Unit Code:	ARH2CAO
Alternative Unit Code:	ARH3CAO
Unit Short Title:	CONTEMPORARY ART AND ITS ORIGINS
Credit Points:	20
Unit Description:	In this unit students investigate the art of the recent past: (Australian and international) installation, video, post-conceptual painting, new media, relational art. Contemporary art, as it is called, is now middle aged. We will seek to understand it?s present construction and processes through its history, tracing its origins back to the neo-avant-garde movements of the 1960s and 1970s: Pop, Minimalism, Conceptual art, Process and Systems art, Earth art, Performance, Feminist art. As well as identifying principal concerns contemporary art practice has taken as its subject, we will be looking at its development through an analysis of the workings of the `Art World? as a system.
Prerequisites:	15 credit points of first-year art history
Class Requirements:	one 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week. For a pass in this unit students must normally attend at least 80% of the tutorials
Work Experience Indicator:	Not undertaking work experience in industry
Available to 'Study Abroad' students:	Y

Assessment:

Assessment Type	%	Comments
one 1,000-word exercise	20
one 2,500-word essay	50
one tutorial presentation (1,500-words equivalent)	30

Readings:

Reading Type	Title	Author	Publisher
Recommended	Art since 1900: modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism,	Foster, H. et.al.	Thames & Hudson 2004
Recommended	Contemporary art: a very short introduction,	Stallabrass, J.	Oxford University Press 2006
Recommended	Art in theory 1900-2000,	Harrison, C. and Wood, P. (eds)	Blackwell 2003

Unit Streams:

Teaching Period	Unit Class	Location
2   26-JUL-10   29-OCT-10	Day	BUNDOORA

Unit Coordinators:

Title	First Name	Last Name	Location	Primary Coordinator
Dr	Caroline	Jordan	BUNDOORA	Y