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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Art History

111-418 The History, Philosophy, Architecture and Design of Art Museums

Credit Points:

16.7 4th year

Coordinator:

Dr Christopher Marshall & Assoc. Professor Ann Gallbally

Prerequisite/s:

To have satisfied the entry requirements for Honours in Art History.

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

A 2-hour seminar each week

Subject Description:

A critical examination of the history of private collecting, the rise of the Art Museum in the late C18th and C19th and its various functions in western culture up to the present.

Assessment:

Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual tests or take-home examinations totalling about 6000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • Hooper-Greenhill E, Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge, Routledge 1982.
  • Vergo P T, The New Museology, Reaktion Books 1989.
  • Lumley R, The Museum Time Machine, Routledge 1988.
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