SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
HISTORY OF ART & DESIGN
SCHOOL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
BA Hons History of Art, Design and Film
Darcy
White and Rose Cooper
Teaching schedule p.
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Key texts p.
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Rationale,
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Learning outcomes p.
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Learning and Teaching Strategy and Methods p.
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Assessment p.
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10
2.5 hrs
contact per week
Thursday
Lecture 9.00 to 10.00 G3
Seminar 10.00 to 11.30 G3
1. Feb. 6th. Introduction to teaching
schedule and assessment
Terminology/
Definitions. Framing as presentation
and
preparatory reading
2. Feb.13th. View Inuit collection,
Sheffield Museum, Western Park
Research
programme. Discussions of set texts
3. Feb. 20th. L: Transculturation: the
dynamics of cultural exchange and resistance
S:
Discussion of key texts ~ Research in progress
4. Feb. 27th. L: Cultural representation,
appropriation and resistance
S:
Discussion of key texts ~ Research in progress
5. March 6th. L: Africa: the lost
continent?
S:
Discussion of key texts ~ research in progress
6. March 13th. Study Visit
Royal
Academy ~ Aztecs: a civilisation carved in blood and stone
British
Museum ~ Study session 'Exhibiting the Aztecs'
7. March 20th. L: Peripheral peoples: the
cultures of South America
S:
Discussion of key texts ~ research in progress
8. March 27th. Seminar presentations
9. April 3rd. L: The practices of
Anthropology and ethnography
S:
Discussion of key texts ~ research in progress
10. April 10th. Study Visit ~ Cartwright
Hall, South Asian Collection
11. May 1st. L: Contemporary Cultural
practice
S:
Discussion of key texts ~ research in progress
12. May 8th. L: Popular culture on the
periphery
S:
Discussion of key texts ~ research in progress
Deadline
for assignment submission
13. May 15th.)
14. May 22nd.> Assessment
15. May 29th.)
(For seminar discussion and preparation for study visits)
Week 1 - Preparatory texts
Danto, A. ‘Artefact and Art’ in ART/ARTEFACT African Art in Anthropology Collections: Exhibition
Catalogue (NY: Centre for African Art, 1988)
Graburn, N.H.H. Ethnic
and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World (University of
California Press, 1976)
Collins, HB et al. The Far North: 2000 years of American Eskimo and Indian Art (Indiana University Press, 1977)
Damas, D. Handbook of
North American Indians: Vol. 5 Arctic (Smithsonian Institute Press, 1984)
Fitzhugh, W.W. and
Kaplan, S.A. Inua: Spirit World of the
Bering Sea Eskimo (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982)
Muller-Wille L. et al Consequences
of Economic Change in Circumpolar Regions (Boreal Institute, 1978),
selected sections
Week 3
Transculturation - seminar reading
Clifford, J. Writing
Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (University of California Press (1986)
Danto, A. ‘Artefact and Art’ in ART/ARTEFACT African Art in Anthropology Collections: Exhibition
Catalogue (NY: Centre for African Art, 1988)
Gell, A. ‘Vogel’s Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as
Traps’ in Journal of Material Culture,
(1996)
Balogun, O. 'Traditional Arts and Cultural Developments in
Africa' in Cultures no. 2 1975
Graburn, N.H.H. Ethnic
and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World (University of
California Press, 1976)
Mirzoeff, N. 'Transculture: From Kongo to Congo' in An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999)
Nicodemus, E., and Romare, K. 'Africa, Art and the Big
Commentary' in Third Text 41 Winter
1997-8
Fusco, C. English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural
Fusion in the Americas (1995)
Coote, Shelton, A. Anthropology,
Art and Aesthetics (Clarendon Press, 1992)
Greenhalgh, M. and
Megaw, J.V.S. Art in Society (London:
Duckworth, 1978)
Web
site http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/cultural/anthropology/theories.html
Jamal, O. 'E.B. Havell: The Art and politics of Indianness'
in Third Text summer 1997
Ratnam, N. “‘I am that Other that you want me to be’: the
Work of Anish Kapoor in 1980s Britain.”
in The Sculpture Journal v
(2001), London, Public Monuments and
Sculpture Association
Said, E. Culture and Imperialism (Chatto
& Windus, 1993)
Hylton, R. ‘Yinka Shonebare: Dressing Down’ in Third Text, Spring 1999.
Jelinek, A. ‘Working within and against Tate Modernism’ in Third Text 57, Winter 2001-2
Lok, S.P.S. ‘Pidgin: Interupted Transmission’ in Third Text, Volume 16, no.2, June 2002
Ratnam, N. “‘I am
that Other that you want me to be’: the Work of Anish Kapoor in 1980s
Britain.” in The Sculpture Journal v (2001), London, Public Monuments and
Sculpture Association
Allen, T.and Skelton,T. Culture
and Global Change (Routledge, 1999)
Unesco World Culture
Report; Cultural diversity, conflict and pluralism. (Unesco publishing,
2000).
The
aims of this module are to consider the relationship of dominant visual culture
to visual arts from outside the 'European' tradition. The module will address
contemporary practice within the visual arts and the historic reception of
'non-Western' visual culture within the context of the politics of cultural
representation and cultural resistance. Visual culture will be considered as a
dynamic, fluid force involving acquisition but also loss, transculturation. The
module will consider the signifying practices employed in the institutional
appropriation of cultural difference as well as the concept of reciprocal
cultural exchange and fusion.
INDICATIVE CONTENTS
Binary
Opposites and the representation of visual culture from outside the 'European'
tradition
The
implications of 'binary opposition' on the acquisition, reception and
representation and classification of artefacts from 'non- Western' cultures and
the establishment of institutional expectations and classificatory systems.
Transculturation
Historic
examples of cultural appropriation, fusion and resistance. Here a range of
examples will be presented in case studies. It is anticipated local and
national collections will be importance sources including: The Pitt-Rivers
Museum, PRASADA centre, Leicester, the British Museum, Bradford Gallery, the
Mappin and Graves Galleries.
Contemporary
Practices
The
practice of key cultural producers whose work engages with issues revolving
around the history, experience and practice of transculturation will be studied.
SUMMARY OF AIMS
·
To provide a critical
introduction to the process of transculturation, the reception, appropriation
and resistance to 'other' visual cultures.
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To examine through
case studies examples of cultural representation, appropriation and resistance.
·
To promote awareness
of institutional practice in relation to 'non Western' visual cultures.
·
To foster openness
and the ability to identify the merits of unfamiliar cultural artefacts or
arguments and the merits or shortcomings of familiar ones.
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To promote
understanding and use of appropriate critical language and theory.
ANTICIPATED
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The student will be:
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familiar with the
process of transculturation, the reception, appropriation and resistance to
'other' visual cultures
·
aware of examples of
cultural representation, appropriation and resistance
·
aware of
institutional practice in relation to 'non Western' visual cultures
·
receptive to new
arguments or cultural artefacts and able to assess the merits or shortcomings
of familiar ones
·
competent in the use
of appropriate critical language and theory.
LEARNING AND TEACHING STRATEGY AND METHODS, INCLUDING
RESOURCES
Key theories, methodologies and concepts will be introduced
through weekly lectures, with supporting visual material. Exhibition, site and
archive study visits will play an important role in the teaching, local and
national collections and displays will be drawn upon.*
Student centred seminars will provide the opportunity for
discussion, clarification and debate drawing on lecture content, visual
references and case studies. Seminars will be supported by guided reading and
visual analysis.
The student will be expected to undertake directed
independent learning centred upon a text and image based project portfolio
which will provide an important source for the evaluation of information and
examples.
Student learning will be supported by group and individual
tutorials.
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ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK STRATEGY AND METHODS
A variety of methods will be used to
ensure the aims and outcomes are reflected
across the assessment components.
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Component |
Content |
Weighting |
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Journal |
A
journal drawing on artefacts,
displays and theory
to encourage critical analysis
and reflection |
30% |
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Seminar |
A
group seminar to encourage research, analysis and evaluation |
30% |
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1,500
word written assignment |
A
critical analysis of one of the issues covered in the teaching programme |
40% |
SPECIFIC ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Student work will be judged on:
·
the identification of
the processes and strategies of transculturation; of reception, appropriation,
fusion and resistance
·
the quality of
openness, reflection and evaluation
·
the quality of
application of appropriate theory in critical analysis.
·
the identification of
institutional forces and their impact.
·
the acknowledgement
of the contingency of knowledge
·
the effectiveness of
independent study in the extension and development of the taught curriculum
·
the standard of
written work, in relation to the academic convention.
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GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Armes,
R. Third World Film Making and the West (1987)
Allen, T.and Skelton,T. Culture
and Global Change (Routledge, 1999)
Bal, M. ‘Reading Art?’ in Pollock, G. Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts (Routledge, 1996)
Balogun,
O 'Traditional Arts and Cultural Developments in Africa' in Cultures No. 2 (1975)
Butcher, M. ‘Eel-traps without Eels' in Journal of Design History Vol.10 No. 4, 1997, Design History Society
Clifford, J. Writing
Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (University of California
Press, 1986)
Clifford,
J. 'On Collecting Art and Culture' in Out
There: Marginalisation and Contemporary Culture (1990)
Coote, Shelton, A. Anthropology,
Art and Aesthetics (Clarendon Press, 1992)
Danto, A. ‘Artefact and Art’ in ART/ARTEFACT African Art in Anthropology Collections: Exhibition
Catalogue (NY: Centre for African Art, 1988)
Dorfman,
A and Mattelart, A, How to Read Donald
Duck: Imperialist Ideology
in the Disney Comic (1975)
Fusco,
C. English is Broken Here: Notes on
Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995)
Gell, A. ‘Vogel’s Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps’
in Journal of Material Culture,
(1996)
Gell, A. Art and Agency; An Anthropological Theory
(Clarendon Press, 1998)
Greenhalgh, M. and
Megaw, J.V.S. Art in Society (London:
Duckworth, 1978)
Hylton, R. ‘Yinka Shonebare: Dressing Down’ in Third Text, Spring 1999.
Jameson, F. and Miyoshi, M. The Cultures of Globalisation (1998)
Jelinek, A. ‘Working within and against Tate Modernism’ in Third Text 57, Winter 2001-2
Johnson, V. ‘Especially Good Aboriginal Art’ in Third Text 56, Autumn 2001.
Kamrava, M. Cultural
Politics in the Third World (UCL Press. 1999)
Karp and Lavine, S.D. Exhibiting
Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display (Smithsonian
Institute, 1999)
Lippard,
L Mixed
Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural Age (1990)
Lok, S. P.S. ‘Pidgin: Interupted Transmission’ in Third Text, Volume 16, no.2, June 2002
Lutz, C.A. and Collins, J.L. Reading National Geographic (University of Chicago Press, 1993)
Mauss, M. ‘Essai
sur le don’ in Sociologie et Anthropolgie
(Presses Universitaires de France, 1950)
Mirzoeff,
N ' Transculture: from Kongo to Congo' in
An Introduction to Visual Culture ( 1999)
Mirzoeff, N. Diaspora
and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews (London, Routledge, 2000)
Ratnam, N. “‘I am
that Other that you want me to be’: the Work of Anish Kapoor in 1980s
Said, E. Orientalism (Penguin,
1995)
Said, E. Culture and Imperialism (Chatto
& Windus, 1993)
Smith, C. and Ward, G.K. Indigenous
Cultures in an Interconnected World (Allen and Unwin, 2000)
Steiner,
C.B. African Art in Transit (1994)
Simpson,
M.G. Making Representations: Museums in
the Post-Colonial Age (2001)
Sulter M. Zabat
(1989, Hebden Bridge, Urban Fox Press, limited edition)
Collins, HB et al. The Far North: 2000 years of American Eskimo and Indian Art (Indiana University Press, 1977)
Damas, D. Handbook of
North American Indians: Vol. 5 Arctic (Smithsonian Institute Press, 1984)
Fitzhugh, W.W. and
Kaplan, S.A. Inua: Spirit World of the
Bering Sea Eskimo (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982)
Graburn, N.H.H. ‘The Eskimos and Airport Art’ in Transaction
4
(1967) pp. 28-33
Graburn, N.H.H. ‘A Preliminary Analysis of Eskimo Art and
Symbolism’ in Proceedings of the
International Congress of Americanists (Rome 1974) pp 165-70
Graburn, N.H.H. Ethnic
and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World (University of
California Press, 1976)
Graburn, N.H.H. ‘Inuit Art and the Expression of Eskimo
Identity’ in American review of Canadian
Studies Vol. 17 no. 1 (1987) pp 47 – 66
Hall, M.C. and Johnson, M.E. Polar Tourism: tourism in the arctic and Antarctic regions (Wiley, 1995)
Innuit Gallery Early
Art and Artefacts of the Eskimo (Innuit Gallery, 1975)
King, J.C.H. Portrait
Masks from the North West Coast of America (Thames and Hudson (1979)
King, J.C.H. and Lidchi, H. Imaging the Arctic (British Museum, 1998)
Kleivan, H. The Eskimos of Northeast Labrador: A History of Eskimo-White Relations, 1771 to 1955 (Oslo: Norsk Polarinstitutt, 1966)
Leroux, O. et al Inuit Women Artists: Voices from Cape Dorset
(G&B Arts International, 1994)
Muller-Wille, L. et al Consequences
of Economic Change in Circumpolar Regions
(Boreal Institute, 1978)
Pearce, S.M. Eskimo
Carving (Shire Publications, 1985)
Ray, D.J. Eskimo
Masks: Art and Ceremony (University of Washington Press, 1975)
Ray, D.J. Eskimo Art:
Tradition and Innovation in North Alaska (University of Washington Press,
1977)
Richie, C.I.A. The
Eskimo and His Art (Academy Editions, 1975)
Svensson, T.G. ‘Ethnic
Art in the Northern Fourth World’ in Etudes
/ Inuit / Studies (Quebec, 1995)
There are many internet sites on the Inuit. Many are run by
commercial galleries selling Inuit art
and artefacts on-line. Some contain background information on the Inuit and
their culture, for example http://inuitgallery.com/home.html the site of the commercial Bayat Gallery which sells Inuit art as well as African
Masks and Chineses scuptures on-line. The site provides a useful history of
Inuit culture as well as links to other sites. Other sites are run by official
organisations, academic institutions and by Inuit or aboriginal groups.
For our research we found the following sites useful:
http://www.oneworldmagazine.org/seek/nanook/nanostry.htm
A site on Robert
Flaherty’s “Nanook of the North”’ by motion picture historian and producer
Alain Silver. The site includes a bibliography on Flaherty, a brief description
of the film and of Flaherty's work, the availability of the 1972 film
reconstruction of 'Nanook', critical revisions of the film and details of the 1994 French dramatisation of the making
of 'Nanook'.
The site is linked to One World Magazine.
http://www.british-museum.ac.uk/world/americas/americas.html
The official site of the British Museum details collections
of historic and contemporary artefacts from North, Central and South America.
The North America section covers the museum's collections of Native artefacts,
colonial and post Independence objects influenced by Europe (including graphics
and money), as well as modern applied arts. The Latin America section details
Pre Hispanic cultures, money, science and conservation. Both North and Latin
America pages link to the British Museum's children's web site 'Compass'
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ch/art/index_e.html
The official Indian and Northern Affairs, Canada site
presents information on Indian and Inuit art. It is also a source of
information for Indian and Inuit peoples and details the Northern Affairs
Programme, Employment, Education, Other Programmes and Services, Sustainable
Development and The Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Businesses. The site
also contains information about First Nation treaties signed with British and
later Canadian governments before and after 1867 which provided for certain
rights and payments, a very useful source of information.
http://www.conexus.si.edu/yupik
This excellent site of the National Museum of the American
Indian is part of the Smithsonian Institute web site. Named Conexus it presents the work, practice
and beliefs of Native American peoples on several well illustrated pages. Links
are provided to other pages that present the work of practitioners featured in
contemporary exhibitions, the work of visiting scholars and illustrated
histories and legends of the American people.
http://www.mcmichael.com/inuit.htm
This is the site of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection
which consists of a permanent collection dating from 1945 supplemented by a long term loan collection
of some 100,000 drawings, prints and sculpture from the West Baffin Eskimo
Co-operative Ltd. in Cape Dorset. The site contains information on Canadian
art, current exhibitions, public programmes, visits and tours, shopping etc. at
the McMichael, and a bibliography of further readings on Inuit art.
The site of the Inuit Art Foundation, a non profit
organisation, the site is owned and operated by Inuit artists. The site
provides information on the artists; interviews, profiles, news and reviews and
runs an on-line shop the proceeds of which support Inuit artists. It also
provides details of publications including IAQ, Inuit Art Quarterly.
http://www.delweb.com/nfmuseum/notes
This is the web site of the Newfoundland Museum. The site
contains notes on the museum's collections including Inuit artefacts. A short,
illustrated article by Brenda Clarke on the Inuit in Labrador is accompanied by
suggestions for further reading.