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Course Guide: VART3616
Lecturer: Associate Professor Dominic Redfern
Course Coordinator: Associate Professor Dominic Redfern (dominic.redfern@rmit.edu.au)
Day: Fridays
Time: 9.30-11am
Delivery mode: Tutorials are face-to-face only, lectures are delivered online
Location: TBC
What does it mean to mean? How does meaning arise in material culture, and how has this question been approached in the western tradition? Over the course we consider this problem from a variety of vantage points: material culture as language; material culture as feeling; material culture as an extension of the body; material culture as form. This frame allows us to take in a number of elements of history that have affected our understanding of what art does: the linguistic turn that was so influential on twentieth century-culture and thinking; the history of modernism seen through a variety of lenses; the relationship of culture to philosophy since the renaissance; and the relationship of culture to embodiment before and after feminism. We weave the threads together with themes emerging and re-emerging across the weeks to build a series of interrelated narratives and contrasting positions that problematise and deepen our relationship to our making.
NOTES: Do not enrol in Critical Frameworks A and B at the same time, as they cover the same lecture content in the same semester.
This lecture series was previously offered in Sem 2, 2021 and 2022 and 2023. If you studied Critical Frameworks in that semester, we don’t recommend you enrol in this course.