AHT4503 · Advanced fine art research: Theory

Overview

This unit examines key histories, theories, and frameworks of contemporary art, introducing students to a range of prominent contemporary artists, historians, curators, and theorists. The unit aims to equip students undertaking an honours year – in either art history, fine art or curatorial practice – with an enriched understanding of the art-historical context in which they are working. It also introduces students to advanced research methodologies for writing about contemporary art.

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. Demonstrate awareness of current discourses in a range of disciplines that bear on the production, exhibition, and interpretation of contemporary art;
2. Distinguish between different frameworks and methods for analysing artworks and exhibitions (i.e., queer, feminist, decolonial, Marxist, etc.;
3. Undertake detailed, original, and imaginative analyses and interpretations of artworks and exhibitions;
4. Undertake advanced and original research on artworks, exhibitions, and relevant art history and theory.

Workload

12 hours per week including 3 contact hours plus 9 hours of independent study.

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