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This course is intended to help students develop critical thinking skills that will help them support theme-based teaching practises and gain confidence in incorporating modern and contemporary art into interdisciplinary lesson plans. The course will help you think creatively about links to your curriculum and ways to tap into students' knowledge and life experience by addressing themes and questions that arise in relation to modern and contemporary art.
Places & Spaces, Art & Identity, Transforming Everyday Objects, and Art & Society are four themes that educators at The Museum of Modern Art frequently use in their teaching. You will investigate the content and context of works of art in the MoMA collection through videos, slideshows, and a variety of resources, readings, and activities.
Syllabus :
1. Module 1: Introduction to Art & Ideas: Teaching with Themes
- Introduction to Art & Ideas
- Introduction to Teaching with Themes
2. Module 2: Places & Spaces
- Places & Spaces
- Teaching with Themes: Places & Spaces
- Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. 1889
- Piet Mondrian. Broadway Boogie Woogie. 1942–43
- Gordon Matta-Clark. Bingo. 1974
- Andrew Wyeth. Christina's World. 1948
- Salvador Dalí. The Persistence of Memory. 1931
- Claude Monet. Water Lilies. 1914–26
- Rachel Whiteread. Water Tower. 1998
- Edward Hopper. House By the Railroad. 1925
- Louis I. Kahn. Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Study for National Assembly Building). 1962–83
3. Module 3: Art & Identity
- Art & Identity
- Teaching with Themes: Art & Identity
- Frida Kahlo. Self-Portait with Cropped Hair. 1940
- Andy Warhol. Gold Marilyn Monroe. 1962
- Pablo Picasso. Girl Before a Mirror. 1932
- Marc Chagall. I and the Village. 1911
- Henri Matisse. The Red Studio. 1911
- Rineke Dijkstra. Almerisa series. 1994–2008
4. Module 4: Transforming Everyday Objects
- Transforming Everyday Objects
- Teaching With Themes: Transforming Everyday Objects
- Marcel Duchamp. Bicycle Wheel. 1913
- Robert Rauschenberg. Bed. 1955
- Meret Oppenheim. Object. 1936
- Décolletage Plastique Design Team. Bic Cristal® Ballpoint pen. 1950
- Louise Nevelson. Sky Cathedral. 1958
- Mike Kelley. Untitled. 1990
- Jessica Rosenkrantz, Jesse Louis-Rosenberg. Kinematics Dress. 2013
- Doris Salcedo. Atrabilious. 1992–93
5. Module 5: Art & Society
- Art & Society
- Teaching with Themes: Art & Society
- Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother. 1936
- Jacob Lawrence. Migration Series. 1940–41
- Martha Rosler. House Beautiful (Bringing the War Home). 1967-72
- Jasper Johns. Flag. 1954-55
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Street Dresden. 1908
- Shahzia Sikander. Candied. 2003
- Faith Ringgold. American People Series #20: Die. 1967
