Arts and Society

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to the online tasks
   1. Saving your answers
2. What is art? What is society?
3. Semiotics, Part I-Signs, signifiers and signifieds
4. Semiotics, Part II- Simulations and simulacra
5. Semiotics, Part III-The gaze, the nude and women's bodies
6. Semiotics, Part IV-Images, modernism and postmodernism
7. Capitalism, Marxism and art, oh my! Part I-Moving with Marx
8. Capitalism, Marxism and art, oh my! Part II-Branding
9. Bodies and protest, Part I
10. Bodies and protest, Part II
11. The arts during times of crisis
12. Wrap Up Session
13. Acknowledgements
14. Licence

Introduction to the online tasks

Here you will find a set of tasks to help you prepare for your weekly lessons in this module. The tasks include selected readings (some available online) and viewings with questions, reflective activities and other online collaborative activities for which you will be using forums and walls. Each task will take you between one hour and a half and two hours to complete.

Some of this independent and collaborative work will be further exploited during your lessons. Please make sure you come ready for your lesson by completing the relevant task beforehand.