Pre-requisite: 92527
Understanding and explaining the nature of contemporary culture is a difficult task. Since major technological developments occurred in the mid '60s dramatic social changes have taken place. Intrinsic to these changes are notions of difference in visual culture within the current cultural contexts of artistic communication. This unit addresses issues of social and cultural practice which challenge and shape the arts of European and non-European cultures. Positions of, and differences between, artist and audience are central concepts for deconstruction. Constructs of visual communication, constituted through the visual language of cultural codes and conventions, will be explored as they relate to agency and the transmission of cultural literacy across various periods and cultures in Art History.