VISUAL CULTURE
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2016/2017
- Teacher
- ADA PATRIZIA FIORILLO
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ART/03
Training objectives
- In order to introduce the modern concept of Visual culture, the course intends to treat this discipline analyzing the various characteristics that constitute it. The aim is to give to the students further instruments to approach the images and the cultural process within they create and change.
Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- The image and the gaze: methodologies of approach and strategies of the vision
Considering the activity of the gaze as an experience to approach the images, but above all to understand what and how they communicate, is one of the most important aspect of the visual culture. Recognized as a discipline only in the last ten years, it is included among an interdisciplinary project of analysis and criticism relative to the visual languages within an anthropological perspective, that gives attention to the cultural processes, where the image is produced and interpreted, developed or changed. Therefore the visual culture considers the images not as isolated “objects”, but as the result of some experiences that change their use but also their meaning, recovering and updating the vision inherited from Warburg.
Having as a central point the relation between image and gaze, the course will deal with some subjects relative to the phenomenon of the visuality in the Western culture. As regards the system of the visual representation, some of the aspects concerning the developments of the modernity (painting, photography, digital images) will receive a particular attention in order to find a possible connection with other spheres of the culture relating to the historical and social context of the present period.
A series of seminars will deal with a type of particular images, that is the ex-votes as vehicle of existential narrations that interfere with different spheres of the anthropological, magic-ritual and aesthetic culture.
The subjects of the lesson:
Introduction
What is the visual culture?
What does it mean by visuality? And by culture?
Origins and presuppositions: a field of studies between interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary
The system of the visual representation
The shape and image; the relation between sign and significance
Visual culture and Bildwissenschaft: pictorial turn and iconic turn
The forms of the visual representation (painting, photography, digital images)
The history of art and the visual culture
Structures of the vision and processes of representation
The eye, the gaze, the spectator
The spectrum of eye in the practices of representation
The roles of the images in the post photographic era
Realism and digital images
The visual experience and virtual worlds
Visuality and globalization
The power of images
The fine line between public and private
The social use of the images
The images and the history
The body in scene
Seminar subjects (prof. Antonio Utili)
(4 workshops in the classroom, everyone of 2 hours)
The ex voto in the history and in the cultures
Recognize the ex-voto in the daily life
From the archaeology of the primitive to the sphere of the post-modern
The attraction of the ex-voto and the new models of representation Didactic methods
- Frontal lessons. There will be seminars with experts in their field .
Learning assessment procedures
- The last text is an oral examination and treats the subjects discussed during the lessons. It bases on a good knowledge of the texts regarding the bibliography, but also on the ability to collocate the discipline and its relative subjects in the critical area. The examination will last twenty minutes, during which the candidate will be addressed three or four questions .
Reference texts
- Bibliografy (for examination)
A. Pinotti- A. Somaini, Cultura visuale. Immagini, sguardi, media, dispositivi, Einaudi, Torino 2016.
Letture consigliate/Suggested reading
J. J.Wunenburger, Filosofia delle immagini, Einaudi, Torino 1999.
