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 107-030 Contemporary Aboriginal Art

Note

Formerly available as 111-227/327. Students who have completed 111-227 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Dr Roger Benjamin

Prerequisites

Usually 12.5 points of first year Art History

see Prerequisites

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture and a 1.5-hour seminar per 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 Koori painting, photography, and film. Issues such as copyright and appropriation, the art market, women's art practice, curating and museums policy are debated in the subject.

Assessment

An essay of 2000 words and a classpaper of 2000 words

Prescribed Texts

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


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