Transformations of the visual
Conrad Hamann
6 points
* 3 hours per week
* Second semester
* Clayton
Objectives Upon completion of this subject students will have developed skills of visual analysis; understand the role of visual culture in the formation of cultural identity; be able to make informed, critical judgements about various forms of contemporary visual culture within the framework of change and historical development.
Synopsis This subject develops on principles and approaches initiated in VSA1010, expanding to include an international and historical emphasis. The aim is to intensify and extend students' understanding of, and critical responses to, the visual arts, by addressing a range of instances of the changing character of the visual world, from earlier historical periods to the present. Varying approaches to the visual will be addressed in relation to a series of questions and issues such as realism, space and representation; the political and ideological dimensions of architecture and the other visual arts; subjectivity, race, gender and sexuality; psychoanalytic readings; `high' and `low' art; modernism and its discourses.
Assessment First essay (1500 words): 25%
* Second essay (2000
words): 50%
* Visual test (1 hour): 25%
Recommended texts
Baxandall M Painting and experience in fifteenth-century Italy rev. edn, OUP, 1988
Carr D and Leonard M Looking at paintings: A guide to technical terms Getty Museum, 1992
Chadwick W Women, art and society Thames and Hudson, 1990
Frampton K Modern architecture: A critical history 3rd rev. edn, Thames and Hudson, 1992
Stangos N Concepts of modern art Thames and Hudson, 1981
Suleiman S (ed.) The female body in Western culture: Contemporary perspectives Harvard U P, 1985
Wood P and others Modernism in dispute: Art since the forties Yale U P, 1993
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