MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
VSA1010
Contemporary visual culture
L Astbury
6 points + 3 hours per week + First semester + Clayton
Synopsis This introductory subject aims to acquaint students with basic
principles of visual analysis, and to develop in students an understanding of
the visual characterisitics of contemporary culture, through the study of
selected aspects of recent Australian art, architecture, photography, and so
on. Discussion will involve consideration of the visual dimensions of various
issues and ideas such as the urban and suburban experience, Aboriginality and
Australia's relationship with Asia, cultural identity and nationalism, the role
of art and architecture in the public realm, and questions concerning the body
and representation.
Assessment First essay (1500 words): 25% + Second essay (2500 words):
50% + Visual test (1 hour): 25%
Prescribed text
- Willis A-M Illusions of identity: the art of nation Hale and
Iremonger, 1993
Recommended texts
- Caruana W Aboriginal art Thames and Hudson, 1993
- During S (ed.) The cultural studies reader Routledge, 1993
- Taylor P (ed.) Anything goes: Art in Australia 1970-1980 Art and
Text, 1984
- Willis A-M Picturing Australia: A history of photography Angus and
Robertson, 1988
- Wood P and others Modernism in dispute: Art since the forties Yale U
P, 1993
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