CJBC221 Aesthetics and artistic norm in the middle ages

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Hana Křížová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 14:10–15:45 pracovna
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
Course objectives
At the end of this course the students will be able to: • be knowledgeable in issues of normative requirement of medieval art; • work with literature sources of interest’s area; • interpret artistic works from the Middle Ages on the basis of contemporary aesthetic principles; • interdisciplinary connect knowledge from literary area to iconography area; • apply the achieved knowledge and skills in order to write scholarly texts on related topics.
Syllabus
  • • Basic terminology • Medieval scholarship, artes, universities • Cultural mind and taste of medieval society – clothing, jewels, arm • Author’s anonymity, religious purpose, artistic invention vs. servitude to the Catholic Church and religion, inclination to harmony • Microcomsos and macrocosmos – principle of analogy between both cosmos, harmony of universe – transposition the harmony to art • Aesthetic of medieval scholasticism – quantitative and qualitative theory of beauty, proportions (in music, literature, architecture), the God as a beauty • Overstep of ideas of scholasticism – author’s invention, dignity of artist • Personalities of literary science of early Christianity and the Middle Ages - Jeroným, Cassiodorus, Isidor of Sevilla • The Latin Middle Ages vs. beginning of literature in national tongues • Overlap of literary and iconography art (painting, plastic art), marginally architecture • Comparison of medieval and baroque epoch – from harmony to disharmony, antithetic, sensualism
Literature
  • LE GOFF, Jacques and Jean-Claude SCHMITT. Encyklopedie středověku. Edited by Franco Alessio, Translated by Lada Bosáková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2002, 935 s. ISBN 8070215453. info
  • CURTIUS, Ernst Robert. Evropská literatura a latinský středověk. Vyd. 1. Praha: Triáda, 1998, 738 s. ISBN 80-86138-07-0. info
  • ECO, Umberto. Umění a krása ve středověké estetice. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 1998, 239 s. ISBN 8072030981. info
  • DENKSTEIN, Vladimír. K vývoji symbolů a k interpretaci děl středověkého umění. Praha: Academia, 1987, 107 s. URL info
Teaching methods
Accent to individual work with literature, searching and processing of informations, presentation of acquired knowledge, collective debate.
Assessment methods
Credits are obtained on the basis of active work in seminars (presentation, involvement in debate).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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