School Of Humanities And LanguagesAspects of Early Modern ArtWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 10400.1
Discipline: FINE ARTS
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Successful completion of 60 credit points at Level 1.
About this Unit
This unit examines early nineteenth-century American modernism by studying a variety of social and political issues, including: politics and vision, nationalism, constructions of the American frontier and feminism. A number of approaches are incorporated: semiotics, poststructuralism, feminism and formalism. The unit also examines the major architectural technological and theoretical developments of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Architectural topics include: the new American democracy and the quest for an 'Athenian America'; and American medieval-revival styles of the early nineteenth century.
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