VAM4030

Themes in nineteenth-century Australian art

Proposed to be offered next in 2000

Leigh Astbury

8 or 12 points -2 hours per week -First semester -Clayton

Objectives Upon completion of this subject students should understand how societal values are embedded in the empirical functions of art in the nineteenth century; and recognise how the ideologies of race, class, gender and nation are exploited in art production.

Synopsis The subject will study colonial art in relation to early settlement and the uses made of art in exploration and anthropology. Issues of contemporaneity, feminism and nationalism will focus discussion on the Heidelberg School.

Assessment (8 points) -Research project (4000 words): 100% Intern practical work (equivalent 2000 words)
Assessment (12 points) Catalogue exercise (1500 words): 25% Research project (5500 words): 75% Intern practical work (equivalent 2000 words)

Preliminary reading

Astbury L City bushmen: The Heidelberg School and the rural mythology OUP, 1985
Bonyhady T Images in opposition: Australian landscape painting 1801-90 OUP, 1985

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