FF:DU0208m Visual culture - Course Information
DU0208m Introduction to visual culture and image science
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2015
- 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.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 7:30–9:05 K31
- 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
- History of Arts (programme FF, B-HS)
- History of Arts (programme FF, B-OT) (3)
- 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, visual studies, image science 2. What is visual culture? 3.Historical and anthropological dimensions of the concept of image 4. Visual medium 5. Vision as a biological, social and cultural phenomenon 6. Visual hermeneutics and image understanding in art and non-art images 7. Power and agency of images 8. History of vision 9. Images and models in science and medicine 10. Everyday visual culture; images in public space 11. Images in popular culture, spectacle and surveillance 12. Manipulation and abuse of the image; ethical and political dimensions of images 12. Visual inteligence and competence
- Literature
- Visual literacy. Edited by James Elkins. New York: Routledge, 2008, viii, 217. ISBN 9780415958110. info
- FILIPOVÁ, Marta and Matthew RAMPLEY. Možnosti vizuálních studií : obrazy, texty, interpretace. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Seminář dějin umění, 2007, 254 s. ISBN 9788087029268. info
- ELKINS, James. Visual studies : a skeptical introduction. New York: Routledge, 2003, ix, 230. ISBN 0415966817. info
- ELKINS, James. The domain of images. 1st print. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001, xxi, 282. ISBN 0801487242. info
- Vizuální teorie : současné anglo-americké myšlení o výtvarných dílech. Edited by Ladislav Kesner, Translated by Lucie Vidmarová - Ladislav Kesner. Vyd. tohoto souboru 1. Jinočany: H & H, 1997, 265 s. : i. ISBN 80-86022-17-X. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, students´presentations, discussion
- Assessment methods
- essay
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2015, recent)
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