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111-104 High Modern To Postmodern: the Visual Arts, 1918-1994

Note: No student may receive credit for both this subject and 111-104 Modern and Postmodern Visual Art, Part B: Modernism into Postmodernism.

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 12.5 1st year

Coordinator: Mr Chris McAuliffe.

Prerequisite: 111-100, 111-103, or 111-105.

Contact: Three hours of lectures and tutorials a week.

Objectives:

In addition to the above, students completing this subject should:

• be aware of critical and theoretical issues currently employed in the study of Modernist and Postmodern art in the period 1918 to the present day.

Content:

Topics in modern and postmodern painting, architecture, photography, art criticism, design and theory from 1918 to the present day.

Assessment:

Exercises and/or essays and/or visual test totalling not more than 4,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Kaplan P E and S Manso (eds) Major European Art Movements 1900-1945 Dutton 1977
• Harrison, C & Wood, P. (eds. ), Art in Theory 1900-1990, Blackwell, Oxford, 1992
• Harrison, C. et. al. , Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The early twentieth century, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993
• Johnson E American Artists on Art Harper and Row 1982

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Status:          Official 1996
Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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