FF:IM114 Modern Interpretations I - Course Information
IM114 Modern Interpretational Approaches to Work of Art I
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Jozef Cseres, PhD. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Jozef Cseres, PhD.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 16:00–17:40 C11
- Prerequisites
- Ability to interpret the work of fine arts in actual contexts.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Theory of Interactive Media (programme FF, N-HS)
- Theory of Interactive Media (programme FF, N-OT) (3)
- Course objectives
- Graduate of the course will be oriented in the plenty of various interpretational attitudes toward the work of arts. Thanks to the readings and analyses of specific texts the student will achieve the methodological skills for erudite and contextual interpretation of work of art.
- Learning outcomes
- Student will be informed about the actual ways of interpretation of work of fine arts and taught how to grasp and interpret it meaningfully.
- Syllabus
- Historical outline of the paradigms in art representation and their influence on the interpretational strategies. Plurality of interpretational attitudes towards works of art. Limits of interpretation. Collision of art history and aesthetics in the interpretation of the “Laocoön” group. Allegoric representation of medieval icons. Perspective as a symbolic form. Velázquez’s play with beholder in front of the “Las Meninas” painting. Manet’s painting anomalies as a foreshadow of modernism. Interpretation of the modern pictures of end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
- Literature
- required literature
- Winckelmann, Johann, J.: Dějiny umění starověku. Praha 1986.
- Eco, Umberto: Meze interpretace. Praha 2004.
- Foucault, Michel: Manet and the Object of Painting. Londýn 2009.
- Lessing, Gotthold E.: Hamburská dramaturgie. Láokoón. Stati. Praha 1980.
- Foucault, Michel: Slova a věci. Praha 2007.
- recommended literature
- Belting, Hans: The Invisible Masterpiece. Londýn 2001.
- Stratton-Pruitt, Suzanne L (ed.).: Velázquez’s Las Meninas. Cambridge 2003.
- Nelson, R. – Shiff, R. (eds.): Kritické pojmy dejín umenia. Bratislava 2004.
- Collins, Bradford R. (ed.): 12 Views of Manet’s Bar. New Jersey 1996. Eco, Umberto: Opera aperta. Cambridge, Massachusetts 1996.
- Teaching methods
- lecture, presentation, class discussion
- Assessment methods
- presentation, final essay
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2020, recent)
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