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Fine Arts (Art History and Cinema Studies)

• Overview
• Prerequisites
• Requirements for a Major
• Entry to Honours
• Honours requirements:
  • Fine Arts (Art History and Cinema Studies) Pure Honours
  • Fine Arts (Art History and Cinema Studies) Combined Honours
• Opportunities for Further Study
• For more information
• Subject Descriptions
  • Art History (First Year)
  • Art History (Second and Third Year)
  • Third Year
  • Fourth Year Honours

Overview

Fine Arts (Art History and Cinema Studies) involves the history and theory of the Visual Arts including Cinema, Materials and Techniques of Art and Museums and Connoisseurship. Subjects offered range from the art of the Greek and Roman period, through Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, to Modern and Postmodern and/or Contemporary Art and Cinema. Subjects in Australian Art History are one of the Department's strengths. Art History demands a variety of approaches and methods. It involves the documentation of works of art and placing them in their historical context. Art History is also concerned with the different responses to art in various historical eras. The discipline investigates modes of visual communication using the theory of signs and methods developed in cultural anthropology.

Career opportunities for graduates in Art History and Cinema Studies include teaching, academic careers and careers in the arts industry, as directors or curators of art galleries and museums, or as arts administrators.

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 specialise 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.

Prerequisites

There are no specific prerequisites for entry to Fine Arts.

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.

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 three of these Subjects should be in the non Cinema area of Art History.

Entry to Honours

Students intending to undertake Pure Honours are advised to take at least a major in Fine Arts(Art History and Cinema Studies). Up to 10 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 three cinema studies subjects at second or third year level 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 (Art History and Cinema Studies), with an average overall grade of at least H2B in the five subjects comprising the major.

Honours requirements:

Fine Arts (Art History and Cinema Studies) 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 (Art History and Cinema Studies) 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).

Opportunities for Further Study

A degree in Art History can lead to Postgraduate Diplomas in Art History, Art Curatorship and Cinema Studies. An Honours Degree in Art History or Cinema Studies can lead to MA or Ph. D degrees in these areas.

For more information

For further information please contact

The Department of Fine Arts

(Art History and Cinema Studies)

The University of Melbourne

telephone (03) 93445565

Subject Descriptions

Art History (First Year)

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 Western Art A: Image and Interpretation (First semester)
• 111-101 Western Art B: Image and Identity (Second semester)
• 111-103 Brave New Worlds: Modernity and the Visual Arts, 1850-1918 (First semester)
• 111-104 High Modern To Postmodern: the Visual Arts, 1918-1994
• 111-107 Design and Art in the 20Th Century (Second semester)
• 111-108 Visual Cultures (Second semester)

Art History (Second and Third Year)

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 (First semester)
• 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 (First semester)
• 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 (Second semester)
• 111-221/321 Materials and Techniques of Art (First semester)
• 111-223/323 Myths and Legends in Australian Art 1840-1950 (Second semester)
• 111-224/324 Art in the Age of Rembrandt
• 111-226/326 Patrons and the Visual Arts: the European Tradition
• 111-227/327 Perspectives On Contemporary Aboriginal Art
• 111-229/329 Art and the Market, Then and Now (Second semester)
• 111-240/340 Art and Culture in the Burgundian Netherlands 1380-1480 (Second semester)
• 111-243/343 Postmodern Prospects: Issues in Contemporary Art and Criticism (Second semester)
• 111-245/345 Passion, Power and Perception: French Art in the 19Th Century
• 111-249/349 The Representation of Architecture (First semester)
• 111-251/351 Theorising the Body in Australia (First semester)

Third Year

• 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 (Second semester)
• 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 Orientalism in Visual Culture: A Colonising Gaze (First semester)
• 111-333 You Beaut Country: Australian Art and Design in the 1950S (Second semester)
• 111-335 Piranesi'S Rome and Tiepolo'S Venice. Art in the Eighteenth Century (Second semester)
• 111-340 Art and Culture in the Burgundian Netherlands 1380-1480 (Second semester)
• 111-341 Northern Renaissance Art 1480-1600 (Second semester)
• 111-344 Making Gender: Art and Spectatorship in the West 1850-1995 (First semester)

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 a research project through to completion. . (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 (Either semester)
• 111-407 Late Antique and Byzantine Art
• 111-410 Studies in the Art of the Victorian Era (Second semester)
• 111-411 The Connoisseurship of Italian Landscape Painting and Drawing (Second semester)
• 111-412 Roma Barocca: Architecture, Topography and Urbanism in Papal Rome 1580-1900
• 111-415 Art and Theory in Paris, Matisse and Picasso (First semester)
• 111-416 Impressionism and the International Plein-Air Movement 1860-1900
• 111-417 Australian Art At Home and Abroad (First semester)
• 111-418 The History, Philosophy, Architecture and Design of Art Museums (First semester)
• 111-419 Theory and Discourse in Art History (Second semester)
• 111-420 Art and Mass Culture in the 1960S
• 111-421 Contemporary Film Theory (First semester)
• 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) (First semester)
• 111-425 Connoisseurship
• 111-426 Studies in Prints
• 111-428 Religion and Representation in Western Art To the Renaissance
• 111-430 Orientalism in Visual Culture: A Colonising Gaze (First semester)
• 111-431 Sexuality and the Cinema
• 111-432 Media Mythologies (Second semester)
• 111-433 You Beaut Country: Australian Art and Design in the 1950S (Second semester)
• 111-434 Theories and Methodologies of Renaissance & Baroque Art (First semester)
• 111-435 Piranesi'S Rome and Tiepolo'S Venice. Art in the Eighteenth Century
• 111-436 Pastoral Narratives in Western Painting (Second semester)
• 111-437 The Artist'S Self-Portrait: Image, Role and Identity
• 111-440 Art and Culture in the Burgundian Netherlands 1380-1480
• 111-441 Northern Renaissance Art 1480-1600 (Second semester)
• 111-444 Making Gender: Art and Spectatorship in the West 1850-1995 (First semester)
• 111-445 Albrect DÜ Rer: A Catalyst for Artistic Change in Sixteenth Century Germany
• 111-461 The Love Story: Film and Narrative Theory
• 111-462 Australian Cinema (Second semester)
• 111-463 Dream Screen: Film and Psychoanalysis
• 111-464 The Cinematic Body: Theories of Spectatorship (Second semester)
• 111-465 Comedy, Cult and the Carnivalesque (Second semester)

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts

Status:          Official 1996
Date created:    Oct 10 1995
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