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Visual Countercultures: Graffiti, Kitsch and Conceptual Art

Undergraduate | MAQ-MECX223 | 2019

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Reframe your understanding of high and 'low' art by examining countercultures. Zoom in on the political influences of camp, kitsch and bad taste art. Critique the concept of value in visual art forms. Consider how graffiti and public spaces interact

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
No ATAR needed,
No prior study
Duration
-

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Visual Countercultures: Graffiti, Kitsch and Conceptual Art

About this subject

  • At the completion of this subject students will have developed the following skills:

    1. Demonstrate critical skills, informed by cultural theories, that will enable students to re-evaluate those practices of everyday life that are too often dismissed as worthless or ephemeral.
    2. Develop analytical skills that will enable students to examine and critique the presuppositions that constitute those hierarchies of value that classify, judge and position cultural objects and practices.
    3. Develop research skills that will enable students to present theorised, contextualised and informed accounts of key issues and problems in the context of subcultural and counter-visual practices.
    4. Demonstrate communication skills in order effectively and creatively to present research.
    5. Employ cultural literacy skills that will educate students on the importance of issues of cultural difference and ethical relations across diverse social and political contexts.

Entry requirements

No entry requirements

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

  • MAQ-CLT220 (Not currently available)

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
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