3 points
* 2 hours lecture/tutorial and 4 independent
study hours per week
* Second semester
* Caulfield and Gippsland
*
Prerequisites: TAD1101 and TAD1102
Objectives On successful completion of this subject, students should recognise key formal and conceptual characteristics of the varieties of modernism in the visual arts of the Western European tradition from the first half of the twentieth century; understand the concept of `modernism'; be able to relate the various movements and schools of modern art and draw conclusions about the critical influences which informed and produced the various avant-garde styles; have developed such analytical, communication skills as are necessary for them to engage with key examples of the artworks relevant to the subject on a formal and aesthetic level, in addition to discussing content and meaning, place and function within specific artistic, historical, social, and theoretical contexts.
Synopsis This subject builds on the idea of modernism introduced in first year and deals with themes, modes, styles, ideas and techniques in the European art of the first half of the twentieth century. Issues introduced for critical analysis include new modes of representation, expressionism, abstraction, formalism and art and ideologies. Particular art movements discussed will include fauvism, cubism, futurism, constructivism, dada and surrealism. The subject also considers the modern art which arose in the USA and Australia in the same period.
Assessment Two essays: 60%
* One hour visual
examination: 40%
Recommended texts
Golding J Cubism: A history and an analysis Faber, 1986
Goldwater R Primitivism in modern art Harvard U P, 1986
Haese R Rebels and precursors Penguin, 1988
Hamilton G H Painting and sculpture in Europe 1880-1940 Penguin, 1985
Harrison C and Wood P (eds) Art in theory 1900-1990: An anthology of
changing ideas Blackwell, 1992
Hughes R The shock of the new Thames and Hudson, 1991
Lipsey R An art of our own: The spiritual in twentieth-century art
Shambhala, 1988
Moszynska A Abstract art Thames and Hudson, 1990
Smith B Australian painting rev. edn, OUP, 1990
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