Course detail

Visual Literacy

FaVU-1VIG-LAcad. year: 2015/2016

The course is taught by Mgr. Václav Hájek, Ph.D in 2009/10
The course focuses on several interpretation approaches to image and perception in their common forms in the past and in their crystalization to certain theoretical disciplines in modern ages. Visuality is dealt with in two directions in European context. According to the first direction, meaning is searched in visual representation. The image is then understaood as illustration or demonstration of something general (a surrogate of a word or notion). Visual entity can then have didactic function, can act as propaganda or the theatre of sensuality which is to bring the perceiver to a certain goal. The second direction observes the form of the visual phenomenon itself. It deals with its form, structure, and conposition. In this case, the medium as an agent of visuality is emphasized.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Václav Hájek, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Elementary orientation in the terminology of aesthetics. Overall knowledge of the history of aesthetic ideas. Aesthetic issues as an inspiration to the students' independent thinking.

Prerequisites

Students who want to enrol into this course must have a credit from Introduction to Philosophy.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Essay and short presentation.

Course curriculum

1. Form (formalistic tendencies, their oppositions).
2. content (iconography x iconology. hermeneutics. panofsky.
3. function (inside and outside. Adolf Loos. Functionalism. )
4. the sign (seminotics. denotation x connotation. difference. etc)
5. structure (structuralism)
6. narration (narratology)
7. medium (system)
8. style
9. abstraction

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Visual phenomena can be described from various viewpoints or through the prisms of various paradigms. Students will learn to decode them and understand them.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Lectures are optional.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Adolf Hildebrand, Problém formy ve výtvarném umění
Heinrich Wölflin, Principles of Art History.
Erwin Panofsky, Význam ve výtvarném umění
Vilém Flusser, Do univerza technických obrazů

Type of course unit

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Václav Hájek, Ph.D.

E-learning texts

v. hájek (cs)

Pohled_pres_rameno_ok.doc [.doc] 39.5 kB
Obrazy_chodidel_ok.doc [.doc] 45.5 kB

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Visual Literacy

Type of course unit