VSA4012 - Visual Culture and Its Theories

Leader(s): Dr Daniel Palmer

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit is designed to equip honours students with critical and theoretical skills appropriate to the study of art history and visual culture at an advanced level. Topics to be considered will include theories of the image, representation and meaning, the operation of ideology, especially in relation to race and gender, social theories (including Marxist and neo-Marxist accounts), applications of psychoanalysis to the visual field, postmodernism and its critiques, cyberculture, and recent theorisations of visual culture.

Assessment

First essay (2500 words): 25%
Seminar paper (2500 words): 25%
Second essay (4000 words): 50%

Contact hours

3 hours (1 x 3 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions

VSA 3010