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Art History and Theory

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Teaching and research in Art History and Theory comes under three major disciplines: Art and Design History, Art Theory, and Art Administration exploring issues, themes and ideas that include:

  • European and American art history: French realism and impressionism, European and American modernism.
  • Post colonial modernism, postmodernism and contemporary art.
  • Contemporary art of the Asia-Pacific region
  • Art and Anthropology
  • Australian art and design history
  • Australian contemporary art, design and craft
  • Curatorship, museology and arts infrastructure
  • Artistic intention, self-reflective practice and autobiography
  • Art, subjectivity & the body; memory and trauma
  • Aesthetics and the Experience of Art
  • Theoretical frameworks for visual art and culture
  • Art Therapy and Psychology
  • History and Theory of Digital and New Media Arts
Art History and Theory at COFA can be studied at these levels:

  • Undergraduate
  • Post Graduate
  • Research

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