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Course Name	Turkish	Modernite ve Görsel Kültür
	English	Modernity and Visual Culture
Course Code	SNT 115E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	-	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Aslıhan Erkmen Birkandan
Course Objectives		1. To discuss the modernity phenomenon. 2. To examine modernity’s effects on culture. 3. to gain the skill to interpret art not only as an aesthetic value but also as a cultural asset.
Course Description		Introduction to the development of Western art in the modern age. Discussion of the modernity concept. Impact of the Industrial Revolution on the visual culture and its effects on science, technology, art, politics, economy, etc. Determining the situation in Türkiye. Analyzing the development of Western culture in Turkish art and culture. The criticism of modernity.
Course Outcomes		Students will be able to: I. evaluate an artwork as an aesthetic and cultural object, II. comprehend modernity phenomenon through an artwork, III. learning the active role of cultural change in the form and meaning of art, IV. read the deconstruction of modernity in the twentieth century, V. comprehend contemporary issues through their formation process, VI. analyze the reflections of all these developments in Türkiye and Turkish art.
Pre-requisite(s)		None
Required Facilities
Other
Textbook		- (TR) Antmen, Ahu, 20. Yüzyıl Batı Sanatında Akımlar, Sel Yayınları, İstanbul, 2008. - Arnason, H. H. and Elizabeth C. Mansfield, History of Modern Art (6th Revised Edition), 2010. - Berman, Marshall, All That is Solid Melts into Air, Penguin, 1988. - Chipp, Herschel B., Theories of Modern Art-A Source Book by Artists and Critics, London: University of California Press, 1992. - Gombrich, E.H., Story of Art, Phaidon, 2022. - (TR) İpşiroğlu, Nazan-İpşiroğlu Mazhar, Sanatta Devrim, Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul, 1991. - Janson, H. W., History of Art, Harry N. Abrams Inc. New York, 1991. - Kromm, Jane ve Benforado, Susan (ed.), A History of Visual Culture: Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century, Bakewell, Oxford, New York, 2010. - Schapiro, M., Modern Art, George Brazilier, New York, 2011. - Smith, Bernard, Modernism’s History, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998.
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