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491-301 Art History and Culture C

Note: Priority is given to BEd (Visual Arts) course students.

Credit points: 16.7

Coordinator: Deane Hardwick, Ken Wach.

Unit 1: Modernist Art and Culture: Ken Wach.
Unit 2: Contemporary Art and Culture: Deane Hardwick.

Contact: Detailed in unit description

Unit 1: Modernist Art and Culture
Timetable: Second semester.: A 1-hour lecture and a 1-hour seminar each week, including guest speakers, visits to art galleries and other related inter-disciplinary activities such as videos and interviews.
Objectives:
Unit 1: Modernist Art and Culture: On completion of this unit students should be able to:

possess a developed understanding of individual artists of the early 20th century and the issues and aesthetic ideas of 20th century art, and a broadening awareness of modernist aesthetics and artistic practice.

Unit 2: Contemporary Art and Culture: On completion of this unit students should be able to:

develop an understanding and appreciation of contemporary artworks and their relationship to cultural, political and economic contexts;
understand the relationship between contemporary culture and related critical and theoretical writing and the complementary practice of art; and
possess skills which contribute to independent critical appreciation through an examination of contemporary art and the art of the past.

Content:

Two compulsory units: Modernist Art and Culture (Unit 1) and Contemporary Art and Culture (Unit 2). Details of the two units are provided below.

Unit 1: Modernist Art and Culture
Topics selected from: Realism, Impressionism, Futurism, Cubism, Symbolism, Abstraction, Dada, Surrealism, Suprematism, Minimalism, Vorticism, Conceptualism, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Tachism, Modernist Sculpture, and British Modernism.
Unit 2: Contemporary Art and Culture
Topics selected from: pluralist practice in the 1970's and 1980's; post-modernism and its manifestations; critical approaches to recent art; political art; feminist art; alternatives in critical thought and art history.

Assessment:

50 per cent for each unit; students must complete both units satisfactorily to pass the subject.

Unit 1: Modernist Art and Culture
A seminar presentation of up to 500 words (20 per cent); a 2000-word research paper on a selected topic (80 per cent).
Unit 2: Contemporary Art and Culture
A seminar presentation of up to 500 words (20 per cent); a 2000-word research paper on a selected topic (80 per cent).

Unit 1: Modernist Art and Culture

Prescribed texts:

Unit 1: Modernist Art and Culture: Chipp H B (ed. ) Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics California University Press Los Angeles 1958. Stangos N and Richardson N (eds) Concepts of Modern Art Thames and Hudson Harmondsworth 1981.
Unit 2: Contemporary Art and Culture: Foster H (ed. ) The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Post-Modern Culture Bay Press Port Townsend 1983. Walker J Art in the Age of Mass Media Pluto London 1983.

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Status:          Official 1996
Date created:    Oct  9 1995
Last modified:   Oct  9 1995
Authorised by:   Academic Registrar
Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au

Maintained by:   Dept. of Visual and Performing Arts, Faculty of Education (Parkville Campus).