Visual culture - understanding pictures
The visual area is as old as culture itself. The dramatic growth in society`s total circulation of pictures after invention of the lithography and photography at the beginning of the 19th century led to big changes in the production and use of pictures. The changes also reach into our time`s super quick development and intensifying technology.
This course will give a deeper understanding in how modern picture culture works. Focus on the still media - painting, graphics, photography -and their history and usage. The picture`s role in present time`s multi media visual culture will also be discussed by means of a range of examples.
Lecturer: Sigrid Lien, professor i Kunsthistorie, UiB
Lecture plan:
1. What is visual culture? An introduction.
2. ”The big picture”: History of painting. A brief presentation.
3. ”The challenger”: The photography`s breakthrough in modern culture.
Spring term 2010:
4. Some multimedia picture practices I: The aesthetics of the Russion revolution
5. Some multimedia picture practices II: Dada and surrealism
6. Some multimedia picture practices III: Photography in present time art
Workform:
Lectures
Prequalifications:
none
The course starts 16/11/2009 / Week 47, and ends 07/12/2009 / Week 50
Location: sted
Provider: Design
Teori
Target group: Viskom
Target year of study: Bachelor 1
Bachelor 2
Capacity: 30
Academic staff: