The Draftsman's contract. The Art of Drawing in Philosophy and Artistic Practice 3800-NZ-M2-24
The status of drawing in art history, philosophy, and artistic practice is often ambivalent. As a consequence, discussions about the definition of drawing and its location in a cultural context are still alive. During the seminar we will look at various artistic practices that use drawing, we will analyze them from the perspective of art history
and philosophy. The subject of our interest will also be the material context related to the draftsman's workshop. We will look at the process of drawing autonomy in Renaissance art, in the hierarchy of arts. We will examine its status as a tool for educating artists. In this context, we will also be interested in the relationship between looking and drawing, the correlation between the act of drawing and eye training. We will contrast it with a spontaneous, expressive or automatic drawing. We will be interested in drawing as a basic pictorial act, as an ontological gesture marking the border between existence and non-existence, as an image of an idea. We will also discuss the particular ambivalence of drawing, which is neither just a medium nor just a message. We will discuss the issues of workshop practice and the issues of authorship of a drawing work. We will analyze the relationship between drawing and memory.
We will analyze the following categories: sketch, study, project, autonomous work, contour, diagram, gesture. We will also be interested in calligraphic and micrographic drawing.
A detailed syllabus will be provided to seminar participants at the first meeting.
Type of course
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
student knows and understands:
- to a high degree – research and interpretation methods of philosophical texts.
- some philosophical positions in contemporary aesthetics.
- to a high degree – relations between philosophical ideas and culture.
Skills:
student is able to:
- interpret philosophical texts and compare theses from various sources.
- find relationships between philosophical ideas and social and culture processes.
Socials skills:
student is able to:
- take part in social and culture live.
Assessment criteria
- knowledge of texts that are the basis for discussion.
- an oral statement on a selected issue analyzed during the seminar based on obligatory and supplementary literature. The subject of the speech should be agreed with the persons conducting the seminar.
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