Course

Art and Everyday Life - SAHT3212

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: GEND3225

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

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Description

This course examines the practices of art and of criticism in an era characterised by the pervasiveness of mass media and the aestheticisation of everyday life. The course explores the forms and significance of popular culture in the 20th century, including consumerism, mass media, TV and advertising, subcultures, the city and the suburb, and their impact on art. The interdisciplinary development of cultural studies provides tools for reading artistic strategies in the light of television, film, computer imaging, the popular press and advertising. The work of theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Michel de Certeau and Meaghan Morris is applied to these areas and critically examined.
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