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Critical Perspectives on Twentieth Century Art and Design - GENR0019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description This course is designed to introduce students to 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 lectures 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, postmodernism, internationalism, nationalism, regionalism, gender and identity.
In visual and cultural studies there is no single correct interpretation of a particular art work or movement. This course has been designed to enable you to become aware of the plurality of interpretations and to appreciate (if not always endorse or adopt) the arguments for contesting interpretations of objects and events. |