AART2000
10 units
2000 level
Course handbook
Description
Using diverse examples of contemporary visual art and selected historical texts, this course engages with current conventions and issues in Australian art and how they relate to broader global histories. Students will gain core knowledge of the ‘artworld’ mechanisms which support careers in the visual arts, including but not limited to studio production, arts management and education.Contemporary art practice and concepts are critically investigated in this course, with an emphasis on Indigenous and culturally diverse Australian artists. Through key texts and artworks students will learn how postmodernism interrupted modernism and paved the way for contemporary art, now a dynamic creative force in the 21st century.
Availability
Not currently offered.
This Course was last offered in Semester 2 - 2023.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Apply research methods in art history and contemporary art practice;
2. Present knowledge of key visual art concepts and developments through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries;
3. Critically analyse a given work of art within its cultural, social and political context in written and/or oral form;
4. Describe a variety of creative approaches to communicating in visual art forms.
Content
Topics will include:
- The expanded field of art practice;
- Art as commodity and/or political document;
- Performance, time-based works and live art;
- Nationalism, postcolonialism and globalism;
- Indigenous cultural expression;
- Analysing key artworks and texts;
- Identity politics;
- Art institutions, artistic agency, art audiences and market
Requisite
Students who have successfully completed AART1110 cannot enrol in this course.
Assumed knowledge
To enrol in this course students must have successfully completed 40 units at the 1000 level.
Assessment items
Written Assignment: Written Project
In Term Test: Image Analysis (Slide test)
Literature Review: Literature Review
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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