TAD2110

Utopia found and lost: 1945 to now

6 points
* Two 1.5 hour tutorials per week
* Second semester
* Caulfield and distance
* Prerequisites: TAD1101 and TAD1102

Objectives On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to identify the basic tenets of the major movements in art and design from 1945 to the present; give critical consideration to the main concepts of contemporary ideas about art and art theory; apply their analytical and research skills and have discovered ways in which to apply these to their own practice.

Synopsis Students are required to attend one additional class per week, to carry out additional reading and submit one additional assignment for this subject. This subject examines the shift of cultural power from Europe to America and the way in which art and design can play a central role in the formation of cultural identity. Influential movements such as abstract-expressionism, pop art, formalism, conceptual art, performance art, neo-expressionism, and the issues raised by varieties of postmodernism are explored. While still placing art and design within cultural and historical contexts, this subject introduces a more theoretical component to the analysis of postwar movements. Feminist analyses of art, the rewriting of art history and the history of visual culture and the influence of the theory of semiotics are introduced in this subject. Where appropriate, references are made to Australian art and design.

Assessment Tutorial paper: 30%
* Gallery report: 30%
* Essay: 40%

Prescribed texts

Appignanesi R and Garratt C Post-modernism for beginners Icon Books, 1995
Drucker J The visible world: Experimental typography and modern art 1909-1923 U Chicago P, 1994
Gablik S Has modernism failed? Thames and Hudson, 1984
Harrison C and Wood P (eds) Art in theory 1900-1990: An anthology of changing ideas Blackwell, 1993
Margolin V (ed.) Design discourse: History, theory Criticism U Chicago P, 198