Issues for Us
Art in Writing 2

Anne Mancini

Commentaries & issues for VCE Art & Studio Arts

Presents a collection of Age articles including:

• Current and contemporary issues for Studio Art students to evaluate analyse and respond to.
• Commentaries with ideas, issues and arguments for VCE Art

Using the same format as Issues 1, Key terms andVocabulary are explained with questions that ask the students not only to comprehend but also to analyse and form opinions on issuses and commentaries.

Topics include

• Who owns art?
• Loot, plunder and confiscation : The Elgin marbles, German policy during 1930s/40s, Australia’s
  Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986 and Aboriginal art, Dealers collectors and patrons- their
  influence on art: Leo Castelli, Joseph Brown, Gabrielle Pizzi, Art teacher collectors
• Writing about art
• Biographers and artists
• The writer as interviewer: Gary Catalano on Rick Amour
• The writer as researcher: Janine Burke on Joy Hester

I t provides:

• examples of teaching and learning approaches as they may arise and demonstrates possible ways of addressing key knowledge linked to Unit 4 Outcome 2 in VCE Studio Arts
• examples of possible approaches using commentaries about art works and the meaning of art works linked to Unit 4 Outcome 2 in VCE Art

This material has been prepared by Anne Mancini whose issues based books Australian Perspectives on Art and Art Though Australian Eyes are already available from Art Education Victoria’s Resources by mail order.
Art Education Victoria would like to acknowledge the generous support of The Age Age.

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