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Fine Arts (Art History and Cinema Studies)

The Department provides subjects in the history and theory of the Visual Arts including Cinema; in Materials and Techniques of Art; and in Museums and Connoisseurship. Not all subjects are offered each year, but the Department tries to offer, in alternate years, several of its subjects so that they may be taken at second or third-year level. These subjects are offered in two areas of study, Art History, and Cinema Studies. All Cinema Studies subjects are accepted as Art History subjects and can be taken as part of an Art History major. Students can also specialize in Cinema Studies. Cinema Studies subjects are listed under "Cinema Studies". Art History subjects and fourth year Cinema Studies subjects are listed below. The two areas of study are interrelated and the requirements for both are given below.

Requirements for a major:

A major in Art History consists of at least five subjects offered by the Department at second and third year level, totalling 83.3 points. At least one subject at either second or third year level must be chosen from those indicated by an asterisk (*).

Prerequisites

The prerequisite for a second semester first year Fine Arts (Art History and Cinema Studies) subject is normally a first semester first year subject offered by the Fine Arts Department.

The prerequisite for a second or third year Fine Arts (Art History and Cinema Studies) subject is normally 25 points in subjects offered by the Department at first year level.

The prerequisite for a subject offered at both third and fourth year levels in Fine Arts is normally 33 points at second/third year in Fine Arts subjects.

Entry to Honours:

Students intending to undertake Pure Honours are advised to take at least a major in Fine Arts. Up to 10 Fine Arts subjects (a total of 167 points) may be taken at second and third year. Students should note that fourth year Cinema Studies subjects have as a prerequisite at least one second or third year Cinema Studies subject, and fourth year Art History subjects have as a prerequisite at least two second or third year Art History subjects, excluding Cinema Studies.

Admission to fourth year honours is subject to completion of the requirements of a pass degree and must first be approved by the Head of Department. The prerequisite is normally a major in Fine Arts, with an average overall grade of at least H2B in the five subjects comprising the major.

Honours requirements:Fine Arts Pure Honours

Students enrol in four single-semester honours subjects, and 111-400 Fine Arts Honours Thesis, all in the Fine Arts Department.

Fine Arts Combined Honours

Two single-semester honours subjects in the Fine Arts Department (33.3 points), and 111-400 Fine Arts Honours Thesis, or a thesis or its equivalent in the other department according to the requirements of that department (33.3 points), and subjects in the other department according to the requirements of that department (33.3 points).

Art History

General objectives for first-year Art History subjects

Students completing first-year Art History subjects should:

have a basic understanding of the history of visual forms and basic skills in visual analysis.
have a basic understanding of the principal methods of analysis employed in the discipline of art history.
have basic oral skills for the discussion of visual forms and basic skills in essay writing relevant to the discipline of art history, including presenting an argument, marshalling and documenting evidence, and basic bibliographic skills.

111-100 INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY A
111-101 INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY B
111-103 MODERNISM IN THE VISUAL ARTS, 1850-1918
111-104 HIGH MODERN TO POSTMODERN: THE VISUAL ARTS, 1918-1994

General objectives for second and third-year Fine Arts subjects

Students completing Second and Third-year Fine Arts subjects should:

have a deeper understanding of the history of visual forms and their cultural contexts, and have further developed skills in visual analysis.
have a sound basis for the understanding of a more extended range of methods of analysis employed in the discipline of art history.
have more developed oral skills for the discussion of visual forms and more developed skills in essay writing relevant to the discipline of art history, including presenting an argument, marshalling and documenting evidence, and more advanced bibliographic skills.

*111-203/303 ITALIAN ART FROM DONATELLO TO MICHELANGELO
*111-205/305 ITALIAN HIGH RENAISSANCE AND MANNERIST ART
*111-208/308 FROM CELTIC TO GOTHIC: MEDIEVAL ART IN NORTHERN EUROPE
*111-209/309 THE ART OF EUROPE AND BYZANTIUM
*111-213/313 BAROQUE AND ROCOCO PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
111-214/314 VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN ART
*111-216/316 COLONIALISM/POSTCOLONIALISM AND THE ART OF AUSTRALIA 1770-1900
111-217/317 NATIONALISM AND MODERNISM IN 20TH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN ART
111-218/318 STUDIES IN ASIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
111-221/321 MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES OF ART
111-223/323 MYTHS AND LEGENDS IN AUSTRALIAN ART 1840-1950
111-226/326 PATRONS AND THE VISUAL ARTS: THE EUROPEAN TRADITION
111-227/327 ABORIGINAL ART AND CULTURE
111-243/343 POSTMODERN PROSPECTS: ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ART AND CRITICISM
*111-245/345 PASSION, POWER AND PERCEPTION: FRENCH ART IN THE 19TH CENTURY
111-251/351 THE BODY IN AUSTRALIA

Third Year Subjects

111-302 ART, SOCIETY AND RITUAL IN TRECENTO ITALY
111-307 LATE ANTIQUE AND BYZANTINE ART
111-311 THE CONNOISSEURSHIP OF ITALIAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING AND DRAWING
111-312 ROMA BAROCCA: ARCHITECTURE, TOPOGRAPHY AND URBANISM IN PAPAL ROME 1580-1900
111-320 ART AND MASS CULTURE IN THE 1960S
111-322 SPECIAL STUDY RESEARCH ESSAY
111-330 COLONIALISM AND ORIENTALIST ART
111-333 YOU BEAUT COUNTRY: AUSTRALIAN ART AND DESIGN IN THE 1950S
111-340 ART AND CULTURE IN THE BURGUNDIAN NETHERLANDS 1380-1480
111-341 NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART 1480-1600
111-344 MAKING GENDER: ART AND SPECTATORSHIP IN THE WEST 1850-1995

Fourth-year Honours

Coordinator: Dr Roger Benjamin.

General objectives for fourth-year Fine Arts subjects

Students completing fourth-year Fine Arts should:

have an advanced understanding of particular aspects of the history of visual forms, and a competence in particular methods employed in the discipline of Art History;
have advanced skills in oral and written communication relevant to the discipline of art history, including presenting an argument, marshalling and documenting evidence, and advanced bibliographic skills;
have shown in the honours thesis the capacity to initiate and pursue through the completion of a research project (Pure Honours or Combined Honours with thesis in Fine Arts only).

111-400 FINE ARTS HONOURS THESIS
111-402 ART, SOCIETY AND RITUAL IN TRECENTO ITALY
111-403 FINE ARTS 4A
111-404 FINE ARTS 4B
111-407 LATE ANTIQUE AND BYZANTINE ART
111-410 STUDIES IN THE ART OF THE VICTORIAN ERA
111-411 THE CONNOISSEURSHIP OF ITALIAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING AND DRAWING
111-412 ROMA BAROCCA: ARCHITECTURE, TOPOGRAPHY AND URBANISM IN PAPAL ROME 1580-1900
111-415 ART AND THEORY IN PARIS, MATISSE AND PICASSO
111-416 IMPRESSIONISM AND THE INTERNATIONAL PLEIN-AIR MOVEMENT 1860-1900
111-417 AUSTRALIAN ART AT HOME AND ABROAD
111-418 THE HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN OF ART MUSEUMS
111-419 THEORY AND DISCOURSE IN ART HISTORY
111-420 ART AND MASS CULTURE IN THE 1960S
111-421 CONTEMPORARY FILM THEORY
111-422 GENRE THEORY: SCIENCE FICTION AND HORROR
111-423 ART AND THE BOOK IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE: ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
111-424 CONTEMPORARY ART (ART IN THE USA 1970-1990)
111-425 CONNOISSEURSHIP
111-426 STUDIES IN PRINTS
111-428 RELIGION AND REPRESENTATION IN WESTERN ART TO THE RENAISSANCE
111-430 COLONIALISM AND ORIENTALIST ART
111-431 SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA
111-432 MEDIA MYTHOLOGIES
111-433 YOU BEAUT COUNTRY: AUSTRALIAN ART AND DESIGN IN THE 1950S
111-434 THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES OF RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ART
111-440 ART AND CULTURE IN THE BURGUNDIAN NETHERLANDS (1380-1480)
111-441 NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART 1480-1600
111-444 MAKING GENDER: ART AND SPECTATORSHIP IN THE WEST 1850-1995
111-445 ALBRECT DÜRER: A CATALYST FOR ARTISTIC CHANGE IN SIXTEENTH CENTURY GERMANY

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