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 111-227 Perspectives On Contemporary Aboriginal Art

Note

Available as 111-327 at 3rd-year level.

No student may receive credit for both this subject and 111-227/327 Aboriginal Art and Culture.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Dr Roger Benjamin

Semester

2

Contact

Three hours of lectures, tutorials or seminars each week

Subject Description

Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and the politics of representation. Starting with Namatjira and the Papunya movement, the subject surveys recent acrylic and bark painting, and urban Koorie painting, photography, and film. Issues such as copyright and appropriation, the art market, womens' art practice, curating and museums policy are debated in the subject.

Assessment

Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual test or take-home examinations totalling about 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts

  • Sutton P (ed), Dreamings The Art of Aboriginal. Australia Viking 1988.


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