Eurocentred Visions: Race, Sex and Power in Art - SAHT2211
Faculty: College of Fine Arts
School: School of Art History and Art Education
Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)
Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Excluded: SAHT9202
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
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Description
The course will explore how art and other visual cultures reinforced or challenged totalitarianism, geopolitics, industrial capitalism, nationism, surveillance, the nuclear family and sexual normalization. Drawing upon interdisciplinary models provided by Michel Foucault, Edward Said, amongst others, it will explore how to rewrite and reimage narratives of art and visual culture. It will also consider why such revisionism remains so contentious, as illustrated by the 'history wars' that continue to rage today.