(in Polish) Theories of Art and Image 1500-SDN-TOAAI
This course analyzes the importance of art in Western and non-Western societies. It focuses on cultural and philosophical approaches based on anthropological analysis, art history perspectives, and semiotics. The course familiarizes students with different cultural and philosophical debates about the theories of art and image, particularly those used to analyze contemporary art objects like paintings, sculptures, theater, literature, photography, and cinema.
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Assessment criteria
Participation in class and exposition of a relevant theme is obligatory, and attendance of 80% is mandatory
Bibliography
Barthes, Roland. 1981. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. New York: Hill and Wang Press.
Barthes, Roland. 1991. Mythologies. New York: The Noonday Press.
Benjamin, Walter. 2008. The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Deleuze, Gilles. 2003. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation. London and New York: Continuum.
Deleuze. Gilles. 1997. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. 1986. The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. 2006. Truth and Method. London: Continuum.
Gell, Alfred. 1998. Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Greimas, Algirdas-Julien. 1997. De la imperfección. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Hobart, Angela and Kapferer, Bruce. 2007. Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Ingold, Tim. 2002. The Perception of Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling, and Skill. London and New York: Routledge.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 1964. The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics. The United States: Northwestern University Press.
Napier, David. 1992. Foreign Bodies: Performance, Art, and Symbolic Anthropology. Berkeley: The University of California Press.
Rouch, Jean. 2003. Ciné-Ethnography. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Severi, Carlo. 2015. The Chimera Principle: An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination. Chicago: Hau Books.
Notes
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Term 2024Z:
The course is intended to be interdisciplinar, so as the participants the doctoral students of philosophy, history, literary studies, culture and religion studies or art studies are welcome. |
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