Course: The Institutional Frame of Contemporary Art I

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Course title The Institutional Frame of Contemporary Art I
Course code KDT/FU027
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
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
1. Theories of the institutional frame (R. Barthes, U. Eco, A. C. Danto). 2. Theories of the institutional frame (C. Owens, M. Rosler). 3. Artworks as propositions for the definition of art (K. Malevich, M. Duchamp, J. Kosuth, J. Beuys, H. Haacke, R. Prince). 4. The mission, structure, and activity of art institutions (general models). 5. The mission, structure, and activity of museums (specific models). 6. The economy of arts (conceptualization, production, distribution, mediation, consumption, market). 7. The private and the non-profit sector (missions, motivations, funding, financing). 8. Cultural policy (history: 20th Century, national socialism, stalinism, democracy, illiberalism). 9. Cultural policy (present: post-soc region). 10. Museums of contemporary art (relevant institutions and activities). 11. Private collections of contemporary art (relevant collections and activities). 12. The art market: galleries (relevant institutions and activities). 13. The art market: fairs and auctions (relevant institutions and activities).

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course taught in English provides the very basics about institutions of contemporary visual art world, in order to facilitate and support emerging artists, designers and curators to communicate, and collaborate with art organizations, and to enable them to comprehensively understand the big picture of the art world, which is a system of relations and space of transactions. All the subject matters of the lectures are supported by glossary, bibliography, and case studies. The aim is to assist emerging artists, designers, and curators to act as full-time art and design professionals within the context of the current political, economic and cultural tendencies.
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
Attendance
Recommended literature
  • Abbing, Hans. Why Are Artists Poor? - The Exceptional Economy of The Arts. Amsterdam University Press, 2008.
  • Barthes, Roland. "The Death of the Author" in. Image, Music, Text. Fontana Press, 1977.
  • Danto, A. C. Beyond the Brillo Box. The Noonday Press, New York, 1992.
  • Kosuth, Joseph. Art after Philosophy (I-II.). Studio International, 1978.
  • Owens, Craig. From Work to Frame, or, Is There Life After 'Death of the Author. Beyond Recognition - Representation, Power, and Culture", University of California Press, 1992.
  • Rosler, Martha. Lookers, Buyers, Dealers, and Makers: Thoughts on Audience, In Art after Modernism, ed. B. Walllis and M. Tucker, The New Museum odf Contemporary Art, New York. The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1984.


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