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University of Western Australia - Art of the Reformation

This unit addresses the complexity of new bourgeois societies in northern Europe as represented in the art of the aristocratic court culture of France and England and the Protestant societies of England and Holland. It pursues the themes of art academies, the inspiration of science, exploration and trade, depictions of the nude and the way in which the new comforts of everyday bourgeois life are qualified by religious presentiments of death. Discussion includes the works of Van Dyke, Frans Hals, Vermeer and Rembrandt.
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University of Western Australia - Art and Games: From Dada to Data

This unit traces the influence of games on art and artists from early twentieth-century dada to twenty-first-century data technologies. The history and theoretical underbelly of the interconnection between art and games is discussed. Particular attention is devoted to the role games have played in art as counter-cultural systems; the way games have been appropriated and created in art and the way they have been used as accessible vehicles for the articulation of wider social, political and cultural issues.
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University of Western Australia - The Big Picture: Recurring Themes in Western Art and Architecture

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University of Western Australia - Art: Special Studies

This unit offers specialised studies in visual art, varied from year to year, and is taught by professionals in the nominated areas of the study. Information on the topics available, and the semester in which they are available, are posted on the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts noticeboards.
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University of Western Australia - Art, Place and Identity

This unit traces the emergence of landscape as an important genre of Western art in the post-Renaissance period, and the roles it played in shaping modern discourses of place, identity and nationhood. The focus is on nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscape art. Topics include the development of landscape art, the importance of colonialism in the landscape tradition, the relationship between landscape art and national discourses of identity, and contemporary approaches to the use of landscape in art. Of particular concern is a comparative study of how landscape art developed in Australia, the USA and Europe.
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University of Western Australia - Art after Theory

This unit investigates the philosophies and practices of avant-garde movements of the twentieth century, including futurism, constructivism, suprematism, dada, surrealism and situationism. It looks at the way that art history has debated these movements, and investigates the origins of terms such as avant-garde, anti-art, revolution, unconscious and subconscious, praxis and automatism. It brings the manifestos and concepts of the avant-gardes into historical, political and aesthetic contexts. It also investigates their impact on later twentieth-century art, with the developments of retro-avant-gardism, the neo-avant-garde debate, and controversies over the origins of the artist. Week-by-week investigations of different historical movements open up these debates and give students an overview of the problems that the notion of avant-garde brought to twentieth-century art and its histories. These problems include the place of theory in the production of art; the place of women in art; the artist as leader of society; art as itself a force for social change, and conversely of society itself as a work of art. From history the unit moves into theory and back again.
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University of Western Australia - Painting into Film: the Reversed Canvas from Velazquez to Antonioni

This unit investigates new themes associated with paintings of the backs of paintings from the eighteenth century onwards. The unit begins with lectures on the detailed critical and aesthetic reception of Velazquez's 'Las Meninas' since its rediscovery in the nineteenth century to its revision by Picasso. Several aspects of the painting are traced through later painting and film: the fate of the idea of Western painting in colonies and non-Western countries; the gendered aspect of its parallel between painting and dynastic succession in works by women and gay men; the role of backs in studios serving as 'back rooms' from which the affairs of the world are either amplified or banished; the fate of backs of paintings in cubist, abstract and minimalist art; the role of backs as symbols of a conquered medium in film and television.
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University of Western Australia - Feminist Interventions in Art

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University of Western Australia - Feminist Theory and Practice

This unit serves as an introduction to contemporary feminist art history, criticism and theory. It focuses on the various contributions that the debate around feminism has made to the methodologies of art historians and to critical theory. Several seminars are devoted to an examination of feminist accounts of the Western visual tradition. The unit also offers an account of the development and range of recent feminist theory, criticism, scholarship and art practice. Among the issues debated are contemporary constructions of desire and visual culture, pornography, psychoanalytic theory, and the conjunction of feminism and postmodernism.
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University of Western Australia - Art of Drawing 2

This unit explores the premise that drawing is intellectually, psychologically and sensually gratifying. A series of lectures, tutorials and practical sessions considers the significance of drawing in contemporary culture. It focuses on two central artistic themes including the representation of space and the transcription of the body in space. The practical sessions explore relevant technical and material forms instrumental for the expressive function of both drawing and the subject.
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University of Western Australia - Film Noir to the New Wave

Growing out of a fascination with pulp fiction and the prolific 'B' films produced during the pre-war period in America, the Film Noir cycle is a unique example of a truly indigenous American cultural form. From the 1940s, Film Noir provided the 'black slate' on which Hollywood inscribed American social paranoia of the unknown. Fascinated by the formal qualities of these films, the young French cineastes and critics centred around the Cahiers du Cinema formulated a series of critical strategies to reform the nature of conventional cinema. This unit examines a number of selected feature films from the American Film Noir cycle as a foundation on which the various strategies of the early French New Wave can be dissected and studied. Auteur and genre-based critical approaches of the cinema are examined through the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut and in relation to the theories of both filmmakers (as well as Andre Bazin, Alexandre Astruc, Christian Metz and others). This unit also provides students involved in film/video production with a conceptual and historical framework of ideas to reference.
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University of Western Australia - Pop Art

The emergence of Pop Art in Britain and America is often presented as arising from a confluence of cultural, economic and social conditions after a period of pronounced austerity during and immediately after World War II. This unit deals with the development and continuing history of Pop Art and attempts to expose a more subtle and complicated account by giving consideration to a range of themes and issues. Through a detailed investigation of works by artists such as Warhol, Wesselmann, Hamilton and Koons, a number of themes are addressed: representational participation in the definition of the economy of domestic life in the United States; construction of sexuality and gendered identities; and the position of art in the culture of late capitalism. In addition to attending lectures and tutorials, students are expected to attend weekly film screenings.
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University of Western Australia - Nineteenth-century British Art

This unit examines the art of 1837 to 1901 in the context of the prevailing social, economic and political concerns of the Victorian era. Major themes such as emigration, love and marriage, the fallen woman, physiognomy, the class structure, work, travel and exploration, childhood, death, philanthropy, and the poor are considered in relation to the broader concerns of the day and in relation to the morals, ideas, prejudices and paradoxes of the Victorian age. Attention is also given to the widely debated relationship between art and society, and to the role that visual imagery such as advertising, book illustration and photography played in Victorian society.
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University of Western Australia - Film: Materialist Avant-Garde

Explorations of the unique properties of the film medium have stimulated filmmakers since the earliest period of the cinema. Tracing these developments historically, this unit examines the initial material and perceptual-based experiments of the European inter-war period to the late modernist global avant-garde of the 1970s and 80s. Beginning with the early works of Richter, Man Ray, Lye, Fischenger (and others) the unit examines the New American Cinema works of Brakhage, Anger, Frampton (and others) to the point at which the global ascendancy of structural film was confirmed with the films of Kubelka, Le Grice, Gidal, Snow (and others). Various mitigating relationships between technological developments, aesthetic strategies, theoretical texts and critical frameworks are examined in the context of films presented within the unit. The unit also provides students involved in film/video production with a conceptual and historical framework of ideas.
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University of Western Australia - History of Industrial Design

This unit surveys the development of design for industry from its origins as part of the revolution in mass manufacturing of the mid nineteenth century to the beginning of the modern consumer design age. It also introduces students to the work of major critics, historians and theorists of design including Ruskin, Dresser, Morris, Gropius, Pevsner and Banham. A unique feature of the unit is the weekly use of works in the design and craft collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
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University of Western Australia - Film: Imagist Avant-Garde

Since the earliest period of the cinema avant-gardist filmmakers have explored metaphoric correlations between the visual image and music and poetry. The polemic of the early dada and surrealist works by Leger, Clair, Dulac and Bunuel/Dali led to a more concerted exploration of the expressive nature of avant-garde film by Deren, Brakhage, Anger (and others) during the early period of the New American Cinema. Through lectures, screenings and tutorial-based discussion, this unit examines avant-gardist imagist films and critical texts that developed in the inter-war and post-war periods. This unit also provides students involved in film/video production with a conceptual and historical framework of ideas.
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University of Western Australia - Art of Sculpture

A series of lectures, site visits and scheduled workshops introduce the practice, history and theory of contemporary sculpture and site-based art. The unit explores the common ground between state art, monuments, public art, memorials, and site-specific situations, including installation and land art. By studying the major developments of late twentieth-century three-dimensional art practices, the unit examines how they might be manifested in local contexts. It makes a particular study of selected local practices, for example, recent projects such as the Antony Gormley installation at Lake Ballard, the activities of International Art Space Kellerberrin, and the program for commissioning public artworks in Western Australia. Students are also introduced to some primary modes of sculptural fabrication including modelling, mould making, wood and metal fabrication and digital scanning and processing.
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University of Western Australia - Transcultural Desires

This unit introduces ways of understanding Western modernism in non-Eurocentric ways. To a degree unmatched by any other period in art, European modernism is a product of foreign rather than indigenous traditions. European and Australian modernist art are discussed as an integral part of the European colonial project. Topics discussed include postcolonial art and theory, the formation of early European modernism in the context of non-European art and cultural practices, the development of modernism in European settler colonies, and the globalising imperatives of recent postmodernist, postcolonial and indigenous art.
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University of Western Australia - Video Art

Video art emerged as a vital vehicle for contemporary art due to developments in technology during the 1960s. Early video art explored a wide range of strategies to critique the proliferation of commercial television and the object-based infrastructure of institutional art. Video art has a rich history of production that has constantly engaged new forms of technology. This unit investigates the various historical orientations of video art—the documentation of performance-based actions, the construction of video sculptures, installations and environments, the advent of YouTube, as well as discrete screen-based works. Through selected works by Paik, Hall, Sinden, Graham, Viola, Hill, Douglas, Parr, Piccininni, Beacroft (and others), the unit examines the unique history of contemporary video-based art through screenings, lectures and tutorials.
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University of Western Australia - The Grand Tour: Visual Contrasts from the Age of Enlightenment to the Era of Mass Tourism

This unit investigates the power of contrasts in the art and literature of the (mainly) British Grand Tour to Italy to articulate a changing sense of fundamental oppositions between here and there, then and now, over four centuries of travel. It addresses the works of John Evelyn, Joseph Addison, Canaletto, Piranesi, Richard Wilson, Thomas Jones, Goethe, Stendhal, William Hazlitt, Turner, Samuel Palmer, Pugin, Ruskin, Gustave Doré, Alma Tadema, Freud, Adrian Stokes, William Gibson and John Cleese.
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University of Western Australia - American Visual Culture

This unit examines the role of visual culture in twentieth-century America. A comprehensive range of visual forms, film, painting, architecture, photography, television and advertising are discussed within the context of a changing political, social, economic and technological landscape. By taking an iconographical and contextual approach, the unit seeks to explore the character and historical dimensions of American imagery. One of its key aspects is to explore the ways in which the visual environment became increasingly important to the construction of American cultural identity while simultaneously engendering a sense of disinherited 'American-ness'.
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University of Western Australia - The Body in Art

The human body has long been the central subject of Western art. This unit discusses theories of the body and representation in the context of Western art practices. A wide range of art practices and subjects are referred to, including the idealism of classical Greek sculpture, the impact of anatomical and medical practices on fine art in the Renaissance period, the relationship between pornographic images and fine art, and the frank exploration of sexuality and gender that occurs in many contemporary representations of the body.
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University of Western Australia - Art in the Environment

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University of Western Australia - Art, Alchemy and Shamanism

This unit introduces students to the various strategies that have been employed by artists from pre-Christian times to the present in their attempts to render a spiritual presence. It explores how the differing conceptual frameworks throughout history have necessitated the creation of new means of figuring the 'spiritual'. It focuses on the romantic imagination as the most successful theoretical basis on which to think through the complex problem of spiritual presence. The unit provides an overview of the way in which a range of traditional sources have been incorporated by contemporary artists in their quest to render a spiritual presence.
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University of Western Australia - Art: Studio Investigations 1

This unit explores the operation of visual image, process and structure through an interconnected study of the various media. Techniques, methodologies and approaches associated with visual arts practice and contemporary ideas are investigated through a series of structured projects. The framework for each project introduces students to representational and non-representational ways of working.
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