Pre-requisite: 92528
This unit explores the role of philosophical thought and the significance of its influence on the visual arts. Much of the critical thinking which shapes the cultural theories informing contemporary visual arts practice embraces a view which reflects a social, cultural and anthropological context. The theories of art and aesthetics from early Greece provide a foundation from which to introduce selected writings by theorists reflecting positions within Humanism, Romanticism, the Enlightenment, and Marxism, as well as modernist and contemporary American and European perspectives.