Art History

This course offers a study of contemporary art movements and the social, political, and economic context in which they developed. It analyzes works of art, from the origins of contemporary art in the mid-19th century to the present day, alongside corresponding primary sources and art history texts.

This is the first part of a two-semester course covering the period from the 15th and 17th centuries. It focuses on Renaissance and Baroque periods. Rather than the global and idealizing point of view, often confining to the "family novel" of the great heroic artists, it places greater emphasis on a whole series of problems, artistic and inartistic, considered as sensitive questions: problems of space, place of Antiquity, religious devotion, funerary practices, political images, mannerisms and bodily movements, and mannerism and technique. In other words, a history of forms and styles allows a deeper questioning of the profound inventiveness of the visual productions of the Renaissance and the Baroque age.

In this course, students examine the art and visual culture of Australia's Indigenous people. Students are introduced to fundamental cultural concepts that are significant to Aboriginal people in terms of their visual culture and art-making. Ancient rock art, bark painting, post-contact art, and urban-based contemporary art are examined and discussed.

This course examines theories of museum informatization, including introduction; digital management of museum collections; digital museums (including digital tour/on-site multimedia display content and online exhibition digital methods); theories and technologies of the museum collection information management system including the function setting principle and operation method; text and multimedia information collection.