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TAD3602
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
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Level | Undergraduate |
Faculty | Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture |
Organisational Unit | Department of Fine Art |
Offered | Not offered in 2013 |
Coordinator(s) | Dr Daniel Palmer |
This unit explores the related practices of art criticism and curatorship and their role in communicating art to its publics. It offers a brief history of criticism/curatorship and critical/curatorial approaches, an assessment of reviews, including those of local exhibitions in Melbourne, and considerations of the theoretical underpinnings of critical reception. Students are invited to explore how they might themselves participate in the production of visual critique in the form of exhibition reviews, catalogue essays, curatorial statements, artist statements and so forth.
On successful completion of this subject, students should:
Gallery Review: 30%
Class Presentation: 20%
Class Participation: 10%
Research Essay: 40%
3 hour seminar and 9 independent study hours per week
A second year sequence in TAD units for faculty course students or permission for all other students.
TAD3612, TAD2602