DU2645 Contemporary Art Theory and Philosophy

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
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
Mon 15:00–16:35 B12
Prerequisites
good reading skills in English
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 main goal of this course is to present some important contemporary concepts and theories of image, viusion and visual arts.
Syllabus
  • What is an image? Image and work of art. When is art? Imagination-creative act. Meaning, intention, intentionality. Presence of a work of art. New approach to iconology, body as image-medium, empathy and understanding. Directiove and depcitive pictures, affordance, agency. Vision and visuality, does vision have a history? Art and mind Gaze Work of art and culture: context and habitus. Subject/object. Art as a process. Limits of representation, trauma and representation, representation of Holocaust. The end of art, death of image.
Literature
  • KESNER, Ladislav. Dějiny umění a teorie mysli (Art History and Theory of Mind). Umění. Ústav dějin umění AV ČR, 2008, vol. 56, No 1, p. 16-28. ISSN 0049-5123. info
  • Art : key contemporary thinkers. Edited by Diarmuid Costello - Jonathan Vickery. 1st pub. Oxford: Berg, 2007, x, 213. ISBN 9781845203207. info
  • KESNER, Ladislav. Understanding of Art as an Active Visual Hermeneutics. Ars. 2006, vol. 39, No 1, p. 3-19. info
  • KESNER, Ladislav. Imaginace a výtvarné umění: nové perspektivy starého vztahu. Umění. Ústav dějin umění AV ČR, 2005, vol. 53, No 3, p. 207-26, 20 pp. ISSN 0049-5123. info
  • Vizuální teorie : současné angloamerické myšlení o výtvarných dílech. Edited by Ladislav Kesner, Translated by Lucie Vidmar. 2. rozš. vyd. Jinočany: H&H, 2005, 372 s. ISBN 8073190540. info
  • Aesthetics and the philosophy of art : the analytic tradition : an anthology. Edited by Peter Lamarque - Stein Haugom Olsen. 1st pub. Malden: Blackwell, 2004, xii, 571. ISBN 9781405105828. info
  • CARROLL, Noël. Philosophy of art : a contemporary introduction. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 1999, ix, 273. ISBN 9780415159647. info
  • DANTO, Arthur C. After the end of art : contemporary art and the pale of history. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997, xx, 239. ISBN 0691002991. info
  • ARNHEIM, Rudolf. Art and visual perception : a psychology of the creative eye. Expanded and rev. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974, x, 508. ISBN 0520243838. info
  • MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice and Colin SMITH. Phenomenology of perception. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962, xxi, 466. ISBN 0710009941. info
Assessment methods
seminar paper
Language of instruction
Czech
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