DU0208m Introduction to visual culture and image science

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Kesner, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Helena Maňasová Hradská, 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
each even Thursday 10:50–14:05 K32
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
  • 22. 2. Introduction (rules, presentations; Topic: Schlanke Kunstgeschichte and the fat visual studies: visual studies, Bildwissenschaft, visual culture) 8. 3. Human sense of sight: perception, detektion a kognitive stuctures, premeaning, analogy, metaphore, mental images 22. 3. Image and Picture outside Arts (advertising, fetishes, concept vizualization, different media) 5. 4. Meaning and enjoyment: intention, context, subjektivity, semiose, ostension, ambivalence, punctum and studium 19. 4. Image/picture as an instrument (purpose): didactics, social engineering, advertisement and propaganda and substitive function 3. 5. Visual culture: communication, rules, literacy 17. 5. Picture/Object and memory: antropological constant, archetype, Pathosformeln, imagines agentes, and the collecting.
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
  • LAKOFF, George. Ženy, oheň a nebezpečné věci : co kategorie vypovídají o naší mysli. Edited by Dominik Lukeš. Vydání první. Praha: Triáda, 2006, 655 strana. ISBN 808613878X. info
  • BARTHES, Roland. Mytologie. Translated by Josef Fulka. Druhé vydání v českém j. Praha: Dokořán, 2004, 170 stran. ISBN 9788073633592. 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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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