ART: History+Theory+Cultures

The Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) has a two-stage enrolment process. In stage one, you will enrol via Enrolment Online into our courses for semesters one and two. In stage two, you will select your semester one classes for Fine Art Studio and Workshop classes, and semester one and two classes for ART: History+Theory+Cultures via a preferencing process.

This page will assist you with preferencing. Here you will find a list of potential semester one and two ART: History+Theory+Cultures classes. (Note: There is a separate page for Fine Art Studio classes and a separate page for Workshop classes.) You will only take one ART: History+Theory+Cultures class in semester one, but you need to list two (2) preferences. These ART: History+Theory+Cultures classes will be for both second and third year students and will be offered under the following course codes:

ART3: History+Theory+Cultures HUSO 2403 (2nd year students)
ART4: History+Theory+Cultures HUSO 2405 (3rd year students)

These are the course codes you enrolled in the stage 1 process.

Read the list below carefully and select two ART: History+Theory+Cultures classes you would be happy to enrol in for 2019.

Please note that HUSO2405 ART 4: History+Theory+Cultures will only be offered in Semester 1, 2019. ART 4: History+Theory+Cultures will also be offered as a Summer School intensive (Mid-Jan to early Feb 2019) as part of the Theme and Variation class.

The 2019 preferencing process will be communicated to you by email later this year.

2nd Years - please take note of which semester the class is running and then enrol in a university elective in the alternative semester.

IMPORTANT – You must not repeat any class in your preference lists. Every effort will be made to place you in your first preference classes.

To graduate from the  BP201P16 program you must successfully complete four Art: History+Theory+Cultures courses

Please note: although we would like to offer all of the Art: History+Theory+Cultures options below, classes are subject to viability and may not run if numbers are too low.

ART: History+Theory+Cultures Classes

The following ART: History+Theory+Cultures classes will be running in Semester 1, 2019. If you you would like to take one of these classes in semester 1, you will need to enrol in your university elective course in semester 2.

To take any of the following classes you must be enrolled in either:

HUSO 2403 (2nd year students)
or
HUSO 2405 (3rd year students)

In this class you will focus on the relationship between art and its social and political context. Key topics include: questions of authorship and originality; feminism; queer practices; cultural diversity and identity politics; Indigenous Australian artists and Sovereignty; the artist and the market; collaborative practices; participatory and socially engaged art practices; and political art and activism. You will examine these different ideas and approaches to the social and political context of art through select examples and histories provided in lectures and seminars. These will provide you with strong and diverse cultural, theoretical and historical contexts. The emphasis is on critically engaging and debating the continually changing ideas about art. (This class was previously offered as SOCIAL ROLE OF THE ARTIST, do not select this class option if you have already completed SRA).

Teacher: Grace McQuilten

Hours: Monday, 1hr lecture followed by a 2hr seminar class

In this class you will develop an understanding of the current cultural, critical and theoretical questions relevant to how the arts and humanities are responding to environmental issues such as climate change and species extinction. You will examine the ways artists have interpreted these issues historically and in the contemporary context. You will also consider the way nature is represented in popular culture. You will gain an understanding of such topics along with the current critical debates surrounding them, such as eco-philosophy and ecocritical theory. You will also gain insight into why questions of our approaches to the non-human world have become critical to contemporary thought.

Teacher: Linda Williams

Hours: Mondays, 1hr lecture followed by a 2hr seminar class

This class provides you with a critical and theoretical context for your own art practice. It is open to all third year students and is recommended for students wanting to complete Honours in the future or for those students wanting to apply critical perspectives to their practice.

The class will focus on specialised theoretical and critical approaches and topics to help you to develop a critically reflective approach and to provide you with the skills and methods for applying this to your own practice. This class builds on and extends your previous skills and experiences in A: H+T+C to enable you to critically analyse, evaluate and write about your own art practice and to locate it within the broader context of art. You will participate in guided discussions in seminar classes to critically examine current and historical practices and ideas in art, and in workshops facilitating independent research and skills in writing about art.

Teacher: Kristen Sharp

Hours: Mondays, 1hr lecture followed by a 2hr seminar class

In this class you will undertake an interdisciplinary study of the body through deep genealogies in art, social history and critical theory. You will examine how these histories inform a contemporary understanding of the body. The focus is on the body in art from classical antiquity to contemporary configurations, and in positioning art in its broader social, historical and theoretical contexts.

Teacher: Drew Pettifer

Hours: Mondays, 1hr lecture followed by a 2hr seminar class

ART: History+Theory+Cultures Classes

The following classes will be offered in Semester 2, 2019.  If you you would like to take one of these classes, you will need to enrol in your university elective course in first semester.

To take any of the following classes you need to be enrolled in either:

ART2: History+Theory+Cultures HUSO2401 (1st year students)
or
ART3: History+Theory+Cultures HUSO 2403 (2nd year students)

Lens & Screen covers the development of photography, cinema, video and digital technologies from the 19thC to now. You be introduced to the central theories and practices of these lens & screen based technologies, and their relationship with art practice and visual culture. Some of the key topics that will be covered include: originality, reproduction and appropriation, digital and social media, the documentary and questions of truth and immediacy, the politics of representation, formalism, archive and memory, and experimental technologies. The emphasis of the course is on a critical and expansive approach to lens & screen based technologies and understanding their application across diverse art and cultural practices.

Teacher: Ian Haig

Hours: Mondays, 1hr lecture followed by a 2hr seminar class

The class introduces you to key developments, terms and concepts of Modernism from a variety of historical and cultural perspectives. You will explore how Modernism emerged and transformed across different cultural and historical contexts. You will be introduced to Euroamerican and Australian histories and contexts of art, and offered perspectives that challenge conventional narratives particularly those operating from eurocentric or chronological viewpoints.

Key topics will focus on practices and ides central to contemporary art: the artist as producer, gestures and processes, industrialisation, the avant-garde, abstraction, originality and reproduction, aesthetics and formalism, and representation and identity. Material will be drawn from diverse practices in art, media, design and architecture. You will be encouraged to critically reflect on these practices and ideas in class and in assessment work.

Teacher: Kristen Sharp (TBC)

Hours: Mondays, 1hr lecture followed by a 2hr seminar class

The Modern Object investigates how contemporary craft and design practices are informed by modernist histories, and how ideas of genre and discipline were challenged and expanded throughout the twentieth century. You will explore how key ideas such as function, skill, ornament, the interior and materiality intersect with concepts like environment, philosophy, ideology, technology and politics. You will also examine key debates at the intersection of craft and design and the cultural and historical contexts that inform artists and the artworks they make. You will be introduced to key terms and methods relevant to design and craft practices.

Teacher: Kristen Sharp (TBC)

Hours: Mondays, 1hr lecture followed by a 2hr seminar class

This intensive summer class is delivered through a series of face-to-face lectures and seminars. You will examine the historical and theoretical background of select issues, ideas and practices in contemporary art and explore the importance of continuity and change as it relates to art practices across histories and contexts.

Teacher: Grace McQuilten

Hours: Monday-Thursday 10.30am - 2.00pm 14th-17th January 2019, 21st-24th January 2019, 28th-31st January 2019
Assessment: 28th January & 18th February, 2019
Last day to add: 20th January 2019
Census date: 23rd January 2019