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080060 UE Site-specificity in sculpture and installation art since 1965: (2008W)

Minimal Art, Land Art, Process Art, institutional critique

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 30 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 06.10. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Monday 13.10. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Monday 20.10. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Monday 27.10. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Monday 03.11. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Monday 10.11. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Monday 17.11. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Monday 24.11. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Monday 01.12. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Monday 15.12. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Monday 12.01. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Monday 19.01. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Monday 26.01. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The course focuses on the question of site- and context-specificity of sculpture and installation art which arose as a central problem of Minimal Art since1965. The importance of the art object, its composition, as well as its claim of originality are now devaluated in favour of an emphasis on the relation of the object to its surrounding space, to the spectator and to the exhibition situation. With Land Art and Process Art in the late 1960s and early 1970s the understanding of site-specificity is on the one hand expanded into the natural and urban environment distant from galleries and museums, and on the other hand newly defined in relation to sculpture's materiality. At the same time projects and large exhibitions dedicated to sculpture in public spaces are organised frequently and establish an independent task. In the 1970s and 1980s institutional critique finally integrates the socio-economical and institutional conditions of the production, presentation and reception of art, while extending the question of site to the question of context.
Among others the course will cover the following artists: Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, James Turrell, Gordon Matta-Clark, Richard Serra, Michael Asher, Daniel Buren and Hans Haacke.

Assessment and permitted materials

The evaluation of the students will result according to their participation to the discussions of texts, which will have to be prepared for each unit, as well as to one short presentation and three short essays on the discussed problems.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The students are supposed to elaborate the central aspects of Minimal Art, Land Art, Process Art and institutional critique. The topic of site-specificity will represent the central question of the course in order to find interrelations and coherences between the different art movements and artist's positions which will be discussed. In terms of a continuous working process during the semester a central aim of the course is the training of the apprehension and critical analysis when reading theoretical texts.

Examination topics

For the preparation for each unit of the course the participants will have to read a text which will be discussed in the group. Focused short presentations and short essays will help to abstract, comprehend and reflect the read contents.

Reading list

Association in the course directory

F 160, F 250

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