COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM IN ART

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FEL 6022 MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM IN ART ELECTIVE 3 0 0 11

Offered By

PHILOSOPHY

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR METIN BAL

Offered to

PHILOSOPHY

Course Objective

The course objectives are to present the difference between modernism and modern understanding of art, and to introduce theories of art essential to modernism by reading currents in modernist philosophy, and to focus on the time of the emergence of postmodernism in the realm of art, and to investigate the critiques directed towards postmodernism.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   By the end of this course students will be able to comprehend depth models that are constituent elements for Modernism.
2   distinguish the differences between Modernism and Postmodernism and discern the characteristic properties of both theories.
3   Raise arguments for the solution of the related problems and convey these solutions to others.
4   arrive at new philosophical problems,
5   ground the answers to these problems on safe foundations.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Origin of Modernism
2 Depth models
3 Freud, unconsciousness and art
4 Phenomenology and art
5 Formalism, Semiology and art
6 Art in the division of essence and existence
7 Surrealism and commodification of image
8 Mid-term exam
9 Transition from Modernism to Postmodernism
10 Definition and features of Postmdernism
11 Rejection of style and climax of commodification
12 Heidegger and art in the age of cybernetic futurology
13 Adorno and authenticity
14 Benjamin, Brecht and transformation of art

Recomended or Required Reading

ANDERSON, Perry, Modernlik ve Devrim , çev. Ali Türker Erdağı, içinde: Toplumbilim, Temmuz, Sayı 11, Istanbul: Bağlam Yayınları, 2000.
BAUDRILLARD, Jean, Simülakrlar ve Simülasyon, çev. Oğuz Adanır, Ankara: Doğu Batı Yayınları, 2008.
BEST, Steven & KELLNER, Douglas, Postmodern Teori, Eleştirel Soruşturmalar, çev. Mehmet Küçük, Istanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, 1998.
BAUMAN, Zygmunt, Postmodernlik ve Hoşnutsuzlukları, Istanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, 2000.
BUCHANAN, Ian, (Ed.), Jameson on Jameson, Concersations on Cultural Marxism, London: Duke University Press, 2007.
BURKE, Seán, The Death and Return of the Author, Edinburgh Uni. Press, 1998.
CHIMISSO, Cristina, Gaston Bachelard, Critic of Science and the Imagination, New York: Routledge, 2001.
DOWLING, C. William, Jameson, Althusser, Marx, An Introduction to The Political Unconscious, New York: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

See "Assessment Methods" and "ECTS Table"

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-3 will be evaluated by his/her presentation
LO 4-5 will be evaluated by the assignment of the student and by the questions that will be asked in midterm and final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. %70 attendance is required.
2. The participation in midterm and final exams will be considered in grading.
3. The participation in presentation activity will be considered in grading.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Doç. Dr. Metin Bal
0232 301 94 11
metin.bal@deu.edu.tr
http://www.metinbal.net

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 8 3 24
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparation for midterm exam 1 40 40
Preparing assignments 1 50 50
Preparing presentations 1 55 55
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 7 84
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 279

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.155
LO.255
LO.354
LO.4
LO.55545