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After Modern Sculpture: Installation, Structures and Space - SAHT2667

Faculty: Faculty of Art & Design

School: School of Art & Design

Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)

Campus: Paddington

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

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Description

This course examines the radical changes in sculptural practices from the mid-1960s to the present. Movements to be analysed include: Fluxus, Arte Povera, Minimalism, Land Art, Postmodernism, and emerging trends such as Designer-Artists (Jorge Pardo, Andrea Zittel). Particular attention will be given to the emergence of installation art and the questioning of the integrity of the sculptural object. The course aims are: to trace and examine the historical and philosophical understandings of late modern, postmodern and contemporary spatial and sculptural practices; to consider how these practices relate to conceptions of time, space and subjectivity and; to examine two recurrent themes in the discussion of installation: the total work of art and the spectacle.
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