art galleries 3

4 NB course fees include roundtrip flights from London to Berlin, shared accommodation and all entrance fees in Berlin WEEK THREE Art and Popular culture: the Independent Group and Pop Art The Painting of Modern Life From Colonialism to Post-Colonialism Visits to Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Courtauld Institute Summer Study Abroad exhibition at the Cookhouse Gallery TUTOR Dr Andrew Chesher lectures in Art Theory at Chelsea College or Art. He is currently coordinator of stage one theory on the Undergraduate Fine Art course. In he ran seminar courses in philosophies of meaning and the phenomenology of perception. The subjects he lectures on range from photography and film theory to philosophy and social theory. As a filmmaker Andrew has concentrated on documentary projects since His last two completed films were documentaries about music. Changing the System (2007) is an hourlong observational documentary exploring the score and rehearsal of an indeterminate composition by Christian Wolff. Knots and Fields (75 mins, 2010) looks at the history and ongoing relevance of the Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, which brought together Boulez, Stockhausen, Nono and Cage, among others, in 1950s. This documentary was produced in collaboration with David Ryan, includes interviews with Pierre Boulez, Helmut Lachenmann and Brian Ferneyhough. Andrew's PhD on documentary and dialogue, which he completed in 2007, was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College of Art, London, and an MA in the Theory and History of Modern Art from Chelsea, UAL. BIBLIOGRAPHY Photography Jeffery, Ian, Photography: a concise history, London: Thames and Hudson, 1981 Fiedler, Jeannine ed., Bauhaus Photography, London: Nishen, Krauss, Rosalind et al, L amour fou: Surrealism and Photography, London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1986 Space, City, Architecture De Certeau, Michel, Spatial Stories, The Practice of Everyday Life, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, Barthes, Roland, The Eiffel Tower, The Eiffel Tower and other Mythologies, University of California Press, Kipnis, Jeffery and Vidler, Anthony, Daniel Libeskind: The Space of Encounter, London: Thames and Hudson, Bauhaus and the Avant-Garde Whitford, Frank, Bauhaus, London: Thames and Hudson, Bergdoll, Barry and Dickerman, Leah (eds.) Bauhaus, : Workshops for Modernity, New York: MoMA, Borchardt-Hume, Achim ed., Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World, London: Tate, Realism 4

5 Nochlin, Linda, Realism, London: Penguin Books, 1971 Clark, TJ., Image of the People:Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, Berkeley: University of California Press, Fer, Briony et. al. Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art between the Wars, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993 Art and Pop Culture Robbins, David ed., The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetic of Plenty, Cambridge, MA; London: MIT Press, Lawrence Alloway, The Long Front of Culture, in Modern Dreams: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Pop, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Art, Nature and Ecology Flood, Richard and Morris, Frances, eds., Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, , London: Tate Gallery Publications, Manacorda, Francesco and Yedgar, Ariella, eds. Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet, , London: Barbican Art Gallery and Koenig Books, European Film Bazin, André, The Evolution of the Language of Cinema, in Braudy and Cohen, eds., Film Theory and Criticism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Dayan, Daniel, The Tutor-Code of Classical Cinema, in Braudy and Cohen, eds., Film Theory and Criticism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Silverman, Kaja and Farocki, Harun, Speaking about Godard, New York: New York University Press, Last updated 4 th March