MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Art & Design Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
CFT2462
History and theory of the crafts
2 points + One 1-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week + Second
semester + Peninsula + Prerequisites: CFT2461, CER2721 or equivalent
Objectives Assisting students to develop an elementary understanding of
theories and criticism from the sixteenth century onwards and enabling them to
articulate this understanding through research and communication, as a means of
making sense of recent developments in art, craft and design.
Synopsis We look at the development of perception from two sides: we
explore instinctual, sensory, emotional and spiritual levels of perception and
we look at ways in which materials, processes, techniques and gestures of
making awaken and train our perceptions on those different levels. Apart from
visual examples through slides, there will be some work with legends and myths,
archetypal images and the notion of `play' as primeval source of culture.
Assessment Subject record: 50% + 2000-word essay or equivalent
presentation: 50%
Recommended texts
- Bachelard G Water and dreams: An essay on the imagination of matter
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 1982
- Focillon H The life of forms in art Zone Books, 1989
- Gombrich E H The sense of order: A study in the psychology of decorative
art Phaidon, 1979
- Needleman C The work of craft: An enquiry into the nature of craft and
craftmanship Arkana, 1986
- Pye D The nature and aesthetics of design Herbert Press,
1988
Dormer P The Art of the Maker Thames and Hudson, 1994
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