Syllabus:

Writing about Contemporary Art, 7.5 credits

Swedish name: Att skriva om samtida konst

This syllabus is valid: 2022-08-29 valid to 2023-06-04 (newer version of the syllabus exists)

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Course code: 1KB002

Credit points: 7.5

Education level: First cycle

Main Field of Study and progress level: Art History and Visual Studies: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements

Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail

Responsible department: Department of Culture and Media Studies

Revised by: Head of Department of Culture and Media Studies, 2022-03-01

Required Knowledge

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Literature

Valid from: 2022 week 35

Karlholm Dan
Kontemporalism : om samtidskonstens historia och framtid
Stockholm : Axl Books : 2014 : 359 s. :
ISBN: 9789186883287
Mandatory
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Stallabrass Julian
Contemporary art : a very short introduction
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2006 : 154 s. :
ISBN: 9780192806468 (hft.)
Mandatory
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The state of art criticism
Elkins James, Newman Michael
New York : Routledge : 2008 : x, 410 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-415-97787-6
Mandatory
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Tillberg Margareta
Pressures on art criticism : what is an independent art critic today?
Lund : The Swedish Art Critics Association Press : cop. 2009 : 146 s. :
ISBN: 9789163349607
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Deepwell Katy
Art Criticism and the State of Feminist Art Criticism
Arts (Basel), 2020, Vol.9 (1), p.28 : 2020 :
https://search.ub.umu.se/permalink/46UMEA_INST/1l5esu/cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_7479e999a55f42a8a43f10db4eb75172
Mandatory

The state of art criticism
Elkins James, Newman Michael
New York : Routledge : 2008 : x, 410 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-415-97787-6
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Elkins James
How To Look at Mondrian?
Huffington Post Blog : 2017 :
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/post_1036_b_756669
Mandatory

Serrell Beverly.
Exhibit labels : an interpretive approach
2. ed. : Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield : 2015 : XI, 363 S. :
Inhaltsverzeichnis
ISBN: 9781442249028
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Thompson Susannah
The Dress of Thought : Form and style in contemporary art writing
Journal of Writing in Creative Practice : 2017 :
https://search.ub.umu.se/permalink/46UMEA_INST/1l5esu/scopus2-s2.0-85041696173
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Williams Gilda
How to write about contemporary art
London : Thames & Hudson : 2014 : 264 s. :
ISBN: 9780500291573
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Dalström Tomas
Bäst i text : läseboken : skrivboken
3. uppl. : Ystad : Meetings International Publishing : 2014 : 57, 198 s. :

Konsten att skriva en fotnot : vetenskaplig formalia för humanister
Götlind Anna, Linnarsson Magnus
1. uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur : 2015 : 106 s. :
ISBN: 9789144103365
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Mattson Anki
Bästa språktipsen
1. uppl. : Stockholm : Prodicta : [2012] : 127 s. :
ISBN: 978-91-979932-1-0
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