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ARTH6027 Australian Art: 20th and 21st Century

Offered By School of Cultural Inquiry
Academic Career Graduate Coursework
Course Subject Art History
Offered in ARTH6027 will not be offered in 2011
Unit Value 6 units
Course Description

This course will examine a variety of visual sources for mainly non-Aboriginal art in Australia during our century and up to the present day. While it will in no way attempt a survey of Australian art, it will range widely, looking at different media and art forms including architecture, printmaking and sculpture.

Course Classification(s) SpecialistSpecialist courses are designed for students having reached 'first degree' level of assumed knowledge, which provide for the acquisition of specialist skills; or 'second degree' and higher level of knowledge; or for transition to research training programs; or knowledge associated with professional accreditation.
Areas of Interest Art History
Preliminary Reading

* Dean, D, Museum Exhibition: Theory and Practice, Routledge, London, 1994
* Hooper-Greenhill, E, Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge, Routledge, London, 1992
* Serota, N, Experience or Interpretation: The Dilemma of Museums of Mode in Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1996

Academic Contact Prof. Sasha Grishin

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