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ARHT3617: Modern Art: Europe and the Islamic World
2024 unit information
This unit explores the key role art from the Islamic world played in modern European art. It traces the impact of western art on modern visual culture across the Middle East from the nineteenth century onwards. We explore the new aesthetics of this hybrid visual culture and the cultural politics of its international dissemination, which was fuelled by art dealers and exhibitions. We discuss the cosmopolitan careers of artist-travellers and post-colonial and global theories of art by which to interpret their work. This unit’s expansive geography encompasses the cross-cultural exchanges that transformed modern eastern and western European, American, Persian, Ottoman and Australian cultures.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Art History |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or (6 credit points at 2000 level in Art History and CASF1001 and CASF1002) |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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ARHT2617 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Deepen knowledge about the role of cross-cultural encounters in the transformation of modern European, American, Persian, Ottoman and Australian visual cultures from the nineteenth century to the present day.
- LO2. Develop and refine skills of visual analysis and oral and written skills in formulating an argument about works of art.
- LO3. Develop an historical understanding of debates around orientalism and Islamic art in order to engage in current debates about this topic
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