After Modern Sculpture: Installation, Structures and Space - SAHT2667

   
   
   
 
Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


This course examines the radical changes in sculptural practices from the mid-1960s to the present. Movements to be analysed include: Fluxus, Arte Povera, Minimalism, Land Art, Postmodernism, and emerging trends such as Designer-Artists (Jorge Pardo, Andrea Zittel). Particular attention will be given to the emergence of installation art and the questioning of the integrity of the art object. The course aims are: to trace and examine the historical and philosophical understandings of late modern, postmodern and contemporary spatial and sculptural practices; to consider how these practices relate to conceptions of time, space and subjectivity and; to examine two recurrent themes in the discussion of installation: the total work of art and the spectacle.