Unit of Study ARTD2004 Art after 1960 (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
Placement

No

Unit description

Explores key debates in art history and visual culture that have been central to a range of post-1960s art practices. Distinctions between Modern, Postmodern and Contemporary art will be addressed through theoretical frameworks such as feminism, post-colonialism, phenomenology, new technology, globalisation, capitalism and digital culture.

Unit content

Postmodernism
Pop Art
Site-specific art
Conceptual Art
Art and Activism
Pictures Generation
Post-structuralism
Critical theory
Feminism
Visual and theoretical analysis

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Online	Term3	N/A

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

articulate the conditions and contradictions of key discourses relevant to post-1960s art and visual culture

articulate the relation between a range of art practices and critical theories relevant to post-1960s art

produce original and historically accurate research that draws from academic sources

summarise the similarities and differences between modern and postmodern art.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Quiz	40%
Project	60%

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Domestic

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