The World in Twenty Art Works

In examining a range of exceptional artworks of many different types and drawn from many cultures and periods, this subject explores how art can be a window into different times, peoples and places across the world, as well as into our own beliefs and the contemporary world. Each lecture will focus on one artwork from a watershed moment in the history of art. Artworks examined will include a wide range of media: from altarpieces to photography, painting to sculpture, and architecture to decorative arts. As well as introducing students to current issues in art history and visual studies, and to a wide variety of art practices, mediums and traditions seen through multiple perspectives, it will equip students with a toolkit for examining, understanding and writing about artworks. The subject is taught by a team of scholars from the University of Melbourne art history program. On completing the subject students will have acquired basic skills in the analysis of art, including an understanding of the principal issues and methodologies in the discipline of art history. Students will also have been introduced to the breadth, diversity and shared concerns of diverse cultures and histories.

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• 1Recognise motivations for making visual art during different time periods and across different world cultures.
• 2Apply knowledge of different cultures to the interpretation of works of visual art.
• 3Visually analyse artworks in terms of material properties and formal elements.
• 4Compare and contrast artworks produced in different historical and cultural contexts.
• 5Evaluate art historical literature, distinguishing authors' methodologies and summarising their main arguments.
• 6Formulate a written argument that integrates themes and issues common to artworks from different historical and cultural contexts.