Readings in Australian art
M Plant
10 points * 2.5 hours per week * First semester * Clayton
The seminars will address the literature on Australian art with reference to such areas as: settlement and `European vision,' the Australian inflection of modernism, periodisation, the construction of art history through the art exhibition and its catalogue, the manifesto, the literature of export and international exhibition, provincialism and regionalism, the reception of current art. The course is designed to address historiographical and theoretical issues with relation to the writing on Australian art and to identify areas for revision and research. A detailed bibliography will be issued.
Assessment
Written (7500 words): 100%