DCMS://ARTS100_Contemporary Australian Arts/
Contact: Dr Guy Morrow
Email: guy.morrow@humn.mq.edu.au
Room: W6A 618
Phone: 9850-8310
Credit points: 3
Offered: D1 Day; Offered in first half-year
Prerequisites:
NCCW: SOC100
This course aims to build and nurture Australia's cultural capital though educating students in the creative arts field. This will both increase the consumption of the contemporary arts in Australia and participation in this exciting and meaningful field. Students will also gain cultural capital through doing the course. This is a form of value. It enriches one's life, and, although it is harder to understand than economic or social capital, it is valuable and it is a way that people differentiate themselves from one another. Furthermore, when one is being creative they often feel as though they are living more fully than they do during the rest of life. Indeed, this course offers students ideas that will help them to become more artistically creative.
This aim will be realised through a consideration of various ideas that have influenced the creation of visual art and photography, music, theatre, dance, literature as well as the management of this creativity. Through doing the course, students will begin to understand the differences between the following paradigms of thought:
Modernity
Postmodernity
Contemporary
An overarching theme for this course involves a consideration of the artistic meaning that these different ideas generate. The differences between essential meaning and relative meaning need to be understood in order to understand the contemporary and therefore this course considers art history as well.