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Critical Perspectives on Twentieth Century Art and Design - BENV2213 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description This course introduces some of the key interpretive strategies used in art history and cultural studies over the last hundred years, with an emphasis on current lively debates. The classes will explore and question some of the layers of interpretation of artists works from the time they were made to the present. European, North American and Australian art and design will be examined through various filters such as modernism, post modernism, internationalism, nationalism, regionalism, gender and identity. In visual and cultural studies there is no single correct interpretation of a particular artwork or movement. This course has been designed to enable you to become aware of the plurality of interpretations and to appreciate if not always to endorse or adopt) the arguments for contesting interpretations of objects and events. Material is presented as two-hour lectures. Assessment will include individual and group work.
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