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Course Guide: VART3616
Lecturer: A/Prof Dominic Redfern
Course Coordinator: A/Prof Dominic Redfern (dominic.redfern@rmit.edu.au)
Day: Fridays
Time: 9.30-11:00
Delivery mode: Tutorials are face-to-face only, lectures are delivered online
Location: TBC
So, there’s you, and then there’s everything else. With use this in mind we divide this lecture series into exploring models of subjectivity – that’s you – throughout the modern period and their various assaults on our received notions of selfhood. Of course, not everyone gets to decide for themselves who they will be, and so we explore theoretical models that have attempted to address the subject position of those who have been assigned to play ‘other’ to the privileged white male. We look at feminist art and ideas, and their heritage in post humanism as well as theories of the ‘other’ as developed through post-colonialism here and elsewhere. To address everything external to the self – that’s the everything else – we also take in a variety of models of realism over the last 170 years of art history and theory as they attempt to address the world external to our thoughts and representations and how we might approach it.
This lecture series was previously offered in Sem 1, Year 2021 and 2022 and 2023. If you studied Critical Frameworks in that semester, we don’t recommend you enrol in this course.
Do not enrol in Critical Frameworks A and B at the same time, as they cover the same lecture content in the same semester.