080042 UE Course: Art Criticism from the Académie Royale to The White Pube. History and Practice (2020S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from We 05.02.2020 10:00 to We 12.02.2020 10:00
- Registration is open from Fr 14.02.2020 10:00 to Fr 21.02.2020 10:00
- Deregistration possible until We 11.03.2020 10:00
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max. 25 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Monday 02.03. 12:00 - 13:00 Seminarraum 5 d.Inst.f.Kunstg. (1.Stock) Uni-Campus Hof 9 3F-O1-22.A
- Saturday 21.03. 11:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum 5 d.Inst.f.Kunstg. (1.Stock) Uni-Campus Hof 9 3F-O1-22.A
- Saturday 28.03. 11:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum 5 d.Inst.f.Kunstg. (1.Stock) Uni-Campus Hof 9 3F-O1-22.A
- Saturday 25.04. 11:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum 3 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-25
- Saturday 09.05. 11:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum 5 d.Inst.f.Kunstg. (1.Stock) Uni-Campus Hof 9 3F-O1-22.A
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Active participation in class, preparation of one article and/or exhibition, as well as writing at least one critique of an ongoing exhibition.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Regular participation, presentation and texts.
Criteria: Precision of your analysis and arguments.
Criteria: Precision of your analysis and arguments.
Examination topics
Reading list
Charles Baudelaire: Der Künstler und das moderne Leben : Essays, "Salons", intime Tagebücher, Schumann, Henry (Hg.), Leipzig : Reclam, 1990Sabeth Buchmann/Isabelle Graw, « Kritik der Kunstkritik », Texte zur Kunst, 113 März 2019, https://www.textezurkunst.de/113/kritik-der-kunstkritik/Noel Carroll: On Criticism, Oxford: Taylor & Francis, 2008James D. Carney: "A Historical Theory of Art Criticism", Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Spring, 1994), pp. 13-29Ben Davis: “International Art English: The Joke That Forgot It Was Funny.”, The Huffington Post. December 7, 2017. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/artinfo/international-art-english-the-joke-that-forgot-it-was-funny_b_3397760.html.Denis Diderot: Schriften zur Kunst, ausgewählt und mit einem Nachwort von Peter Bexte, Berlin: Philo & PhiloFineArts, 2005James Elkins (Hg.): The State of Art Criticism, Oxford: Routledge, 2007Hal Foster: Bad new days. Art, Criticism, Emergency, London/New York: Verso Books, 2015Jutta Held: Französische Kunsttheorie des 17. Jahrhunderts und der absolutistische Staat : Le Brun und die ersten acht Vorlesungen an der königlichen Akademie, Berlin: Reimer, 2001Dino Heicker: Manet, ein Streit und die Geburt der modernen Malerei: ein Lesebuch zum Pariser Salon von 1865, Berlin: Parthas, 2015Stefan Lüddemann: Kunstkritik als Kommunikation. Vom Richteramt zur Evaluationsagentur, Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag, 2004Walther Müller-Jentsch: "Kunstkritik als literarische Gattung. Gesellschaftliche Bedingungen ihrer Entstehung, Entfaltung und Krise", Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 2013, 22: 539–568Alix Rule and David Levine with Mariam Ghani and Alexander Provan: International Art English, E-Book, Triple Canopy, November 2018: https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/international_art_englishWilhelm Schlink: Charles Le Brun "Ein Bild ist kein Tatsachenbericht: Le Bruns Akademierede von 1667 über Poussins 'Mannawunder'", Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1996A. O. Scott : Better Living Through Criticism. Beauty & Truth, London, 2016Hito Steyerl: “International Disco Latin.” e-flux journal. May 2013. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/45/60100/international-disco-latin/Sam Thorne: “Talking Shop.” Frieze. April 2013. https://frieze.com/article/talking-shop. »Lionello Venturi: Geschichte der Kunstkritik ; Storia della critica d'arte, München: Piper (1972)Margrit Vogt: Von Kunstworten und -werten. Die Entstehung der deutschen Kunstkritik in Periodika der Aufklärung, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2010Gilda Williams: How to write about contemporary art, London: Thames & Hudson, 2019
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This seminar in method will approach art criticism theoretically and practically. Beyond historical and conceptual reflections, the students' will get to experiment with writing art criticism. We will thus go to see exhibitions together as well. Reading texts, we'll try to understand how writers define themselves, what are their aims and implicit presuppositions. We will also compare the written texts and the works that they are about. The teacher will also share his insights a member of AICA (the international association of art critics) and a writer for Spike, Parnass, Art Newspaper, Artpress, FAZ.
The seminar will mostly be in German. However, many of the texts we discuss are published in French or English (for those in French, we’ll use the translations) and presentations may also be given in English. Texts may be written in German, English or French.