DU0208a Introduction to visual culture and image science

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Kesner, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Kesner, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Ladislav Kesner, Ph.D.
Timetable
Tue 8:20–9:55 B11
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The seminar aims at: 1) providing systematic overview of disciplines of voisual studies and image science and their relationship with art history 2) mapping main concepts and issues of vision and visuality, shared by various disciplines of visual 3) presenting models of image analysis from various contexts of art, popular culture, as well as science. Students will gain analytical and conceptual tools and skills that should enable them to reflect upon, analyze and interpret various kinds of images and visual apsects of contemporary culture.
Syllabus
  • 1. History of art and image science 2. What is visual culture? 3. Visiona nd visuality 4. Historical and anthropological dimensions of concept of image 5. Current view of visual perception 6. Beholder s share 7. Visual hermentuics and image understanding in art and non-art images 8. History of vision 9. Images and models in science and medicine 10. Visual culture and public space 11. Manipulation and abuse of the image; ethical and political dimensions of images 12. Visual intelligence and competence
Literature
  • MIKŠ, František. Gombrich : tajemství obrazu a jazyk umění : pozvání k dějinám a teorii umění. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2008, 359 s. ISBN 9788073640453. info
  • KESNER, Ladislav. Obrazy a modely ve vědě a medicíně (Images and Models in Science and Medicine). In Marta Filipová a Matthew Rampley, eds., Možnosti vizuálních studií. Obrazy-texty-interpretace. Brno: Společnost pro odbornou literaturu, 2008, p. 155-83, 29 pp. bez. ISBN 978-80-87029-26-8. info
  • Exploring visual culture : definitions, concepts, contexts. Edited by Matthew Rampley. Repr. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University, 2007, xiii, 257. ISBN 0748618457. info
  • GOODMAN, Nelson. Jazyky umění : nástin teorie symbolů. Edited by Tomáš Kulka. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2007, 213 s. ISBN 9788020015198. info
  • KULVICKI, John V. On images : their structure and content. 1st pub. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006, xi, 258. ISBN 019929075X. info
  • The virtual window : from Alberti to Microsoft. Edited by Anne Friedberg. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006, xii, 357. ISBN 9780262512503. info
  • KESNER, Ladislav. Understanding of Art as an Active Visual Hermeneutics. Ars. 2006, vol. 39, No 1, p. 3-19. info
  • DIKOVITSKAYA, Margarita. Visual culture : the study of the visual after the cultural turn. 1st MIT Press paperback ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006, 316 s. ISBN 0262541882. info
  • AUMONT, Jacques. Obraz. 1. vyd. V Praze: Akademie múzických umění v Praze, 2005, 325 s. ISBN 80-7331-045-7. info
  • KESNER, Ladislav, ed. Vizuální teorie. Současné angloamerické myšlení o výtvarných dílech (2.rozšířené vydání). Jinočany: H & H, 2005, 372 pp. ISBN 80-7319-043-5. info
  • SZCZEPANIK, Petr. (ed.) Nová filmová historie. Antologie současného myšlení o dějinách kinematografie a audiovizuální kultury. Praha: Herrmann a synové, 2004, 528 pp. info
  • Art history, aesthetics, visual studies. Edited by Michael Ann Holly - Keith P. F. Moxey. Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2002, xvii, 271. ISBN 0931102499. info
  • The visual culture reader. Edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2002, xix, 737. ISBN 0415252229. info
  • BARNARD, Malcolm. Approaches to understanding visual culture. 1st pub. Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001, xi, 212. ISBN 0333772881. info
  • STURKEN, Marita and Lisa CARTWRIGHT. Practices of looking : an introduction to visual culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, 385 s. ISBN 0198742711. info
  • ELKINS, James. The domain of images. 1st print. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001, xxi, 282. ISBN 0801487242. info
  • BELTING, Hans. Konec dějin umění. Translated by Jan Hlavička. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2000, 244 s. ISBN 8020408568. info
  • GOMBRICH, E. H. The uses of images : studies in the social function of art and visual communication. 1st pbk. ed. London: Phaidon, 2000, 304 s. ISBN 0714839698. info
  • MIRZOEFF, Nicholas. An introduction to visual culture. 1st publ. London: Routledge, 1999, xi, 274. ISBN 0415158761. info
  • GOMBRICH, E. H. The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. London: Phaidon Press, 1994. ISBN 071483243X. info
  • STAFFORD, Barbara Maria. Body criticism : imaging the unseen in enlightenment art and medicine. 1st MIT Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1993, xxi, 587. ISBN 0262691655. info
  • BAXANDALL, Michael. Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy : a primer in the social history of pictorial style. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988, 183 s. ISBN 019282144X. info
Assessment methods
Oral presentation in the class, written paper at the end of the semester
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2010.
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