92901 STUDIO PRACTICE AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Year	No.	Offer	Mode	Description			Cred. Pts
97	92901 	S1  	D 	STUDIO PRAC & PROJ DEVEL  	2.00

Contents

• Staffing
• Synopsis
• Objectives
• Topics
• Recommended References
• Student Workload
• Assessment Details
• Other Requirements

STAFFING:

SYNOPSIS:

Students undertaking the Honours course in Visual Arts will work in  a
specific  studio area. Its selection will be based on proven expertise
in  one  of the six areas offering specialization: ceramics,  painting
printmaking,   sculpture,   textiles,   drawing   provided    suitable
supervision  and  studio  space is available. Studio  practice  should
indicate a clear emergence of an individual visual language as well as
a high level of technical and artistic competence.

Students  will submit a comprehensive project proposal outlining  both
the concept and practice of their particular visual field. The context
of  their  research  is a significant factor. This  should  take  into
account  personal and studio positions in relation to  Australian  and
international   concerns  with  appropriate  historical  underpinnings
linked  to  concepts  of  modern  theoretical  thinking.  The  Project
Development  proposal should also include a selection of comprehensive
supportive drawings, photographs, marquettes, folios, etcetera of  the
work  in  progress  as well as an indication of the  final  exhibition
format.

OBJECTIVES:

On successful completion of the Studio Practice and Projects
Development unit students should be able to demonstrate:

1. an advanced level of creative practice which predicts the
   eventual Project resolution;
   
2. an ability to document the various stages in the research and
   development of the work;
   
3. a knowledge of the integration of theory and practice in their
   studio area in both a specific and general context.
   

TOPICS:

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In consultation with their supervisor, students will
complete research and practical work in their studio
area and present at least two discussion papers
associated with the research and preparation of the
project development.

RECOMMENDED REFERENCE MATERIALS:

Abbs, P, The Symbolic Order: A Contemporary Reader of the Arts
Debate, Falmer Press.

Conner, S, Post-Modernist Culture, Basil Blackwell.

De Laurentis, T, Alice Doesn't, Indiana University Press.

Derrida, J, The Truth in Painting, University of Chicago Press.

Foster, H, Recodings, Bay Press, Seattle.

Harvey, D, The Condition of Postmodernity, Basil Blackwell.

Hutcheon, L, The Poetics of Postmodernism, Routledge.

Langer, S, Philosophy in a New Key, Harvard University Press.

McEvilley, T, Art and Discontent Document, McPherson & Cowper.

Marcuse, H, The Aesthetic Dimension, Macmillan.

Morris, M, The Pirate's Fiancee, Verso.

Nicholson, L, Feminism/Postmodernism, Routledge.

Pefanis, J, Heterology and the Post-Modern, Allen & Unwin.

Shepherd, A, Aesthetics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art,
Oxford University Press.

Williams, P & Chrisman, L, 1994, Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial
Theory, Columbia Uni. Press.

Willis, P, Common Culture, Open University Press.

Wolff, J, The Social Production of Art, New York University Press.

Wolff, J, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art, George Allen & Unwin.

STUDENT WORKLOAD REQUIREMENTS:

	ACTIVITY				HOURS
Tutorials/Workshops                           	96
Private Study                                 	234

ASSESSMENT DETAILS:

No  *F/S Marks     Due        Description                              Wtg(%)    LBL
1   S              PASSIM    STUDIO PRACTICE AS CONTRACTED             50.00     N
2   S              PASSIM    PROJECT DEVELOPMENT                       50.00     N

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

1    Continuous  assessment  with  supervision  and  relevant  invited
     advisers.
2    Final  assessment of the studio practice and the project proposal
     will  be  by  submission  of the work  to  a  relevant  panel  of
     assessors.
3    If  students  submit  assignments  after  the  due  date  without
     extenuating circumstances, then a penalty up to a maximum of  20%
     of  the  assigned mark shall normally apply for each working  day
     late.