Art History and Theory

Description

The School of Art History and Theory is one of Australia's largest and most dynamic centres for research and teaching in art, design and visual culture. The School brings together teaching and research in art and design history and theory, curtorship and arts management, and art criticism.

The postgraduate research degrees - PhD, Master of Art Theory (Hons) and Master of Art Administration (Hons) are a focus of the intellectual life of the School. With fourteen academic staff and more than fifty postgraduate students engaged in diverse research projects, the postgraduate seminar program ensures stimulating dialogue between scholars, artists and designers.

The School's many research interests can be grouped into the following areas:
  • Postcolonial modernism, postmodernnism and contemporary art
  • European and American art history: French impressionism, European modernism, abrstract expressionism
  • Contemporary art of the Asia-Pacific region
  • Art and anthropology
  • Aboriginal art
  • Australian art history
  • Australian contemporary art and craft
  • Art, subjectivity & the body; memory and trauma
  • Curatorship, museology and the arts infrastructure
  • Artistic intention, self-reflective practice and autobiography
  • Theoritical frameworks for visual art and culture



Art History and Theory can be studied as 

Specialisation At the Level of Stream
Art History Research SAHTAR2267
   

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