HA3C9-30 Visual Art and Poetry
Introductory description
This module explores the relationships between poetry and visual art in the USA in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Module aims
More than simply subject matter and stylistic movements, the module will examine fundamental and theoretical connections between poetry and visual art, exploring such matters as ways of making (e.g. collage), particular forms (e.g., the book, the mise-en-page), collaborative endeavours, and, in the post-war world, the use of poetry as a visual form and vice versa. The themes of ekphrasis and description will run through the module, asking students to consider and evaluate the ways in which poetic language describes objects and visual experience, and how these relate to other art-historical rhetorics.
Outline syllabus
This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.
Ekphrasis
Visual Poetry
Modernism: Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams
New York c. 1960: Frank O'Hara and Ted Berrigan
Assemblage
The Film-Poem
Vito Acconci, Hannah Weiner and 0-9
Concrete Poetry
Minimalist Art and Poetry
Hand and Machine: Larry Eigner, Steve McCaffery, Cy Twombly, Robert Grenier
Uncreative Writing and Conceptual Art
Learning outcomes
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate sophisticated knowledge of American artistic and poetic avant-gardes.
- Analyse and critically appraise the relationship between the visual and the poetic in the 20th and 21st centuries.
- Examine and critically evaluate modern and contemporary poetry.
- Formulate complex ideas about art and poetry for different audiences and contexts.
Indicative reading list
Reading lists can be found in Talis
Specific reading list for the module
Subject specific skills
- Demonstrate a grasp of the history and theory of relations between visual art and poetry
- Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the works studied and their contexts
- Deploy these ideas critically in relation to other forms of art and culture
- sophisticated visual and textual analysis
- critical analysis of cultural artefacts in relation to historical and theoretical frameworks
Transferable skills
- initiate and sustain group discussion through intelligent questioning and debate at an appropriate level
- ability to undertake research and to write up the results in the form of a well-structured argument at an appropriate level
- familiarity with essential ICT skills
- ability to collaborate effectively with others
- show understanding of diverse viewpoints
- ability to find, select, organize and synthesize evidence
- ability to formulate a sustained argument
- think conceptually and independently at an appropriate level
- bibliographical skills at an appropriate level
Study time
| Type | Required |
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| Seminars | 9 sessions of 3 hours (9%) |
| Project supervision | 1 session of 2 hours (1%) |
| Practical classes | 2 sessions of 2 hours (1%) |
| Private study | 267 hours (89%) |
| Total | 300 hours |
Private study description
Required and recommended for seminar presentation and workshops, research for written assessments and revision for examinations.
Costs
No further costs have been identified for this module.
You do not need to pass all assessment components to pass the module.
Assessment group D1
| Weighting | Study time | Eligible for self-certification | |
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Assessment component |
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| Portfolio | 60% | No | |
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4000 word portfolio |
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Reassessment component is the same |
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Assessment component |
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| Centrally-timetabled examination (Online) | 40% | No | |
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Centrally timetabled via WAS ~Platforms - WAS
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Reassessment component is the same |
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Feedback on assessment
Written feedback and dedication feedback tutorials
Pre-requisites
n/a
Courses
This module is Option list A for:
- Year 3 of UHAA-V401 Undergraduate History of Art
This module is Option list B for:
- Year 1 of THAA-V4P3 History of Art (Diploma)
This module is Option list D for:
- Year 1 of THAA-V4P3 History of Art (Diploma)
This module is Option list F for:
- Year 1 of UHAA-V41P Undergraduate History of Art