Course description
Specialisation Requirements:
* 50 points elective subjects with no more than 12.5 points at first-year level
First year subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
107-130 Art History: Theory and Controversy
This subject introduces the study of art history by focusing on the work of art through a number of case studies drawn from a Western cultural and historical context. It develops a broad understanding of the historical and aesthetic characteristics o... Semester 2 12.50
107-131 Modern Art: The Politics of the New
This subject explores a selection of artists, movements and themes in late 19th and 20th century art. The subject will examine such topics as cross-cultural interaction and its impact on art, the advent of new artistic techniques such as abstraction ... Semester 1 12.50
Other elective subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
107-028 Australian Art: Rock to Pop
This subject provides a scholarly introduction to the history of art in Australia, at the same time incorporating new perspectives, approaches and ideas. It demonstrates ways of interpreting Australian art through its relationship to historical event... Semester 2 12.50
107-023 Baroque Art: Caravaggio to Bernini
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
107-030 Contemporary Aboriginal Art
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
107-031 Art and the Market: Then and Now
This subject deals with the emerging area of studies of the marketing of art. It commences in 15th century Italy with an examination of the organisation of artists' workshops and concludes by analysing the relationships between contemporary arti... Semester 2 12.50
107-038 Modernist Avant-Gardes
This subject examines responses to modernity in avant-garde art, culture and theory during the high modernist period (1900-1950). A variety of stylistic categories (including Futurism, Expressionism, Cubism, Constructivism, Dada and Surrealism) and i... Semester 1 12.50
107-046 Contemporary Australian Art: 1968 to Now
This subject examines contemporary artistic practice in Australia, from 1968 to the present. A broad variety of media will be considered, including painting, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, video and multimedia technologies. Artist... Semester 2 12.50
107-210 Contemporary International Art
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
107-242 Renaissance Art 1: Donatello to Leonardo
The subject focuses in depth on the art and culture of Renaissance Italy, especially Florence during the fifteenth century. In part we will examine the lives and works of Donatello, Masaccio,Verrocchio, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and others, in re... Semester 1 12.50
107-243 Renaissance Art 2: Giorgione to Michelan
The subject will focus on the works and lives of artists in three contrasting cities, Florence, Rome and Venice in sixteenth century Italy. The rivalries between artistic centres in Renaissance Italy will be analysed in, in terms of rivalries between... Semester 2 12.50
107-262 History and Theory of Photography
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
107-305 Art History in Practice
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
107-306 Art Abroad
This subject is taught alternatively on-site in New York or in Rome, using the social, economic, geographical and cultural effects of the respective cities as case studies or culture in action. Students will be introduced to the key institutional com... Summer 25
