DU2752 Word and Image. Issue of Communication

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 14:10–15:45 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
Course objectives
In the end of this course students will be able to interpret the relations between word and image in the visual culture of the 20th century.
Syllabus
  • 1. Beginnings: Stern, Caroll, Mallarmé. 2. Visualisation of the word: Apollinaire, futurists, Russian avant-garde. 3. Image in place of text: rebuses, pictograms, picture and object poems. 4. Paul Klee. 5. René Magritte. 6. Lettrism. 7. Henri Michaux. 8. Jiří Kolář. 9. Conceptual art. 10. Contemporary visual culture.
Literature
  • SCHMIDT, Dennis J. Between word and image : Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on gesture and genesis. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013, x, 187. ISBN 9780253006189. info
  • D'ALESSANDRO, Stephanie. Magritte : the mystery of the ordinary, 1926-1938. Edited by René Magritte - Anne Umland. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2013, 256 s. ISBN 9780870708985. info
  • HUNT, John Dixon, David LOMAS and Michael CORRIS. Art, word and image : two thousand years of visual/textual interaction. Edited by Jeremy D. Adler. 1st pub. London: Reaktion Books, 2010, 410 s. ISBN 9781861895202. info
  • ALLMER, Patricia. René Magritte : beyond painting. 1st pub. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009, xvi, 238. ISBN 9780719079283. info
  • JANSKÁ, Lenka. Mezi obrazem a textem : text a grafém v evropském a českém malířství : 1910-1930. 1. vyd. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2007, 167 s. ISBN 9788020415233. info
  • Writing and seeingessays on word and image. Edited by Rui Manuel G. de Carvalho Homem - Maria de Fâatima Lambert. New York, NY: Rodopi, 2006, 403 p. ISBN 9789042016989. info
  • AICHELE, Kathryn Porter. Paul Klee's pictorial writing. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xiv, 252. ISBN 0521812356. info
  • The language of comics : word and image. Edited by Robin Varnum - Christina T. Gibbons. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001, xix, 222. ISBN 1578064147. info
  • NOUGÉ, Paul. René Magritte : (in extenso). Edited by Virginie Devillez - Olivier Smolders. Bruxelles: Didier Devillez, 1997, 160 s. ISBN 2873960132. info
  • PARTSCH, Susanna. Paul Klee 1879-1940. Translated by Ivan Dokulil. Köln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1995, 96 s. ISBN 3822897019. info
  • FREEMAN, Judi. The Dada & surrealist word-image. Edited by John C. Welchman. Los Angeles: County Museum of Art, 1989, 144 s. ISBN 0262061236. info
  • BELLOUR, Raymond. Henri Michaux. [Paris]: Gallimard, 1986, 344 s. ISBN 2070323714. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Presentation and discussion on the selected theme.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
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