Course: Interpretation of visual arts II

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Course title Interpretation of visual arts II
Course code KDT/879
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Dytrtová Kateřina, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Drawn-written relationship, picture-word relationship (Honert, Huemer, Deacon), differences of symbolic languages. 2. Symbol, expression, and word in previous epochs (programmes of Romanic column heads). 3. Relationship between space and sound, revision of terms that have been discussed (denotation, exemplification, expression, structure, context, meaning, content, fictionality), Fluxus, Cage, Rataj. 4. Selected relations modernism, postmodernism, contemporary art, object creation, space and time. 5. Analysis of a current project, topics: space, time, rhythm and sound. 6. Imaging systems of past epochs, transformation and space creation (inverse, hyper convergent, parallel imaging system), Neo Rauch. 7. Music and sound: tonal system, harmonic field, selected samples of 20th century music (Mahler, Stravinsky, contemporary sacred musical minimalism), comparison with audiovisual techniques. 8. Music and sound: tonal system, harmonic field, selected samples of 20th century music (Xenakis, Boulez, Stockhausen, Ligeti, Penderecki), music graphics. 9. Influence of the East in the art of the 20th century, sound ideal - whisper of the bamboo, Gagaku, Cage, silence and pause. 10. Audiovisual art: Guštar, Grygar, Valoch, Alva Noto. 11. Audiovisual art: Ikeda, Mrkus, summary of relations between space, time and sound.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
Interpretation of visual arts is considered as the interpretator's creative gesture. During the 20th century, this point of view is seen, for example, in the cultural anthropology studying models of human behaviour that understands culture as a system of symbols of phenomenological nature. It reveals behavioural models controlled by specific meanings. The models and the cultural patterns derived from them are used in real contact, so they are recognizable behind particular implementations. By return, they re-shape reality as well. They engrave their rules and, in this way, the scope of validity, too. This mechanism must be included in the interpretation of the meanings to be revealed. The same variety is found in the interpretation of the revealed meanings. We usually speak about a certain interpretation spread. However, the spread is not neverending and has determinable rules. From this point of view, culture is perceived as an area where meanings are searched for, negotiated, determined, created - and disappearing as well. Every little newly revealed or formulated part may change the rest of the relationships system.
The student can describe basic problems at the flexible boundary between the spheres of art and non-art. They are able to explain reasons for these tensions and dynamics of criteria, which can be used to capture the value of an artefact, such as counter-positions of thickness and thinness, sharpness and blurriness, the degree of fictionality, between the poles of which, the substantiating and negotiating of the artefact meaning and its position in the artistic context takes place. They understand the world of art as a community of minds that is based on communication and understanding.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Oral exam
Recommended literature
  • Doležel, L. Heterocosmica. Fikce a možné světy. Praha: Karolinum, 2003.
  • DYTRTOVÁ, K. Interpretace a metody ve vizuálních oborech. Acta Universitatis UJEP ÚL, 2013.
  • Dytrtová, K. Kultura, umění a výchova. 2017.
  • Dytrtová, K.; Raudenský, M. a kol. Ko-text. Praha, PF UK, UJEP FUD, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7290-828-8.
  • Dytrtová, K.; Raudenský, M. Exprese, vztahy a procesy. PF UK a FUD UJEP, 2017. ISBN 978-80-7561-087-4.
  • Eco, U. Meze interpretace. Praha. Praha, Karolinum, 2005. ISBN 80-246-0740-9.
  • Goodman, N. Jazyky umění. Nástin teorie symbolů. Praha: Academia, 2007.
  • Groensteen, T. Stavba komiksu - průvodce teorií komiksu. Brno, Host, 2005. ISBN 80-7294-141-0.
  • Hanáková, P. Výzva perspektivy. Obraz a jeho divák od malby quatrtrocenta k filmu a zpět. Praha, Academia, 2008. ISBN 80-200-1625-6.
  • Kvasz, Ladislav. Inštrumentálny realismus. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7465-141-0.
  • RUHRBERG, et.al. Umění 20. století: malířství, skulptury a objekty, nová média, fotografie. Praha: Slovart, 2004. ISBN 80-7209-521-8.


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