Course: Visual Communication I

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Course title Visual Communication I
Course code KDT/869
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Szoboszlai János György, PhD., M.A.
Course content
These informations are in the annotation of the course.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course focuses on one particular medium of communication between art and society: the exhibition. The course provides basic concepts of museum- and exhibition studies (display, discursivity, white cube, funding, interpretation, curatorial, educational turn, performativity). 1. Museion, collection, studiolo, library, Wunderkammer. 2. The brief history of the museum: Private collections. 3. The brief history of the museum: Private museums. 4. The brief history of the museum: Public allowed museums. 5. The brief history of the museum: Public reactive museums. 6. The brief history of the museum: Public proactive museums. 7. The functions and activities of the modern museum (roles and responsibilities). 8. The brief history of the science of art history. 9. Russian avangarde exhibition design. 10. The white cube. 11. The criticism of the white cube. 12. Biennales, biennalisation. 13. The most relevant contemporary art museums of the global art Word.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Dialogue
Recommended literature
  • Belting, H. Global Art as Contemporary Art. The Global Art World - Audiences, Markets, and Museums. Osfildern Hatje Canz, 2009.
  • Bennett, T. The Exhibitionary Complex - The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politcs. New York, Routledge, 1995.
  • Bourriaud, N. Esthétique Relationelle. Dijon, 1998.
  • Edson, G. and Dean, D. The Handbook for Museums. Routledge, London and New York, 1994.
  • Greenberg, R.; Ferguson, B. W.; Mairne, S. Thinking about Exhibitions. Routledge, 1996.
  • Harding, A. ed. Curating - The Contemporary Art Museum and Beyond. Art & Design 52/1997, 1997.
  • http://tranzit.org/curatorialdictionary/index.php/dictionary. http://tranzit.org/curatorialdictionary/index.php/dictionary.
  • Kester, G. Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially Engaged Art. Theory inContemporary Art Since 1985, Blackwell, 2008.
  • O' Neill, P. The Curatorial Turn: From Practice to Discourse. In. Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance. Intellect Books, Bristol, 2007.
  • Obrist, H. U. A Brief History of Curating. Zürich-Dijon, JRP Ringier-Les Presses, 2008.
  • O´Doherty, B. . Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space. University of California Press, 1999.


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