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Presentation
Presentation
Introduction to the Visual Culture is an introductory approach to the regime of understanding images at large, as well as the world inder its conditition of a vision apparatus, all this in contemporary societies, whether under the model of literacy, whether under one of hermeneutics, semiotics or phenomenology of perception.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Bachelor; Master Degree | Semestral | 3
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
1 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULHT36-12617
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
- I Visual Culture: contexts
- 1. Visual Culture: what is it? culturalist definitions and visualist definitions.
- 2. Vision, visuality and visibility: towards a literacy.
- 3. The centrality of gazing in the Western modern experience.
- 4. The post-modern statute of images: the simulacrum, the pastiche and the virtual.
- 5. Methodologies in visual analysis the interdisciplinarity: the ¿good eye and the compositional reading; content analysis and assessment; semiology and decoding; psichoanalysis and interpretation.
- II Visual Culture: concepts
- 1. The ocular, the optic, the scopic: oculophilia and oculophobia
- 2. Distraction and hiperattention: the urban culture and Georg Simmel blasé
- 3. Aura, distance and exposure: Walter Benjamin viewing.
- 4. The panopticon and the deviant surveillance: space and vision bound to powers will, according to Michel Foucault
- 5. Technologies of looking: photography, cinema, and Siegfried Kracauer monogram and last image.
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Objectives
Objectives
- Recognize the centrality of vision and images in the context of Western culture, mainly in the experience of modernity and contemporaneity.
- Placing the debate on visuality as a cultural construction.
- Proving the interdisciplinary context of Visual Culture; adapting its concepts on the socio cultural contextualization of images; recognize the main theoretical approaches underlying the constitution of images as human productions; analyse historical moments, objects and artefacts (ar chitectural ones) in which looking , gazing and showing are constitutive experiences.
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Teaching methodologies and assessment
Teaching methodologies and assessment
Collaborative «role-play».
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References
References
- ARNEIM, Rudolf O poder do centro : um estudo da composição nas artes visuais / Rudolf Arnheim ; trad. Maria Elisa Costa, Lisboa : Edições 70, 1990 ART/333-Bc
- BAUDRILLARD, Jean (1991) Simulacros e Simulação; Lisboa: Relógio d¿Água Cota: CO/88-BC.
- BENJAMIN, Walter (1992) Sobre arte, técnica, linguagem e política; Lisboa: Relógio d¿Água Cota: CO/205-BC
- ELKINS, James (2003) Visual Studies: a skeptical introduction; New York, London: Routledge Cota: AV/534-BC
- EVANS, Jessica, HALL, Stuart, ed. lit. (1999) Visual culture : the reader; London: Sage Publications Cota: AVF/97-BC
- GIL, Isabel Capeloa (2011) Literacia Visual: estudos sobre a inquietude das imagens; Lisboa: Edições 70 Cota: AV/795-BC.
- MIRZOEFF, Nicholas, ed. lit. (2002) The visual culture reader; London, New York: Routledge Cota: AV/488-BC.
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
No
