Caution
Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Graduate coordinator: Mr Leigh Astbury
The discipline of visual arts includes both historical and critical studies in art history and theory (including architecture) and film and television studies. No graduate instruction or program is offered in any practical subjects. The department offers graduate studies in the following areas:
+ European art and architecture from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries;
+ Medieval art;
+ European art and architecture from Renaissance to baroque;
+ Australian art and architecture;
+ American art and architecture;
+ Film and television studies.
JOHN GREGORY medieval art and architecture; renaissance art, especially in Siena; baroque art, especially in Italy and the Netherlands; the collecting of renaissance and baroque art in Australia.
CONRAD HAMANN nineteenth and twentieth-century architecture, with special reference to American and Australian.
DAVID HANAN film studies, with particular reference to film form, European and Asian cinema, and the psychology of the film experience.
ANNE MARSH performance art, photography, feminism, psychoanalytic theory and museum studies.
LEONIE NAUGHTON contemporary film theory, psychoanalysis and the cinema, feminist film theory, popular film culture and contemporary German film.
MARGARET PLANT Italian art with particular reference to Venice up to and including the twentieth century, twentieth-century Australian art, twentieth-century international art with emphasis on recent decades.
ELIZABETH STONEY contemporary film theory, European cinema, alternative cinematic practices and the history of photography.
ANNETTE VAN DEN BOSCH twentieth-century art in Europe, North America and Australia; women's art history; international art since 1960; the sociology of art and the art market; Australian cultural studies; feminist theory and critical theory, and arts and cultural policy in Australia and North America.
DEANE WILLIAMS Australian film, documentary and television.
For the purpose of film study the Monash library holds a moderately representative collection (comprising some sixty films) of world cinema to about 1950. In addition arrangements can be made for detailed research on some areas of more recent world cinema, and on areas of earlier cinema not held in the Monash library collection.
The Department of Visual Arts has a photographer attached to its staff and a fully equipped darkroom. Research students may from time to time be able to use the services of both the photographer and the darkroom in connection with their research.
The degree may be taken either by research or by coursework.
The coursework program is designed to offer advanced studies in both nineteenth and twentieth-century Australian art and architecture and is addressed to those seeking both an overview of Australian studies in the visual arts and the development of research initiative in specialised areas. The coursework degree consists of Part I and Part II (a total of ninety-six points value) over two years of full-time study or approximately four years of part-time study.
+ VAM4010 Making art history
+ VAM4019 The theory and culture of art museums and galleries (Subject to approval of postgraduate coordinator)
+ VAM4020 Theory of art history and criticism
+ VAM4021 Beyond the museum: institutions and insurrections
+ VAM4030 Themes in nineteenth-century Australian art
+ VAM4050 Twentieth-century Australian modernism
+ VAM4060 Readings in Australian art
+ VAM4070 Towards an Australian postmodernism
+ VAM4084 The culture and imagery of cities
+ VAM5021 Beyond the museum: institutions and insurrections*
+ VAM5030 Themes in nineteenth-century Australian art*
+ VAM5050 Twentieth-century Australian modernism*
+ VAM5060 Readings in Australian art (Advanced course)*
+ VAM5070 Towards an Australian postmodernism*
+ VAM5080 The culture and imagery of cities*
+ VAM5090 Visual arts research essay (students will be assigned to a supervisor according to their choice of topic) (first or second semester)
*Students who have completed the asterisked subjects in Part I are ineligible for these subjects in Part II.
Students are required to complete four subjects at twelve points value each (totalling forty-eight points value for the diploma) from the schedule below. The course will normally involve one year of full-time study or two years of part-time study. In 1995 all students commencing the diploma will take subjects to the value of twelve points each. Not all subjects are available in a given year.
+ VAD4010 Making art history
+ VAD4020 Theory of art history and criticism
+ VAD4021 Beyond the museum: institutions and insurrections
+ VAD4030 Themes in nineteenth-century Australian art
+ VAD4050 Twentieth-century Australian modernism
+ VAD4060 Readings in Australian art
+ VAD4070 Towards an Australian postmodernism
+ VAD4080 Readings in Italian Renaissance art
+ VAD4084 The culture and imagery of cities
+ VAD4090 Visual arts research essay
+ VAD4190 Forms of narrative cinema
+ VAD4200 Film theory and film criticism: part 1
+ VAD4210 Film theory and film criticism: part 2
+ VAD4600 Film, culture, class
+ VAD4630 German cinema
+ VAD4750 Indonesian and South East Asian film and television