CLS4270

Cultural theory and visuality

(ART)

Constantine Verevis

12 points + 2 hours per week plus 2-hour weekly screening + Second semester + Clayton + Prohibitions: VSA4290, EUR4290

Synopsis: The relation between cultural and critical theory and the visual field. The range of visual products whose theorisation will be considered includes photography and film, painting, sculpture, architecture, performance, non-Western visual practices, and common objects. Historical positions and theoretical construction of these products with reference to the discourses of modernism and modernity, postmodernism, the body, totalitarianism/post-totalitarianism, museology and institutions, and /the everyday0.

Assessment: Essay (3000 words): 30% + Essay (6000 words): 60% + Seminar participation: 10%