760-241 Surrealism and the Creative Imagination

Formerly available as 760-331. Students who have completed 760-331 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. This is a visual arts (T) subject. BA students amy credit this subject to an art history or cinema studies major.

12.5 points of first-year visual arts (T) or equivalent.

This subject includes programmed study which examines and analyses the art and related critical writing of the 1920s and the 1930s in the context of the major aesthetic movements and schools of thought in contemporary Europe and Australia. Topics explored may include surrealist art, theory and aesthetics; Dada and the art of revolt; art, irrationality and creativity; psychoanalysis and the role of the imagination; automatism and the arts; literature and the arts; the Bloomsbury group; British art between the wars; modernist sculpture; and the development of the avant-garde. Students will have the opportunity to study relevant theory and the manifestoes, visit galleries, view films, and read the literature of the period with emphasis upon the formation, manifestation and influence of early modernist aesthetic precepts.

A 1-hour seminar presentation totalling 1500 words and submission of a research paper totalling 2500 words. Minimum of 80% attendance (hurdle requirement).