VAD4030

Themes in nineteenth-century Australian art

Proposed to be offered next in 1999

Leigh Astbury

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 course 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 First seminar paper (2500 words): 25%
* Second seminar paper (3000 words): 35%
* Essay (3500 words): 40%

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