HV3DC_SEM Semiotics

Faculty of Education
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0/10. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Marek Sedláček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Marek Sedláček, Ph.D.
Department of Music – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Marie Doležalová
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Art, specificity of art communication, means of artistic expression. Primary and secondary functions, potentional and actualized value, kinds of attitude, changeability of norms. Extensional and intensional crossings in art, specifics of artistic and non-artistic music. The kitsch in art, mass culture. The notion of sign, presentation and representation. Kinds of signs (icon, index and symbol).
Syllabus
  • The program of lectures: 1. Relation between aesthetics and theory of art. Art, its classification, specificity of art communication, means of artistic expression. 2. Function, potential and actualized value, changeability of norms. 3. The Development of general, artistic and music semiotics 4. The main kinds of sign: icon, index and symbol; a theory of signs (type, token, interpretant etc.) 5. Art work as a sign system, codes in music and other kinds of art 6. The analysis of art work 7. Art work in time of its technical reproducibility 8. Mass culture in general term 9. The Kitsch as a product of mass culture; problem of advertisement; the midcult. 10. Relationship between art and non-art, commerciality in music. 11. Pragmatic level of semiotics
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Kolokvium. Pohovor na základě prostudované literatury.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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