Module LAW2102 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW2102: Art and Law
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Module Aims
- The key aim of the module is to provide you with the opportunity to explore the rich relationship between various areas of law through art, thereby deepening your understanding of the intersections of law in general and especially its impact on cultural and social development.
- The module also aims to provide you with interdisciplinary learning opportunities that will generate rich and stimulating engagements both with the material and peers.
- With a portion of the assessment based on a creative work, the module aims to develop and strengthen your appreciation of how the law filters and facilitates cultural production. The essay component of the assessment criteria aims to enhance critical thinking and creative argumentation skills.
- Throughout the module, you will be challenged to nurture creative and analytical capacities that are particularly valued by employers.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
|---|---|
| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge and understanding of the relationship between law and cultural production 2. Demonstrate a critical knowledge and understanding of main areas of law and visual arts scholarship, using a wide range of appropriate concepts, interpretative techniques and terminology 3. Think critically and creatively through the production of an artistic output based on the application and critical analysis of relevant law and its practical application |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. Exercise critical thinking and judgment concerning the assumptions and aspirations of law 5. Explain relevant information from primary and secondary legal sources using appropriate interpretative techniques 6. Engage with legal materials as a critical and creative reader |
| Personal and Key Skills | 7. Identify, retrieve, and use a range of library-based and electronic resources with minimum guidance 8. Manage time independently and efficiently in preparing for learning activities, to be proactive in developing your own learning, and to work independently within a limited time frame to complete a specified task |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
While the module’s precise content will vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- Introduction to Art and Law
- Access to the Public Domain
- Reuse of the Public Domain
- Creativity in Art and the Law
- Art and the Internet
- Art and Social Media
- Art and Innovation
- Art and Appropriation
- Graffiti and the Law
- Performance Art and Law
- Indigenous Artifacts and Cultural Content
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 32 | 118 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 16.5 | 11 x 1.5 hour Lectures |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 10 | 5 x 2 hour Seminars |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching activities | 5.5 | Film/on-site field trip activities |
| Guided independent study | 55 | 5 hours of reading before each lecture |
| Guided independent study | 35 | Seminar preparation |
| Guided independent study | 5 | Formative preparation |
| Guided independent study | 23 | Consolidation of learning |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Wallace A and Deazley R, Display At Your Own Risk (2016)
Roberts A, No Copyright Infringement Intended (2017)
Al-Badri N and Nelles N, The Other Nefertiti (2016)
Other Learning Resources
Louis Vuitton and Jeff Koons ‘The Masters Collection’
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Books, chapters, and articles
Beilstein S, Permissions: A Survival Guide, Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property (2006)
Gerstenblith P, Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Law (2012)
Kaplan S, ‘Technoheritage’ (2017) 105 California Law Review 1111
Krews C, ‘Museum Policies and Art Images: Conflicting Objective and Copyright Overreaching’ (2012) 22 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal 795
Lessig L, Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy (2008)
Op den Kamp C and Hunter S, A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects (2018)
Sanderhoff M, Sharing is Caring (2014)
Schubert K and McClean D, Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture
Stokes S, Art and Copyright (2012)
Teilmann-Lock S, The Object of Copyright: A Conceptual History of Originals and Copies in Literature, Art and Design (Routledge 2016)
Wallace A and Deazley R, Display At Your Own Risk: An experimental investigation of digital cultural heritage (2016)
Won Yin Wong W, Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade (2013)
Audiovisual reources
Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
Don Argott, The Art of the Steal (2009)
Will.i.am, Mona Lisa Smile (2017)
99% Invisible, No. 225: ‘Photo Credit: Negatives of the Bauhaus’ (2016)
The Artsy Podcast, No. 32: ‘The Law Shaking Up The Art World’ (2017)
