| Course Name | Fine and Applied Arts from the Ottoman Era to Contemporary Turkey |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| IAED 420 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | The course aims to introduce the history of Turkish visual culture from the earliest days of the Ottoman Empire up to the present; to make students familiar with the most important concepts, objects and figures of this history; to present a critical approach to the study of Turkish culture |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | The course will focus on 3 phases of Turkish culture. The ottoman era - from its beginning, showing various influences such as Persian Selcuk and Byzantine - up to the effective dissolution of the empire including late court artistic expressions. The Modernist period - examining the influence of internationalist styles in the 19th and 20th centuries from the development of a Turkish impressionist movement, through the republican period and up to the late formalism of the 60s and 70s. The contemporary period - examining the advent of conceptual art in Turkey, the development of contemporary art institutions and the manner in which major contemporary issues have influenced current art practice in Turkey |
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| Major Area Courses | X | |
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| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction to the class. | |
| 2 | Lecture 1. An examination of early Turkic art in Central Asia. The Seljuks of Rum | Ottoman Civilization 2. Edited by Halil Inalcik and Günsel Renda. Turks 600-1600. The book of the Exhibition The Royal Academy of Arts London 2008 |
| 3 | Lecture 2. The golden era of Ottoman culture Mimar Sinan. Iznik ceramics. Student presentations from lecture 1 | |
| 4 | Lecture 3. Opening up to european influences. The Tulip period and ottoman baroque. Students presentations from lecture 2 | The City's Pleasures: Istanbul in the 18th Century. Shirine Hamadeh. University of Washington Press.2009 |
| 5 | Lecture 4. The Turkish Courts integration into the Beaux art culture of Europe. Turkish orientalism. Turkish Art Nouveau. The development of traditional art schools and museums in the 19th century. Students presentations from lecture 3 | |
| 6 | Lecture 5. Early stirrings of modernist culture in Turkey. Turkish Impressionists and links with European movements. Slide show exam 1 | New Works New Horizons Istanbul Modern Book of the exhibition 2009. / Çağdaş Türk Sanati. Sezer Tansuğ Remzi Kitabevi 2008 |
| 7 | Lecture 6. The early republic and its cultural relationship to the ottoman past. Defining a new direction. Student presentations from lectures 4 and 5 | Submission of proposal for term research paper. |
| 8 | Lecture 7. Modernist Turkish artists and social realism. Student presentations from lecture 6 | |
| 9 | Lecture 8. Modernist Turkish artists, formalism, abstraction and postmodernism. Student presentations from lecture 7 | |
| 10 | Artist’s talk. Students presentations from lecture 8 | Draft submission of 1500 word term paper. (50% of grade) |
| 11 | Lecture 9. The development of the contemporary art institutions in Turkey. Slide show exam 2 | Unleashed: Contemporary Art from Turkey. Edited by Hossein Amirsadeghi 2009 |
| 12 | Lecture 10. Turkey and conceptual Art. Student presentations from lecture 9 | New Works New Horizons Istanbul Modern Book of the exhibition 2009 |
| 13 | Lecture 11. Contemporary art in Turkey and socio\polıtical issues. Identity gender and institutional critique. Student presentations from lecture 10 and 11 | |
| 14 | Discussion on Semester. Slide show exam 3. | Submission of 1500 word term paper. |
| 15 | Review of the semester | |
| 16 | End of the semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Books list above, power point presentations and tutorials on the website |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | http://homes.ieu.edu.tr/tkeogh/ Presentation: Students will select a series of terms related to what is discussed in the class and will prepare single slide presentations on each term. This will then be presented and discussed in the class. Homework research paper. Each student will prepare a 2000 word research paper on a subject of their choice related to the course content. / Exams: 3 slide show exams of 2 hours – students are expected to identify and write about particular Art Works. 1 final exam where students are expected to answer a general paper on subjects and issues discussed during the classes. |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 5 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | 2 | 10 |
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 15 |
| Presentation / Jury | 3 | 30 |
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 2 | 20 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 20 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 80 | |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 20 | |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 0 | ||
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | 2 | 5 | |
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 13 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 3 | 7 | |
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 2 | 9 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 10 | |
| Total | 120 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able to perform, execute and manage the various responsibilities and duties of an interior architecture and environmental design professional | |||||
| 2 | To be able to recognize, analyze and integrate within their practice the particular local and regional needs and developments of their profession | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to communicate and collaborate with other individuals and groups on a national and international level within their profession | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to develop, integrate and promote independent critical approaches for their professional practice | X | ||||
| 5 | To be able to understand the social and environmental issues and responsibilities of their profession | X | ||||
| 6 | To be able identify, assess and utilize the most up to date research, innovations, trends and technologies | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to consider the national and international standards and regulations of their field | |||||
| 8 | To be able to develop the abilities to communicate and present design ideas within visual, oral and textual formats | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to design on a national and international level | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to recognize their own strengths, and develop them within an environment | X | ||||
| 11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of interior architecture and environmental design and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language | X | ||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise | |||||
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