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AHT2602

Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Art, Design and Architecture

Organisational Unit

Department of Fine Art

Coordinator(s)

Dr Helen Hughes

Offered

Caulfield

  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Notes

This unit was formerly coded TAD2602

Synopsis

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.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this subject, students should:

  1. have a critical perspective of the selection of the voice, motives and bias of art critics and criticism;
  2. appreciate criticism as a genre of writing, with the unique cultural and practical contingencies acting upon it, and understand the variety of art writing which it comprises
  3. understand the role of the curator as having a creative, political and active part in the production, mediation and dissemination of contemporary art
  4. identify and understand the developments specific to the rise of curator as an important cultural commentator, and the contemporary challenges faced by art criticism
  5. have developed their ability to think creatively and express their ideas clearly in written communication.

Assessment

Assignment 1,500 words (40%)
Research essay 2,500 words (60%)

Workload requirements

12 Hours per week including; 3 contact hours and 9 hours independent study or equivalent.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Daniel Palmer

Prerequisites

12 credit points at first year level in Art history and theory, or Theory of Art and Design, Visual Culture or permission from Unit Coordinator.

Prohibitions

TAD2602, TAD3602, AHT3602,