FACULTY OF FINE ARTS AND DESIGN

Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design

IAED 420 | Course Introduction and Application Information

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
IAED 420
Fall/Spring
3
0
3
4

Prerequisites
None
Course Language
English
Course Type
Elective
Course Level
First Cycle
Mode of Delivery Online
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course Discussion
Case Study
Q&A
Lecture / Presentation
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
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;
  • recognize the visual culture of Turkey
  • recognize the complex layers of meaning and historical particularity evident in the existing historic artifacts
  • evaluate significant artifacts and art movements, even into the contemporary era, that form the cultural heritage of Turkey
  • develop their own ideas related to historic Turkish cultural movements within a broader regional and international context
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

 



Course Category

Core Courses
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
X
Media and Management Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Related Preparation
1 Introduction to the class. Film viewing None
2 Lecture 1. An examination of early Turkic art in Central Asia. The Seljuks of Rum. The golden era of Ottoman culture Mimar Sinan. Iznik ceramics. 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 ISBN: 978-903973-56-1 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 ISBN: 978-903973-56-1
3 Lecture 2. Opening up to European influences. The Tulip period and Ottoman baroque. The City's Pleasures: Istanbul in the 18th Century. Shirine Hamadeh. University of Washington Press. 2009 ISBN: 9780295986678 0295986670
4 Lecture 3. 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. SUBMIT 1 NUMBER FILM / DOCUMENTARY REVIEW (QUIZZES)
5 Lecture 4. Early stirrings of modernist culture in Turkey. Turkish Impressionists and links with European movements. The early republic and its cultural relationship to the Ottoman past. Defining a new direction. SUBMIT 1 NUMBER FILM / DOCUMENTARY REVIEW (QUIZZES)
6 STUDENT SLIDE EXAMINATION 01 (MIDTERM), 1 hour
7 Lecture 5. Modernist Turkish artists and social realism. New Works New Horizons Istanbul Modern Museum Book of the exhibition 2009 Çağdaş Türk Sanati. Sezer Tansuğ Remzi Kitabevi 2008 ISBN: 978-975-6167-37-3
8 Lecture 6. Modernist Turkish artists, formalism, abstraction and postmodernism.
9 STUDENT PRESENTATIONS 01
10 STUDENT SLIDE EXAMINATION 02 (MIDTERM), 1 hour
11 Lecture 7. The development of the contemporary art institutions in Turkey. SUBMIT 1 NUMBER FILM / DOCUMENTARY REVIEW (QUIZZES) Unleashed: Contemporary Art from Turkey. Edited by Hossein Amirsadeghi 2009 ISBN: 978-0-500-97702-6 New Works New Horizons Istanbul Modern Museum Book of the exhibition 2009 Çağdaş Türk Sanati. Sezer Tansuğ Remzi Kitabevi 2008 ISBN: 978-975-6167-37-3
12 Lecture 8. Turkey and conceptual Art.
13 Lecture 9. Contemporary art in Turkey and socio\polıtical issues. Identity gender and institutional critique. SUBMIT 1 NUMBER FILM / DOCUMENTARY REVIEW (QUIZZES)
14 STUDENTS PRESENTATIONS 02 Artists’s talk
15 Review of the semester
16 FINAL EXAM (2 PARTS – SLIDE EXAM 03 AND GENERAL EXAM) (written, 2 hours)

 

Course Notes/Textbooks Books list above, power point presentations and tutorials on the website
Suggested Readings/Materials

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 ISBN: 978-903973-56-1

Unleashed: Contemporary Art from Turkey. Edited by Hossein Amirsadeghi 2009 ISBN: 978-0-500-97702-6

 

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
1
5
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
2
10
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
1
15
Presentation / Jury
Project
2
10
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm
2
30
Final Exam
1
30
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
8
70
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
1
30
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
Theoretical Course Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
3
48
Laboratory / Application Hours
(Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)
16
0
Study Hours Out of Class
0
Field Work
0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
2
7
14
Portfolio
0
Homework / Assignments
1
8
8
Presentation / Jury
7
0
Project
2
11
22
Seminar / Workshop
0
Oral Exam
0
Midterms
2
9
18
Final Exam
1
10
10
    Total
120

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
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

3

To be able to communicate and collaborate with other individuals and groups on a national and international level within their profession

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

6

To be able identify, assess and utilize the most up to date research, innovations, trends and technologies

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

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

12

To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently

X
13

To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise

X

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest

 


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