PARIS AND NEW YORK: ART OF THE AVANT-GARDE
ARH3APK
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
In this subject students survey the major art movements of twentieth-century European, American and Australian modernism, focusing on the modern art centres of Paris and New York. Studies include Fauvism, Cubism and Dada from the early century through Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual art in the postwar period and up to Postmodernism. Students will develop skills in visual analysis and the use of primary sources to achieve an understanding of the history of modern art and the key concept of the avant-garde.
School: School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Lisa Beaven
Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG
Exchange Students: Yes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: 30 credit points of second-year History and/or Art History
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: ARH2APK, ARH1APK
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Special conditions: N/A
Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes
01. Assess the balance of continuity and change in a past, and show how present contexts, including their own, can alter views of art in a past.
- Activities:
- All.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Ethical & Cultural Awareness(Ethical & Cultural Awareness)
- Writing(Writing)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
02. Identify and reflect on the use of visual sources which the student has found or which other historians have found.
- Activities:
- All.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Writing(Writing)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Ethical & Cultural Awareness(Ethical & Cultural Awareness)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
03. Reflect explicitly on the use of primary sources: the student's own, and other art historians'.
- Activities:
- Analysis of Modernist work in NGV and the Major Essay.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Writing(Writing)
- Ethical & Cultural Awareness(Ethical & Cultural Awareness)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
04. Reflect on strengths and weaknesses of other art historians' accounts when constructing their own art historical account.
- Activities:
- Analysis of Modernist work in NGV and the Major Essay.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Writing(Writing)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Ethical & Cultural Awareness(Ethical & Cultural Awareness)
05. Review disciplinary skills in the context of a sustained art history inquiry directed to a specific audience.
- Activities:
- All.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Ethical & Cultural Awareness(Ethical & Cultural Awareness)
- Writing(Writing)
06. Write responses to an aspect of the past which offer a sustained line of argument or narrative, referenced in an accomplished manner, which respond to many secondary and primary sources.
- Activities:
- Analysis of Modernist work in NGV and the Major Essay.
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Writing(Writing)
- Ethical & Cultural Awareness(Ethical & Cultural Awareness)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)