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 107-019 Introduction to Art History B: Artist and Audience

Note

Formerly available as 111-110. Students who have completed 111-110 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

1st year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Dr Chris McAuliffe

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

This subject explores the relationships between art, artist, and audience by examining four major themes from Medieval Art to Contemporary Art: (a) the artist as genius (creativity, originality, and the cult of genius); (b) the artist and patron (public and private, church and state, collectors and dealers); (c) art as institution (museums, tourism, publications, web sites, cultural appropriation); (d) the artist and the critic (the rise and fall of reputations, the reception of art, the critic today).

Assessment

An essay of 1500 words, and a classpaper of 1500 words, and visual tests equivalent to 1000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • M Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy. (2nd ed) Oxford University Press 1988.
  • W Caruana, Aboriginal Art. Thames & Hudson 1993.
  • A Moszynska, Abstract Art. Thames & Hudson 1990.
  • L Partridge, The Renaissance in Rome, 1400-1600. Weidenfield & Nicolson 1996.
  • P Smith, Impressionism: Beneath the Surface. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson 1995.
  • B Taylor, The Art of Today. Weidenfield & Nicolson 1995.
  • D Wheeler, Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present. Vendome Press 1991.
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