Course: Analysis and Interpretation of Artwork

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Course title Analysis and Interpretation of Artwork
Course code KPF/B114
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Řebíková Barbora, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Pavlíček Tomáš, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Artwork, analysis and interpretation, category form and content, copyright intention, intention works and intentions receptionist adequacy of interpretation 2. Semiotics - basic terminology, concepts diadic and triadic semiotics 3. Semiotics - F. de Saussure's semiotics 4. The Russian formalism - artcentric concept, literary style, 5. Russian formalism - tangents plot and storyline 6. R. Jakobson - the dominant poetic function between communication functions 7. The Czech structuralism - J. Mukařovský, Prague Linguistic Circle, structure, function, norms, values 8. Czech structuralism - work and work-thing-character deliberateness and nondeliberateness, semantic gesture 9. French structuralism - interpretation of myths, challenge function author 10. Tartu School - text, primary and secondary modeling systems, semiotic 11. M.M. Bakhtin h - karnevalizace, dialogičnost, heteroglosie, intertextulita 12. Phenomenological Aesthetics - R. Ingarden, intentionality, non-specificity concretization 13. Hermeneutics - philosophical aspects of art history and hermeneutics, exegesis, hermeneutic circle 14. Postmodernism and deconstruction - paradigm epistémé, discourse

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course deals with a detailed analysis of an artwork from both the theoretical and practical point of view, and shows the plurality of approaches to interpret an artwork. It gives basic information about tendencies in art theory, about schools and streams characteristic especially for 20th century up to the present day, which have influenced the current practice for analysis and interpretation. It provides their basic terminology and creates a view of an artwork as a multivalent and at the same time conceptually graspable phenomenon.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
None.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
seminar work 5-6 pages
Recommended literature
  • BACHTIN, Michail.Michailovič. Francois Rabelais a lidová kultura středověku a renesance. Praha, 1975. ISBN 978-80-7203-776-6.
  • ČERVENKA, Miroslav. Obléhání zevnitř. Praha, 1996. ISBN 80-85639-77-7.
  • DERRIDA, Jacques. Texty k dekonstrukci. Bratislava, 1993. ISBN 80-7115-046-0.
  • ECO, Umberto. Interpretácia a nadinterpretácia. Bratislava, 1995. ISBN 80-7294-080-5.
  • HENCKMANN, Wolfhart, LOTTER, Konrad. Estetický slovník. Praha: Svoboda, 1995. ISBN 80-205-0478-8.
  • INGARDEN, Roman. Umělecké dílo literární. Praha, 1989. ISBN 80-207-0104-4.
  • JAKOBSON, Roman. Poetická funkce. Jinočany, 1995. ISBN 80-85787-83-0.
  • JANKOVIČ, Milan. Dílo jako dění smyslu. Praha, 1992. ISBN 80-7110-060-9.
  • JANKOVIČ, Milan. Nesamozřejmost smyslu. Praha, 1991. ISBN 80-202-0326-5.
  • LOTMAN, Juraj. Michajlovič. Text a kultúra. Bratislava, 1994. ISBN 80-7115-066-5.
  • MATHAUSER, Zdeněk. Mezi filosofií a poezií. Praha, 1995. ISBN 80-7007-067-6.
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Studie I., II. Brno, 2007. ISBN 80-7294-000-7.
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Studie z poetiky. Praha, 1982.
  • NÜNNING, Ansgar. (vyd.). Lexikon teorie literatury a kultury. Brno, 2006. ISBN 80-7294-170-4.
  • OTRUBA, Mojmír. Znaky a hodnoty. Praha, 1994. ISBN 80-202-0464-4.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Human Studies focused Aesthetics (A14) Category: Philosophy, theology 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer