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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.

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 seminar per week

Subject Description

This subject deals with 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. By the end of semester students should have a familiarity with problems in the interpretation of Aboriginal art and culture in postcolonial Australia and have a broad knowledge of pictorial practices of contemporary Aboriginal art.

Assessment

An essay of 2000 words and a class paper of 2000 words.

Prescribed Texts

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


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