Conceptual Art

Objectives

Students learn the characteristics of conceptual art development. The aim is to define the conceptual framework of their own artistic practice.

Outcomes

Students are trained for conceptual thinking (in the context of contemporary art). They follow the concept of intuition, assuming that a work of art, as an intuitive and conceptually interesting game, requires a lucid grasp of abstraction, not formative pleonasm. They take conceptual work as media-unlimited (open). They assume that every work of art is based on a conceptual order of ideas.

Course content

Lectures

Protoconceptualisms. Play as an ironic approach to art. Concept as an idea, notion, project or program. Conceptual art as a self-reflexive, analytical, critical and proto-theoretical movement. Fluxus. Joseph Beuys. Minimal and post-minimal art. Conceptual art. Contexts and procedures of conceptual art. Post-conceptual art. Neo-conceptualism, simulationism, non-expressionism. Art in the age of culture. Art and curatorial practices. Artist, gallery, museum. Contextual determination of the meaning of art. Yugoslav conceptual art.

Research work

Through research work, students analyse references from the history of conceptual art and define their own aesthetic positions, i.e. they create a conceptual framework for a doctoral artistic project. They apply the results of theoretical research of conceptual art to certain areas of contemporary (digital) art.

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