AART3150
Currencies 2: Contemporary Focus on Historical Themes in Art
10 Units
Available in 2014
| Callaghan Campus | Semester 1 |
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Artists and art historians draw on a wide range of material and issues to interpret works of art and to draw inspiration for developing work in the studio. This course will focus on a different theme each time the course is presented and will investigate works of art under this theme across a wide range of cultures, historical periods and media, though always with a reflection back to opportunities and issues within contemporary practice.
The course will engage history and theory with practices across 2D, 3D and multi-media. Themes may include:
* The Gothic Sensibility: sex, death and the macabre (from the middle ages to cybergoth)
* Art, Food and Gastronomy: food cultures, gastronomy as aesthetic experience, style and distinction, ritual, the ‘vanitas’ tradition, from ‘hearth and home’ to ‘haute cuisine’.
* Cultural Action: art, politics, revolution, resistance and the social role of art.
* Indigenous art and cultural politics: with an emphasis on Australian and South Pacific Indigenous art, but including an investigation of Aboriginal/First nations art and politics world-wide.
| Objectives | On successful completion of this course students will: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the historical precedents of current themes and debates in contemporary art and be able to meaningfully engage in current debates and discourse. 2. Be able to analyse and interpret historical and contemporary works of art from both western and non-western traditions in a thematic and reflexive framework rather than relying on chronological historiography alone. 3. Be able to apply knowledge of historical works of art to contemporary practice, including their own studio work. 4. Understand commonalities and differences in a range of historical and cultural aesthetic practices. 5. Utilise developed writing and research skills appropriate to a career in the visual arts. |
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| Content | Themes may include: * The Gothic Sensibility: sex, death and the macabre (from the middle ages to cybergoth) * Art, Food and Gastronomy: food cultures, gastronomy as aesthetic experience, style and distinction, ritual, the ‘vanitas’ tradition, from ‘hearth and home’ to ‘haute cuisine’. * Cultural Action: art, politics, revolution, resistance and the social role of art. * Indigenous art and cultural politics: with an emphasis on Australian and South Pacific Indigenous art, but including an investigation of Aboriginal/First nations art and politics world-wide. Themes will be rotated to engage contemporary issues. Under the selected theme the course will address the history of the theme in fine art and associated visual culture. This will include identifying and analysing historical variations in artistic treatment, incorporating broader influences from social history and material culture, reinterpretations of ideas and beliefs, and how the material influences contemporary practice and discourse. |
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| Transition | NA | ||||||
| Industrial Experience | 0 | ||||||
| Assumed Knowledge | Completion of Critical Studies 1 and 2 advisable. | ||||||
| Modes of Delivery | Internal Mode | ||||||
| Teaching Methods | Lecture
Tutorial |
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| Contact Hours | Lecture: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term Tutorial: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term |
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| Timetables | 2014 Course Timetables for AART3150 |