Content: | Students choose one of the following electives: Art of the Twenties and Thirties (Elective 1); Issues in Contemporary Art (Elective 2); Aboriginal Art and Culture (Elective 3) and Asian Art and Culture (Elective 4). Details of electives are provided below.
- Elective 1: Art of the Twenties and Thirties
- This elective is not offered in 1997.
Staff: Ken Wach.
Contact: A 1-hour lecture and a 1-hour seminar each week throughout the year.
Objectives: On completion of this elective students should be able to use an extended knowledge of the art of the 1920's and 1930's in the context of the major aesthetic movements and schools of thought in Europe and Australia at that time.
Content: Topics selected from: 20th century literature and the Arts; Dada and Surrealism; the Avant-Garde; Modern Sculpture. Students have the opportunity to study manifestos, visit galleries, view films and to read the literature of the period with emphasis upon the formation, manifestation and influence of early modernist aesthetic precepts.
Assessment: A seminar presentation of up to one hour equivalent to 2000 words on a selected topic (40%); submission and presentation of a research paper of 3000 words (60%).
Prescribed texts: Breton A Manifestoes of Surrealism Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 1971. Baxandall L Radical Perspectives in the Arts Penguin London 1972.
- Elective 2: Issues in Contemporary Art
- Staff: Deane Hardwick.
Contact: A 1-hour lecture and a 1-hour seminar each week throughout the year. Students will be required to visit exhibitions to view contemporary works in the light of the issues presented.
Objectives: On completion of this elective students should possess the skills and insights to investigate selected issues in the art practices of the 1980's and 1990's.
Content: Topics selected from: feminist perspectives in the arts; the figurative in recent art; politics and theory in recent art; local and international developments in artistic practice and policy.
Assessment: A seminar presentation equivalent to 2000 words on a selected topic (40%); submission and presentation of a research paper of 3000 words (60%).
Prescribed texts: Ecker G (ed) Feminist Aesthetics The Womens Press London 1985. Wallis B (ed) Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation New Museum of Modern Art New York 1984.
- Elective 3: Aboriginal Art and Culture
- This elective is not offered in 1997.
Contact: A 1-hour lecture and a 1-hour seminar each week throughout the year. Students will be encouraged to visit major collections of Aboriginal material.
Objectives: On completion of this elective students should possess an awareness of the Australian Aboriginal heritage and its present day cultural significance.
Content: Topics selected from: symbolism of desert culture; transitions in bark painting; renewal of mythology and ceremony; the Dreaming sites; contact history; 20th century interaction; aesthetics of the art market.
Assessment: A seminar presentation of up to one hour equivalent to 1500 words on a selected topic (40%); submission and presentation of a research paper of 3000 words (60%).
Prescribed texts: Brandl E J Australian Aboriginal Paintings Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Canberra 1973. Edwards R (ed) Aboriginal Art in Australia Ure Smith Sydney 1978.
- Elective 4: Asian Art and Culture
- This elective is not offered in 1997.
Contact: A 1-hour lecture and a 1-hour seminar each week throughout the year. Extensive use will be made of the resources of the National Gallery of Victoria.
Objectives: On completion of this elective students should be able to explore various issues and research areas in the context of Asian Art and Culture, and should understand the sources of inspiration of selected aspects of Asian visual arts.
Content: Topics selected from: the role of traditional values in the evolution of the arts of Asia; the miniature in the Islamic context; Akbar-Name; Sumerian and Buddhist Art forms and themes in ancient and contemporary times; comparison between Chinese Kuan Yin and Japanese Kannon in painting and sculpture; an appraisal of Tibetan and Indonesian artifacts.
Assessment: A seminar presentation of up to one hour equivalent to 1500 words on a selected topic (40%); submission and presentation of a research paper of 3000 words (60%).
Prescribed texts: Papadopoulo A Islam and Muslim Art Thames and Hudson London 1980. Rowland B The Art and Architecture of India Penguin Harmondsworth 1953.
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