Course Title: Context And Culture Level 4
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2009
Course Code: VART5144
Course Title: Context And Culture Level 4
School: 340T Art
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5048 - Diploma of Arts (Visual Arts)
Course Contact : Kellyann Geurts
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4472
Course Contact Email:kellyann.geurts@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Anthony Riccardi
Nominal Hours: 48
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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
VART5143 – Context & Culture Level 3
Course Description
In this course students evaluate their own work in terms of aesthetics, social context and philosophical foundations.
Context and Culture Level 4 extends and consolidates the individual’s art practice through developing a range of research techniques and applying research directly to practice. Students enter into a theoretical discourse with their developing art practice with the intention of enriching and broadening the work; enlisting their research as a significant tool in making of the work. Students view a range of international and national art practice with an emphasis on viewing the work directly (when possible) and utilising a range of research tools (i.e. internet, periodicals) to view other works. Students document their research, and the application of that research in their practice, in a paper, which accompanies their visual journal. Within Context and Culture the arts are viewed in a broad contextual sense and notions of social issues and integration are emphasised.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
VBS654 Context And Culture Level 4 |
Learning Outcomes
1. Critically evaluate one’s own work in terms of:
• aesthetics
• techniques
• social context
• philosophical foundations
2. Prepare for an exhibition exhibiting work from practical areas of study
3. Evaluate exhibition of one’s own work.
Details of Learning Activities
Delivery of the module is via lecture and class discussion with AV support
Teaching Schedule
Week 1: Introduction to Context and Culture 4
Week 2: Introduction to Aesthetics
Week 3: The Creative Process
Week 4: the Creative Process cont.
Week 5: Aesthetics from the Renaissance to the 1800’s
Week 6: Aesthetics - From Romanticism to Modern Art
Week 7: Aesthetics - Post Modernism
Week 8: Art Deco
Week 9: The Museum in History
Week 11: Contemporary Art Museums
Week 12: Ideas Regarding Creativity through History 1
Week 13: ideas regarding Creativity through History 2
Week 14: Criticism 1
Week 15: Criticism
Week 16: Revision and class discussion
Week 17-18: Assessment
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
Two exhibition reviews - 40% each
Theory Journal – 20%
Assessment Tasks
I x Essay on Own work
Assessment Matrix
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