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080050 VO Image and Projection (2018S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie
Moodle

Details

Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 06.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 13.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 20.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 10.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 17.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 24.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 08.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 15.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 29.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 05.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 12.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 19.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Aims:
The participants understand structural and historical correlations between the methods of art history and one of the main objects of art historical research, perspectival images. This understanding entails a heightened reading competence with regard to art historical and art theoretical texts and a strengthening of the ability to develop a research question in a methodically controlled way. The examination of the relation of image and projection and its long history shall further provide conceptual instruments of a critical analyses of today's image culture - within and without the field of the visual arts.

Contents:
The primary objects of art historical research are artefacts of the far and more recent past, often materially bound, static images. The lecture explores some of the methods developed in the discipline to deal scientifically with these objects. Starting from classical texts of Erwin Panofsky the lecture will thus give an introduction in basic questions of the art historical methodology - situating them in relation to today's culture of ephemeral, movable images.
The main part of the lecture will focus on works which, since the 1960s, resumed one of the most important models of pictorial representation - namely the linear perspective of the European Renaissance. Transferred to technical media with photography at its base the mathematical theory of perspectival projection is implied in film- and video-installations, slide projections, photographs, and quasi-architectonic installations of artists like Michael Snow, Dan Graham, Dara Birnbaum, Jeff Wall, Jean-Luc Godard and others. The theoretical models developed to deal with this type of 'projected image' - including the theory of the 'cinema apparatus' with its foundation in psychoanalysis and Marxist critique of ideology - are the second focal point of the methodological discussion of the lecture.
The exploration of the photography-based projected image in art since the 1960s will further be linked to a selective retrospect on the emergence of linear perspective in the renaissance and the history of its interpretations. Here the our path will return to Erwin Panofsky's influential text about Renaissance perspective as a 'symbolic form' of 'modern' human subjectivity. Drawing on the explored connections of image, projection and human subjectivity the lecture will conclude with a preliminary sketch of the structure and function of digital images in today's visual culture.

Methods: discourse analysis, hermeneutics, close readings of art works

Assessment and permitted materials

Multiple choice test at the end; allowed tools: dictionnaire (for non-native speakers).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Readiness to read, also repeatedly, the supplied literature; accurate acquaintance with the texts and works under discussions; ability to recognize and reformulate in own words the theoretical issues and historical facts presented during the lecture.

Examination topics

Art works with 'projected images' since the 1960s; works and perspective theory of the Renaissance; art historical texts from Erwin Panofsky to George Baker and others; theoretical texts from Platon to Louis Althusser.

Reading list

Will be supplied via Moodle.

Association in the course directory

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