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 107-070 The Traveller's Eye: History, Travel and the Visual Arts

Note

Formerly available as 111-486. Students who have completed 111-486 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

4th year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

To be advised

Prerequisites

Students must have satisfied the entry requirements for fourth year Honours in Art History.

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour seminar per week

Subject Description

This subject examines the various connections between travel and the visual arts through a number of case-studies, from a western perspective, that range across several geographic sites. There is an emphasis on the theoretical issues (historiographical and methodological) that arise from a study of the relationship between travel and the visual arts. Other themes arising in this study relate to gender, the visual arts and travel; colonialism, the visual arts and travel; nationalism, the visual arts and travel; and sexualities, the visual arts and travel.

Assessment

Written work which may comprise classpapers, essays or take-home examinations totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts

  • K Jenkins, On 'What is History?'. Routledge 1995.
  • E Leeds, The Mind of the Traveler. Basic Book 1991.


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