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| Udgave: |
Efterår 2012 Hum |
| ECTS points: |
15 |
| Årsværk: |
15 |
Semester: |
1 semester |
| Institutter: |
Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab |
| Undervisere: |
Slavko Kacunko |
| Skema- oplysninger: |
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| Indhold: |
An introductory survey course deals with the mirror as a medium of art and visual culture. It assumes no previous experience or training, so the initial emphases are on the use of methods, recommended literature, and training in topological, chronological and causal orientation, independent questioning and discussion as well as other basic procedures.
The course objectives are:
1. To introduce students to the mythology and metallurgy of the mirror in Greek and Roman culture as well as in the context of the rise of the first Bronze-Age civilisations and subsequent mirror production.
2. To introduce students to various forms and understandings of mirrors in the religion, philosophy, art and science of Classical times and their materialism of myths and origins up to the medieval idealism of vices and virtues.
3. To orient students to the wide range of the mirror-usage as a motif and a metaphor in the Western Art of the Early Modern period; to discuss the development of academic conventions of representation in the context of the diversification and canonising of genres of painting, with reference to the most prominent examples from the Art History.
4. To give a brief outline of the history of European (glass-) mirror production and distribution, followed by a discussion of the design and reception of mirror frames, to end with the halls of mirrors and their important consequence for the ‘architecturalisation’ of the mirror and the ‘mirror-glazing’ of architecture.
5. To discuss the question of ‘decadence’ in the history of both mirror and taste, and of ‘progress’ in the practice and theory of art and culture in the eighteenth century, providing a link to the relationship between mirrors and the sciences during the early industrialisation-period.
6. To provide students with methodological skills for recognizing mirrors as a pointer to the laws of the medium in question, precisely by continually transgressing their implicit or explicit limits within the context of the Visual Culture.
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| Litteratur: |
Benjamin Goldberg, The Mirror and Man. Charlottesville, VA. 1985
Jonathan Miller, On Reflection. London 1998
Mark Pendergrast, Mirror/Mirror: A History of the Human Love Affair with Reflection. New York 2003
Richard Gregory. Mirrors in Mind. Oxford: W.H. Freeman, 1997
Hope B. Werness, The Symbolism of Mirrors in Art from Ancient Times to the Present. New York 1999
Sabine Melchior-Bonnet, The Mirror. A History. New York / London 2002
Slavko Kacunko, Mirror. Medium. Art. On the History of Mirror in the Age of Image, 2010 (only in German)
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| Kursus hjemmeside: |
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| Bemærkninger: |
Overblik, kursusgang 1-11:
1. Introduction. Mirror and Script in Western Asia and Egypt
2. Europe’s first advanced civilisation in Crete and the status and significance of the Daedalean myth cycle for the history of the western concept of art
3. Mirror-Shields as Instruments of the mythological and metallurgical problem-solving strategy
4. Mirror and Vision in the first script-based Religions, in the Philosophy and the Art of Antiquity
5. Mirror in the Optics, Catoptrics, and Light-Metaphysics of the Antiquity and the Middle Ages. ‘Magic Mirrors’
6. Mirror in the Painting of the Early Modern Period (I). (1) Allegory and Genre, (2) Still Life
7. Mirror in the Painting of the Early Modern Period (II). (3) Portrait and Self-portrait (4) Nude paintings
8. Beyond Borders of the Genre and the Medium: Velázquez’ Las Meniñas
9. Mirror-Production and -Distribution in the Early Modern Period. Mirror and the Science in the 17/18. Century
10. From the Mirror-Frames to the Mirror-Spaces. Versailles and thereafter
11. ‘Decadence’ and ‘Progress’ in the Art Praxis and -Theory of the 18. Century. Hogarth
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| Undervisnings- sprog: |
Kun engelsk
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| Sidst redigeret: |
31/5-2012 |