107-486 History, Travel and the Visual Arts

Formerly available as 107-070. Students who have completed 107-070 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth-year honours in art history.

This subject examines the various connections between travel and the visual arts through a number of case studies, from a Western perspective, that range across several geographic sites. There is an emphasis on the theoretical issues (historiographical and methodological) that arise from a study of the relationship between travel and the visual arts. Other themes arising in this study relate to gender, the visual arts and travel; colonialism, the visual arts and travel; nationalism, the visual arts and travel; and sexualities, the visual arts and travel.