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107-061 You Beaut Country: Australia in the '50s | |
Note | Formerly available as 111-333/433. Students who have completed 111-333/433 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | To be advised |
Prerequisites | Usually 37.5 points of art history at second/third year, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | Not Offered (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture and a 1.5-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | This subject focuses on art and design in Australia in the 1950s. This period saw new economic, cultural and geo-political experiences conflicting with existing, relatively stable nationalist mythologies. These conflicts are also evident within the visual arts, be they debates on international abstraction versus local figuration, modernist architecture as utopia or cultural imperialism, or representations of migrants, Aborigines, and new spaces like the suburbs. The subject aims to re-open the case of the 1950s, as a decade of both complacency and panic, of mythology and demonology, of progress and nostalgia. Students will use interdisciplinary methodologies as a way of exploring the formation or reconfiguration of national identity in a decade of dramatic social and cultural change. |
Assessment | A class paper of 1500 words and an essay of 2500 words for third year, a class paper of 2000 words and an essay of 3000 words for fourth year. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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