Themes in nineteenth-century Australian art
Proposed to be offered next in 1998
Leigh Astbury
8 or 12 points
* 2 hours per week
* First semester
*
Clayton
Objectives Upon completion of this subject students should understand how societal values are embedded in the empirical functions of art in the nineteenth century; and recognise how the ideologies of race, class, gender and nation are exploited in art production.
Synopsis The subject will study colonial art in relation to early settlement and the uses made of art in exploration and anthropology. Issues of contemporaneity, feminism and nationalism will focus discussion on the Heidelberg School.
Assessment fourth year First seminar paper (2500 words): 25%
* Second seminar paper (3000 words): 35%
* Research essay (3500 words):
40%
Assessment fifth year (8 points) Seminar paper (2500
words): 40%
* Essay (3500 words): 60%
Assessment fifth year (12 points) First seminar paper
(2500 words): 25%
* Second seminar paper (3000 words): 35%
* Research
essay (3500 words): 40%
* At fifth-year level there will be a special
research emphasis in which primary consultation of artefacts and relevant
documentation will be necessary.
Preliminary reading
Astbury L City bushmen: The Heidelberg School and the rural mythology OUP, 1985
Bonyhady T Images in opposition: Australian landscape painting 1801-90 OUP, 1985
| Published by Monash University, Clayton, Victoria
3168 Copyright © Monash University 1996 - All Rights Reserved - Caution Authorised by the Academic Registrar December 1996 |