AHT2740 · Australian art

Overview

This unit offers a broad historical survey of Australian art from European colonisation to the present. Topics examined will be the First Fleet artists, the work of John Glover, the Heidelberg School, Australian modernism, post-War Australian landscape, the work of Albert Namatjira and Margaret Preston and the work of a number of contemporary Australian artists, including Gordon Bennett and Tracey Moffatt. The course will ask questions concerning the "Australianness" of Australian art and whether we can write a new history of Australian art appropriate to contemporary conditions.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

100% in-semester assessment

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Identify a range of critical perspectives onto the history of Australian art;
2. Show a broad familiarity with the major artists in the history of Australian art;
3. Discuss a number of contemporary Australian artists and the methodological questions involved in the writing of Australian art history today;
4. Demonstrate an ability to respond thoughtfully and critically to works of art in your own words.

Workload

12 hours per week including 3 contact hours plus 9 hours independent study, or equivalent.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.