Course

Narratives of Modernity 1850s - 1940s - SAHT1101

Faculty: College of Fine Arts

School: School of Art History and Art Education

Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)

Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Excluded: SAHT9203

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

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Description

This course examines how art, design and media practices responded to the modernist notion of progress exemplified in technological change and urbanization and the consequences of social dislocation and mechanized war. Covering the period from the mid-19th Century to WW2, the course demonstrates the importance of an historical perspective to contemporary culture and society. Topics explored include the development of the moving image, ‘primitivism’ and utopias, international exhibitions, and changing attitudes to modern life expressed in painting, sculpture, photography, graphics and design.
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