Course: Chapters of Visuality Theory

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Course title Chapters of Visuality Theory
Course code KOL/VKDV
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kříž Michal, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
unspecified

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
History and theory of art offer countless possibilities of understanding development or symbolic function of certain artistic movements or specific manners of depiction. The course will place accent mainly on selected questions and problems related to development of our understanding, that is to say, the manner in which we approach images and visuality in general rather than what and how individual images symbolize, or what the development of such symbolism was. The course will be divided into block by topics covered (e.g. icon and the sacred, movement and being moved, talking and teaching) which will focus on the fascinating movement of human visuality throughout history and across various artistic forms (visual art, film, literature, etc.). Our ways of understanding and the reality of our interest in images of the past will outweigh theory and historical description of development. Primary context for individual discussions will be formed by semiotic context.
Ability to analyse selected problems and work with scholarly texts Basic orientation in the field of semiotic studies of visuality
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Dialog, Systematic Observation of Student, Seminar Work

Recommended literature
  • Aumont, J. (2005). Obraz.. Praha.
  • Bartlová, Milena. (2012). Skutečná přítomnost. Středověký obraz mezi ikonou a virtuální realitou. Praha.
  • Gell, A. (2013). Art and Agency. An Anthropological Theory. Oxford.
  • Ingarden, R. (1965). O štruktúre obrazu. Bratislava.
  • Lášek, J. B. ? Luptáková, M. ? Řoutil, M. (eds.). (2011). Ikona v ruském myšlení 20. století. Praha.
  • Merrell, Floyd. (1992). Sign, Textuality, World. Bloomington.
  • Mitchell, W. J. T., Hansen, Mark B. N. (eds.). (2010). The Critical Terms for Media Studies. Chicago, London.
  • MITCHELL, W. J. T. (1995). Picture Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Mitchell, W. J. T. (2005). What do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images. Chicago, London.
  • Panofsky, E. Význam ve výtvarném umění. Praha 1981..


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): General Lingvistics and Theory of Communication (2014) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter