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Introduction to Art and Design Theory 1A
Enrolment code: FST101
Offered: Hbt: sem 1,
Unit description:
Introduces students to the language used by art and design theorists in the analysis of
visual culture. Some of the main terms to be discussed include the following: allegory; the
sublime; formalism; the grotesque; public art; orientalism; primitivism; realism; classicism;
the gaze; intentionalism and the frame. The unit provides students with a sound working
knowledge of the concepts informing discussion of the arts in contemporary culture. Each
week the tutorial groups discuss two visual images which relate to the particular lecture
topics. During the semester, students are expected to write five short commentaries for
designated tutorials; these commentaries form the basis for discussion.
Staff: Dr L Negrin, Assoc Prof JH Holmes, Ms M Kunda
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr Art Forum, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Assess: 4x500-word papers (50%), 1,000-word paper (25%), end-of-sem slide test,
attendance and participation (25%)
Required: Atkins R, Artspeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords,
Abbeville Press Publ, NY, 1990
Atkins R, Artspoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords, Abbeville Press
Publ, NY, 1993
Majors: Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: [F3E] [S3T] [R3T] [F3R]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Introduction to Art and Design Theory 1B
Enrolment code: FST102
Offered: Hbt: sem 2,
Unit description:
Examines innovative and significant aspects of 20th century art and design, focusing in
particular on the period of modernism from about 1880 to 1940. The unit concentrates on
some of the major terms which came into prominence during this period including the
following: modernism; abstraction, kitsch; functionalism; feminism; constructivism;
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futurism; collage; parody; surrealism and expressionism. Each week, the tutorial groups
discuss and analyse a manifesto, review or article written by a modernist artist, critic or
theorist which relates to the particular lecture topics.
Staff: Dr L Negrin, Assoc Prof JH Holmes, Ms M Kunda
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr Art Forum, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: FST101
Assess: 750-word paper (20%), 1,000-word paper (25%), 1,250-word paper (30%),
end-of-sem slide test, attendance and participation (25%)
Required: Atkins R, Artspeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords,
Abbeville Press Publ, NY, 1990
Atkins R, Artspoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords, Abbeville Press
Publ, NY, 1993
Majors: Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: [F3E] [S3T] [R3T] [F3R]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Art and Design Theory 2/3
Enrolment code: FST200/300
Offered: Hbt: sem 1,
Special note: compulsory unit for students enrolled in Bachelor of Fine Arts
Unit description:
Is the core year-2 or year-3 unit, which explores a range of theoretical issues confronting
visual artists and designers in late modernism (1940-1970 approx) and investigates the
relationship between artistic theory and practice. Some of the theorists covered include
Jean-Paul Sartre, Clement Greenberg, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Susan Sontag,
Lawrence Alloway, Roland Barthes, Penny Sparke, Linda Nochlin, George Bataille, Laura
Mulvey, Michael Fried and Leo Steinberg. Tutorial papers and discussions focus on the
way in which many of the theoretical ideas under investigation were manifested in works
of visual art and design. Students can expect to study a number of the significant late
modern art and design movements as well as the work of a wide range of individual
practitioners.
Staff: Assoc Prof JH Holmes, Dr L Negrin, Ms M Kunda
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr Art Forum, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: FST101, FST102
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Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), 500-word annotated bibliography (10%), tutorial
presentation and participation with associated 1,500-word tutorial paper (30%)
Required: Harrison C & Wood P (eds), Art in Theory, 1900–1990: an anthology of changing
ideas, Blackwell, Oxf, 1992.
Recommend: Frascina F & Harris J (eds), Art in Modern Culture: An Anthology of Critical
Texts, Phaidon, Lond, 1992
Majors: Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: [F3E] [R3T] [F3R]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Australian Art of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s
Enrolment code: FST201/301
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Unit description:
Covers certain key survey exhibitions of the period, beginning with The Field in 1968 and
including others such as the Sydney Biennale, Perspecta and a range of exhibitions of
Australian art shown overseas. All visual arts disciplines are studied using much
contemporary source material, including exhibition catalogues, recent journal articles and
newspaper clippings. A study booklet with extensive topic bibliographies is provided at
the beginning of the semester.
Staff: Assoc Prof JH Holmes
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr Art Forum, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% level 100 Art Theory
Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), 500-word exhibition proposal (10%), tutorial presentation
with associated 1,500-word tutorial paper (30%)
Required: Taylor P (ed), Anything Goes: Art in Australia, 1970–1980, Art & Text, Sth Yarra,
1984
Butler R, What is Appropriation? An Anthology of Critical Writings on Australian Art in the 80s
and 90s, Power Pubs and IMA, Syd, 1996
Majors: Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: [F3E] [R3T]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Postmodernism and Visual Culture
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Enrolment code: FST203/303
Offered: Hbt: sem 1,
Unit description:
In the last few decades there has been widespread questioning of the conception and
ideals of art which underlay the modernist project in the first half of the 20th century. This
challenge has led to a search for new cultural forms which transcend the boundaries
between high art and mass culture and to a critical examination of the role of the arts and
the artist in modern society. This unit examines the key issues facing artists and critics in
the postmodern era. Topics covered include: the death of the author; postmodern pastiche;
critiques of the museum as an institution, and, the commodification of art.
Staff: Dr L Negrin
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr Art Forum, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% level 100 Art Theory
Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), tutorial presentation with associated 2,000-word tutorial
paper (40%)
Recommend: Wallis B (ed), Art After Modernism, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY,
1988
Majors: Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: [F3E] [R3T]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Picturing the Wilderness
Enrolment code: FST205/305
Offered: Hbt: summer-sch
Special note: offered as a summer school unit only
Unit description:
Looks at the history and theory of landscape art with particular emphasis being given to
the ways in which artists have worked with wilderness and natural environment themes.
While it will be historical in nature the unit will also offer students the opportunity to
consider the role of the visual arts in current environmental debates.
Staff: Assoc Prof JH Holmes (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: introductory 2-hr seminar + 3x1-hr lectures and 3x1-hr tutorials weekly (4
wks)
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Prereq: 25% level 100 Art Theory
Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), 500-word annotated bibliography (10%), tutorial
presentation with associated 1,500-word tutorial paper (30%)
Required: Mitchell WJT (ed), Landscape and Power, Univ Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994
Majors: Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: [F3E] [R3T] [S3T]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Contemporary Craft and Design
Enrolment code: FST206/306
Offered: Hbt: sem 2,
Unit description:
Looks at ideas and influences which have shaped craft and design practice in the post-war
period. Topics include the emergence of the crafts movement in Australia; regionalism
versus internationalism in Australian craft and design; the role of design in manufacturing
and in the media; ornament and the feminine; re-evaluation of the ‘female’ crafts; humour
in design; new materials in design; virtual reality and design.
Staff: Assoc Prof JH Holmes, Dr L Negrin, Ms M Kunda and part-time staff
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr Art Forum, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% level 100 Art Theory
Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), 500-word annotated bibliography (10%), tutorial
presentation with associated 1,500-word tutorial paper (30%)
Majors: Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: [F3E] [R3T]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Fashioning the Body
Enrolment code: FST207/307
Offered: Hbt: sem 2
Special note: may be taken as a Women’s Studies unit; offered in odd-numbered years
Unit description:
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The unit focuses on the body as a site of cultural transformation, investigating the various
ways in which the body has been moulded and adorned in accordance with culturally
defined ideals. It covers such topics as facial decoration, hairstyling, tattooing,
scarification, the slender body, the muscular body, cosmetic surgery, and male and female
dress.
Staff: Dr L Negrin
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr Art Forum, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% level 100 Art Theory or 25% level 100 Women’s Studies
Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), tutorial presentation with associated 2,000-word tutorial
paper (40%)
Recommend: Craik J, The Face of Fashion, Routledge, Lond & NY, 1994
Majors: Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: [F3E] [R3T]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Surrealist Art Between the Wars
Enrolment code: FST211/311
Offered: Hbt: sem 2,
Special note: offered in odd-numbered years
Unit description:
The Surrealist Movement had a profound impact in the second quarter of the 20th century.
One author has described the movement as a ‘universally intelligible plea for the revival of
the imagination based upon the unconscious as revealed by psychoanalysis, together with
a new emphasis on magic, accident, irrationality, symbols and dreams’. The unit looks at
the large number of literary and theoretical documents associated with Surrealism as well
as analysing Surrealism’s direct impact in the various visual arts. Although there is an
emphasis upon media such as painting, photography, sculpture, film and drawing, there
is also an extensive coverage of the other graphic arts, design and fashion.
Staff: Ms M Kunda
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr Art Forum, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% level 100 Art Theory
Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), illustrated journal of no more than 20 pages (10%), tutorial
presentation with associated 1,500-word tutorial paper (30%)
Majors: Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
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Courses: [F3E] [R3T]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Contemporary Art of the Asia-Pacific Region
Enrolment code: FST213/313
Offered: Hbt: sem 2,
Unit description:
Introduces students to the diversity and cultural significance of the visual arts in the
Asia-Pacific region during the past two decades. In particular the unit focuses on the
critical debate which has emerged in association with survey exhibitions such as the
Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Brisbane) and others in South-East Asia,
Japan, China and the Indian sub-continent. Topics, such as art and politics, art of the
diaspora, and globalisation and national identity, are considered. Through illustrated
lectures and materials, students can expect to be introduced to the art and ideas of a large
number of contemporary artists working within the region.
Staff: Assoc Prof JH Holmes
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr Art Forum, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% level 100 Art Theory
Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), 500-word exhibition proposal (10%), tutorial presentation
with associated 1,500-word tutorial paper (30%)
Majors: Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: [F3E] [R3T]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Imaging the Body
Enrolment code: FST214/314
Offered: not offered in 2003
Special note: may be taken as a Women’s Studies unit; offered in even-numbered years
Unit description:
Analyses the various ways in which the body has been depicted in Western visual culture,
examining the changing social and cultural meanings which have been invested in the
body both in past and in contemporary imagery. The unit covers such topics as: the
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portrait; the female and male nude; non-Western bodies; the mechanical body; the
medicalised body; the body as political symbol and the sacred body.
Staff: Dr L Negrin
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr Art Forum, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% level 100 Art Theory or equiv
Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), tutorial presentation with associated 2,000-word tutorial
paper (40%)
Recommend: Adler K & Pointon M (eds), The Body Imaged: The Human Form and Visual
Culture Since the Renaissance, CUP, 1993
Mirzoeff N, Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure, Routledge, 1995.
Majors: Women<sqt>s Studies
Courses: [F3E] [R3T]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Electronic Media and the Visual Arts
Enrolment code: FST215/315
Offered: not offered in 2003
Special note: offered in even-numbered years
Unit description:
Examines the place of art and design in a technological world. The unit traces the cultural
and aesthetic effects of recent developments in mass communications (the internet, the
world wide web, digital imaging), and examines the impact of new media on image
making, performance work, video and installation, design and graphics and exhibition
practices.
Staff: Ms M Kunda
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr Art Forum, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% level 100 Art Theory
Assess: 2,500-word essay (60%), 500-word annotated bibliography (10%), tutorial
presentation with associated 1,500-word tutorial paper (30%)
Majors: Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: [F3E] [R3T]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
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Professional Practice (Writing Skills)
Enrolment code: FST216/316
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Unit description:
Communication skills underpin professional visual arts practice in curating and
promoting exhibitions, seeking project grants and sponsorship, and in criticism and
reviews. Through gallery visits and practical exercises, the unit familiarises students with
professional opportunities and available resources for visual arts, and how these can be
used in project development. Writing skills are honed through group activities in a
workshop environment, with an emphasis on planning, analysis and revision in
developing project concepts and in the writing process.
Staff: Ms M Kunda
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr seminar, 1-hr Art Forum weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% level 100 Art Theory
Assess: 500-word review (20%), 500-word exhibition proposal (20%), 2,500-word catalogue
essay (35%), workbook (25%)
Majors: Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: [F3E] [R3T]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Professional Practice (Business Skills)
Enrolment code: FST217/317
Offered: Hbt: sem 2
Unit description:
Professional Practice is the term accepted within visual arts to describe the broad range of
‘ancillary’ skills, concepts and practices that complement an artist or designer’s
professional creative practice. These include: aspects of small business management –
administration and bookkeeping, etc; (visual, craft and design) arts administration,
systems and infrastructure; public and private funding and sponsorship; marketing and
promotion; taxation especially GST and FBT; introduction to industrial relations; public
and private gallery operations; and a range of other related issues.
Staff: Prof N Frankham
Unit weight: 12.5%
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Teaching pattern: 2-hr seminar, 1-hr Art Forum weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 50% level 200 BFA and 25% Art Theory level 200
Assess: 2,000-word essay (50%), seminar presentation and associated 1,000-word paper
(25%), workbook (25%)
Majors: Art and Design Theory (Hobart)
Courses: [F3E] [R3T]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
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