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Public Art - BENV2904
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

This course examines recent Australian and overseas art that addresses ideas of place and context and that is situated in the public domain. Public art can be an individualistic exercise but more often it results from professional collaboration between artists, designers of the built environment, and the community. Art in public places provides opportunities for design professionals to grapple with historical, social, cultural, environmental and other issues in the creative process. Increasingly state and local governments are developing policies to encourage public art: in some overseas countries a fixed percentage of the costs of a public building must be spent on providing site/place-specific art. This elective has two objectives: one is to examine aspects of the current theoretical discourse on public art, and to debate these ideas in student-led seminars; the other objective is to enable students to conduct research into local recent public art and to write a critical appraisal of a particular work. It is hoped that the research will be incorporated (and acknowledged) in a wider Department-based project on public art, architecture and urban design in Sydney. Material is presented as a mix of lectures and seminars.

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