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Classes Code:	23T312
Description:	Picturing the Landscape in Tasmania 5wk
Frequency:	weekly
Tutor:	Jonathan Holmes
Type:	Short Course
Location:	Lecture Room
Start Date:	11/09/2023 Mon
Finish Date:	09/10/2023
Start Time:	11:30
Finish Time:	12:30
Number of weeks:	5
Maximum enrolments:	35
Number Enrolled:	17
Comments:	Picturing the Landscape in Tasmania: an investigative History of Art in Tasmania since 1945 This series of five lectures explores the role that the visual arts in Tasmania have played in several key aspects of the experience of cultural, environmental, social and political change especially in that which occurred during and in the aftermath of the Lake Pedder Campaign of the late 1960s In the first instance the lectures will begin with an observation that the renowned art historian, Kenneth Clark, made in his landmark essay Landscape into Art (1949) when he offered the view that there was no real opportunity or raison d’être to renew the practice of landscape art in the aftermath of the two great wars of the twentieth century. Yet in Tasmania during the 1970s and 1980s environmental protest and the desire to preserve the State’s great natural environment would attract many prominent artists to explore diverse forms of expression capable of giving new impetus to the practice of landscape art.. The lectures will be profusely illustrated and will include art works and ideas that have been presented and published by the author in exhibitions at the University of Tasmania Plimsoll Gallery during the 2000s. These Exhibitions include the following: Painting Tasmanian Landscape, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart 2002. Holmes, JH 2008 , The stuff of history, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart 2008. Paul Zika and Jonathan Holmes, Full frontal: images from within the studio, exhibition catalogue, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2007. There should be ample opportunity for discussion of the topic at the conclusion of each lecture.
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