ARTH6061 Postmodern Sublime
| Offered By | School of Cultural Inquiry |
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| Academic Career | Graduate Coursework |
| Course Subject | Art History |
| Offered in | First Semester, 2012 |
| Unit Value | 6 units |
| Course Description |
This course will both survey postmodern art in general, and will pursue a more focussed approach to a dominant theme of such art, the sublime. In this respect, we will concentrate on the writing of Lyotard. Once the issue of the sublime is raised, the question of the links to Romanticism automatically follows, and the course will investigate whether postmodern art should be considered fundamentally neo-Romantic, or whether it should stand as an independent, revolutionary category in itself. The relation of Modernism to neo-Romanticism will also be investigated, thus allowing for a consideration of Modernism and Postmodernism to each other. Other topics to be examined include the political values and claims of postmodern art and the status of the art-producer as artist-theoretician. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The student is challenged by the range of media examined in this course arising from the explosion of new art forms, when artists deliberately questioned the validity and stronghold of modernist painting and the 'heroic' male artist in the last three decades of the twentieth century. The student's knowledge of postmodernist art will be expanded and their ability to think critically about the changing role, meaning and purpose of art in rising global cultures will result from their engagement with diverse media ranging from photography, fashion, the moving image, collage and painting. Students will assess the rise of feminism in art practice, the appropriation of 'history' in imagery across media, the blurring of boundaries in disciplines, cultures and geographies, and the rising voice of minority groups excluded from the normalising definitions of art presented during the height of modernist era of the 1950s and early 1960s.
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| Indicative Assessment |
2,000 word tutorial paper (30%) 3,000 word essay (50%) Image test (20%) |
| Workload |
2 hours per week of lectures, 1 hour tutorial per week, and up to a day's reading and writing per week.
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| 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 |
* Benjamin, A, (ed), The Lyotard Reader, New York, 1989 * Foster, Hal (ed), The Anti-Aesthetic : Essays on Postmodern Culture, Washington, 1983
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| Academic Contact | Dr Andrew Montana |
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