107-434 The Baroque: Theory and Method

Formerly available as 107-062. Students who have completed 107-062 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth-year honours in art history, cinema studies or to the Master of Art Curatorship.

This subject focuses on the Baroque, as concept, style, and period, in order to explore at an advanced level theories and methodologies of the study of visual culture. It will look at the Baroque as a stylistic operation, for example in antique, seventeenth-century, nineteenth-century, and twentieth-century art; as the seventeenth-century cultural paradigm; and as a critical theory applicable to art, architecture, the decorative arts, cinema and new entertainment media.