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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Art History

111-424 Contemporary Art (Art in the USA 1970-1990)

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 4th year

Coordinator:

Mr Chris McAuliffe

Prerequisite/s:

To have satisfied entry requirements for Honours in Art History.

Contact:

One 2-hour seminar per week, and occasional lectures.

Subject Description:

The development of postmodernist practices in art and criticism in the USA.

Assessment:

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

Prescribed Texts:

  • Foster H (ed), The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, Bay Press Port Townsend 1983.
  • Foster H, Recodings, Bay Press Seattle 1985.
  • Harvey D T, he Condition of Postmodernity, Basil Blackwell London 1989.
  • Wallis B, Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation, Godine Boston 1984.
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