VAM4290

Cultural theory and visuality

(ART)

Proposed to be offered next in 2002

Deane Williams

12 points + 2 hours per week plus 2 hour weekly screening + Second semester + Clayton

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

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