COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SCULPTURE AS AN OBJECT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
STA 5039 SCULPTURE AS AN OBJECT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Art and Design

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GÖKCEN ERGÜR

Offered to

Art and Design

Course Objective

The Sculpture Art has questioned its existence in the face of the modernist experience, and the answers of these questions have been the beginning of a continuous and rapid morphological change. The lesson of Sculpture As Object aims to analyze and comment the role undertaken by the sculpture art beginning from the process of starting to live Modernism to the 1950 in the contemporary art environment and the transformation it has undergone based upon the certain artists and works.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to define the modernism phenomenon within the scope of the sculpture art.
2   To be able to evaluate the modernism phenomenon within the framework of the Turkish art.
3   To be able to analyze the discussions developing around the sculpture art within the scope of the modernism concept.
4   To reach the current resources with respect to the issue and to be able to evaluate them
5   To be able to correlate the artistic studies and accumulation with the issue

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Determination of Course coverage, bibliography and study subject Lectures
2 Investigation of modern sculpture and base Lectures
3 Modernism and status of the base in public space sculpture Lectures
4 Monumental sculpture and official rhetoric Lectures
5 Changing boundaries of material and form Lectures
6 The rediscovery of abstraction Lectures
7 The rediscovery of abstraction Lectures
8 Mid-term Exam Lectures
9 Sculpture as a construction Mid-term Exam
10 Sculpture as a construction Lectures
11 Material and form Lectures
12 Material and form Lectures
13 Assemblage Lectures
14 Assemblage Lectures
15 Final Exam Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Sanat ve Kuram, Charles Harrison Paul Wood, Türkçesi: Sabri Gürses, Küre Yayınları, Istanbul, 2011
Marcel Duchamp Ya daBüyük Kurgu, Jean Cleir, Türkçesi: Özge Açıkkol, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul, 2000
Avangard Kuramı, Peter Brüger, Türkçesi: Erol Özbek, Iletişim Yayınları, Istanbul, 2003
Sanatın Sonu, Donald Kuspit, Türkçesi: Yasemin Tezgiden, Metis Yayınları, Istanbul, 2006
Gerçeğin Geri Dönüşü, Hal Foster, Türkçesi: Esin Hoşsucu, Ayrıntı Yayınları, 2006
Sanatın Sonundan Sonra, Artur C. Danto, Türkçesi: Zeynep Demirsü, Ayrıntı Yayınları, Istanbul, 2010
Özgürleşen Seyirci, Jacques Ranciére, Türkçesi: E. Burak Şaman, Metis Yayınları, Istanbul, 2010
Sıradan Olanın Başkalaşımı, Artur C. Danto, Türkçesi: Esin Berktaş-Özge, Ayrıntı Yayınları, Istanbul, 2012
Modern Artists on Art, Robert L. Herbert, Dover Publications, New York, 2000

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Expression through visual presentation
2. Discussion on the lecture topics, evaluation, sharing ideas
3. Preparing a research paper
4. Final exam.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 STA TERM WORK (ANNUAL)
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE STA * 0.70 +ASG* 0.30


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1- Attendance status of the student,
2- The student s active participation in the lesson and the quality of his/her contributions
3- The proficiency displayed by the student in terms of preparing the the assesment
4- Achievement in mid-term and final exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1- Attend at least 70% of the class,
2- To comply with previously determined homework-presentation-seminar and exam calender
3- Achievement in mid-term and final exam

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gokcennergurr@gmail.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 154

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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