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ARHT3617: Modern Art: Europe and the Islamic World
2024 unit information
This unit explores the key role art from the Islamic world played in modern European art. It traces the impact of western art on modern visual culture across the Middle East from the nineteenth century onwards. We explore the new aesthetics of this hybrid visual culture and the cultural politics of its international dissemination, which was fuelled by art dealers and exhibitions. We discuss the cosmopolitan careers of artist-travellers and post-colonial and global theories of art by which to interpret their work. This unit’s expansive geography encompasses the cross-cultural exchanges that transformed modern eastern and western European, American, Persian, Ottoman and Australian cultures.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Art History
| Code | ARHT3617 |
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| Academic unit | Art History |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or (6 credit points at 2000 level in Art History and CASF1001 and CASF1002) |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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ARHT2617 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. exercise sophisticated skills of visual and spatial observation and analysis of works of art, architecture, and visual culture
- LO2. demonstrate understanding of the depth and complexity of art and the relationships between art and specific historical, cultural, and social contexts in a diverse range of global examples
- LO3. exhibit knowledge of the diversity and multiplicity of materials and techniques that comprise art as it is practiced worldwide, and recognise and distinguish between materials and techniques
- LO4. engage with the physical presence and contexts in museums, sites, and other settings of artworks and spaces encountered first hand and in situ
- LO5. use a variety of tools and methods to research artworks and sites, and critically evaluate sources of information about artworks
- LO6. demonstrate specific and in-depth knowledge of particular periods, forms, genres, and areas within the larger field of art history
- LO7. participate actively in communicating and presenting in oral, written, and digital forms
- LO8. explore artworks in their relation to other cultural forms and modes of expression.
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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