VH1S027 - Art Practice 1.1 Deconstruct 15 Mar 2017 - 01 Sep 2026 | Version 1

Associated Module Information

Module Code: VH1S027
Module Title: Art Practice 1.1 Deconstruct
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Music and Drama
Faculty Sub Group: Drama
Module Leader: Christopher Nurse
Module Team:
First Intended Intake: SEP 2017 Final Year of Intake:
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 20 Credit Level: 4
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes:
HECOS Code Weighting:

Document Version Information

Version 1
Valid From 15 Mar 2017
Valid To 01 Sep 2026

Module Aims

To teach good practice in health and safety and ethical practice

To teach skills of perception and interpretative approaches

To develop confidence, initiative and imaginative approaches to media and processes

To enable the application of these skills and approaches to other areas of art practice

To enable the generation of ideas, concepts, proposals and solutions in response to set briefs

To enable you to form a critical response to the work and significance of other practitioners

Content Summary

The module includes external visits to museums and galleries, which will directly inform the research and critical understanding of your practice.

You will work in a medium of your choice in response to a set project brief, in which you will explore and develop skills in the application of a range of processes and materials and in forms and methods of study.

You will be expected to develop visual languages with which to investigate, analyse, interpret and articulate your responses to a variety of subject matter. Visual metaphor, transposition, appropriation, narrative, material equivalence and viewpoints will be introduced as means to generate ideas.

You will be asked to question the value of conventional and unconventional approaches to Painting, Ceramics, Drawing, Digital or 3d Mixed Media and the context of their display.

Visual journals will be used for primary sources, observational research and concept development and will form part of the summative assessment of the module. Blogging will be used to evaluate your creative process and to reference secondary sources to engender openness to the work of other artists and approaches. Blogging will be formatively assessed within this module and will contribute to the summative assessment of Art Practice 1.2 Research.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 4
Seminar 2
Tutorial 1
Demonstration 1
Practical classes and workshops 16
Supervised time in studio/workshop 24
External visits 18
Independent Study 80
Directed Study 54
Total Hours Selected 200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Enhance and develop understanding of the principles, procedures, methods, materials and media particularly in their relation to the development of individual visual language .
LO2 Inform, develop and evaluate studio practice through appropriate primary and secondary research.

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Practical Coursework 2 (Asynch) Evaluative visual journals completed in response to project 0 N/A 25 No 40
Asynchronous Assessment Practical Coursework 1 (Asynch) 2D/3D responses completed in response to project 0 N/A 75 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Practical Coursework 2 (Asynch)
Practical Coursework 1 (Asynch)

Reading List

Buskirk, M. (2005) The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art. MIT Press

Clarke, M. (2010) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. 2nd edition. OUP.

Dezeuze, A (2010) The ‘Do-it-Yourself’ Artwork: Participation from Fluxus to New Media. Manchester University Press.

Flood, R. and Hoptman, L. (2012) Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st century. Phaidon.

Gottsegen, M. (2006) The Painters Handbook. Watson Guptill.

Hudek, A. (2015) The Object. MIT & Whitechapel.

Iversen, M. (2010) Chance. MIT & Whitechapel.

Lange-Berndt, P. (2015) Materiality. MIT & Whitechapel.

Lind, M. (2013) Abstraction. MIT & Whitechapel.

Lucie Smith, E. (2001) Movements in Art Since 1945. Thames & Hudson.

Maizels, J. (1996) Raw Creation. Phaidon.

Peterson, S. (2000) Contemporary Ceramics. Lawrence King.

Peterson, S. (2012) The Craft and Art of Clay. 5th edition. Lawrence King.

Schwartz, J. S. (2008) Confrontation Ceramics. A & C Black

Singleton, K. (2016) Ceramics: Contemporary Artists Working in Clay. Chronicle.

Journals:
• Artists Newsletter
• Art Monthly
• Art Review
• Ceramic Review
• Ceramics International
• Crafts
• Creative Review
• Flash Artonline.com
• Icon
• Modern Painters
• Raw Art

Websites:
• http://arthistoryresources.net/ARTHLinks.html – Access to journals, websites, databases, information for art
• http://search.it.online.fr/covers/
• International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology
• Tate Gallery
• The British Museum
• Victoria and Albert Museum
• National Gallery
• MOMA
• The Met
• Saatchi
• Arts Council of Wales
• Crafts Council

LRC website databases:
• OPAC
• Subject Guidelines
• Search the Internet
• Current Awareness
• BoB (Box of Broadcasts)
• e books
• e newspapers
• Google scholar
• AHRC