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107-030 Contemporary Aboriginal Art | |
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Note | Bachelor of Creative Arts students may credit this subject to a Media Arts and Visual Media major at second or third year. |
Availability | BA and BCA 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | to be advised |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 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 | A subject reader will be available. |
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