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107-043 French Avant-Gardes | |
Note | Formerly available as 111-265/365. Students who have completed 111-265/365 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | To be advised |
Prerequisites | Usually 12.5 points of First Year Art History, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture and a 1.5-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | This subject focuses on the series of French avant-gardes from 1885 to 1935. An examination of theories of avant-garde culture will lead to a study of institutions (e.g. the Salon des indépendants), artists' groups (e.g. Nabis, Surrealists), individualists (e.g. Rousseau, Duchamp), and the dealer-critic system. The relation of art to politics, the body and sexuality, the discourse of abstraction, and the crisis of the art object will be considered in relation to new scholarship in areas like Pointillism, Cézanne's legacy, the Fauves, Cubism, collage, abstract sculpture, Dada, post-War realism, and Surrealist art and photography. Students should develop an understanding of fundamental models of avant-garde cultural practices and in what ways these incorporate ideologies of subjectivity, gender, nation and ethnicity. |
Assessment | An essay of 2000 words and a classpaper of 2000 words. |
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