Course

Approaches to Australian Art - SAHT2214

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

Equivalent: AUST2030

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

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Description

This course introduces some of the preoccupations of Australian art in the years since colonisation. Issues to be discussed include: the notion of the artist as a recorder in the 18th and early 19th centuries; the ways in which art was marshalled into the fin de siecle search for a national identity; the changing perceptions of what 'legitimate' Australian art may be; the different (and changing) perceptions of gender in Australian visual culture; ideas of what may be 'modern' in an Australian context; the yearning of the colonial artists to succeed at international centres of Empire; the impact of non-British traditiions on Australian art, the growth of an appreciation of different aspects of Indigenous cultures and their impact on how Australian art is seen today.
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