Objectives and competences
- to deepen and systematize the knowledge of the students about art historical research and preparation of texts,
- to develop students' abilities for individual work with literature,
- to enable students for the writing of reviews and scholarly texts with scholarly apparatus,
- to develop proper use of art historical terminology and comparative analysis,
- to develop students' abilities to select, valuate, analyse and interpret scholarly texts,
- to prepare students for the writing of MA theses,
- to encourage students for critical autonomous attitude and reflection on the problems - to inform the students by means of selected works of art, artists and art periods, movements, collections, scholarly texts, etc., about interpretation models and their possibilities and consequences or effects on the development of art history and humanities in general;
- to inform them about the significance which the period context, ideological orientation, etc. of the art historian have for the interpretation of art;
- to deepen the knowledge about different methods and approaches;
- to develop students' abilities for raising questions relevant for the interpretation of art;
- to develop students' abilities for identification of different interpretation models;
- to encourage students for autonomous attitude towards and deliberation on problems;
- to encourage them to inter-relate the approaches and employ inter-disciplinary research;
- to enable them for autonomous use of literature and for text writing.
Content (Syllabus outline)
The subject, proceeding from selected themes from the history of art, offers a systematically theoretical and practical insight into the research work of an art historian in preparing different sorts of texts and other forms of presentation and interpretation of art object. Special emphasis is given to the methods of collecting, analysing and valuating art historical works for a relevant survey over the state of research of certain themes; comparative analysis of works of art and preparation of assessment of individual art historical texts. The student himself writes a shorter scholarly text, where special attention is paid to accurate terminology, structure, methodology, scholarly apparatus and suitable theoretical starting points. Possibilities of interpreatation of art from the viewpoint of art history and in connection with other branches, particularly humanities and social sciences (philosophy, theology, psychology, literary history and theory, history, anthropology, sociology, economy). The principal starting points for the subject: political iconography, iconology, hermeneutics and contextual and receptional analyses. Political, religious, ideological and cultural-historical situation of each period finds expression in architecture and visual arts as well as in their interpretation; questions posed in this context by a contemporary art historian, how one can understand and interpret works of art and their function.
Learning and teaching methods
- lectures with AV projections
- seminar work in class and before originals
- mentorship
- written seminar works and studies
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and understanding:
- Students will acquire basical knowledge concerning the research work of an art historian;
- they will be acquainted with the basic literature and develop abilities for individual preparation of different art historical texts;
- they will develop the ability to valuate, analyse and interpret scholarly texts;
- they will deepen the knowledge about expert terminology and ability for comparative analysis of works of art,
- they will develop the ability to read texts with critical approach and perform their comparative analysis;
- students will acquire basic information and deepen their knowledge about interpretation models;
- they will be acquainted with basic literature and will develop abilities for autonomous research of the problems discussed;
- they will develop abilities for autonomous evaluation, analysis and interpretation of works of art;
- they will develop the ability of critical analysis of art historical texts from the viewpoint of interpretation approaches.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Transferable/Key Skills and other attributes:
- students will be able to adapt usefuly the acquired knowledge to other subjects of the study programme, and particularly to their own writing of MA, and possibly PhD, theses.
- a thorough study of research approches will help them to develop critical attitude and the ability to perform the work in their profession indivudually or in a team
- the knowledge of different interpretation models will enable students to understand European art and culture from antiquity until the present day;
- by delving into the problems they will develop their basic abilities for practical work in institutions for study of cultural heritage, editorial work, etc.;
- the overview of available literature and other sources will facilitate their autonomous research and qualitative completion of their study obligations;
- they will grow into autonomously thinking and critical persons of the humanities
Readings
- Julius Schlosser: Die Kunstliteratur / La letteratura artistica. Manuale delle fonti della storia dell’arte moderna (več izdaj/several editions).
- Sylvan Barnet: A Short Guide to Writing about Art, Longman, New York itd., številni ponatisi/numerous reprints, 19996).
- Metzler Lexikon Kunstwissenschaft (ur./ed. Ulrich Pfisterer), Stuttgart-Weimar 2003.
- Juta Held, Norbert Schneider, Grundzüge der Kunstwissenschaft. Gegenstandsbereiche – Institutionen – Problemfelder, Köln-Weimar-Wien 2007.
- Slovenska umetnost in njen evropski kontekst. Izbrane razprave I (ur.(ed. Barbara Murovec), Ljubljana 2007 (http://uifs.zrc-sazu.si/ebook/slovenskaumetnost.2007.pdf). / Art history in Slovenia (ur./ed. Barbara Murovec, Tina Košak) (Opera Instituti Artis Historiae), Ljubljana 2011.
Aby Warburg: Gesammelten Schriften. Studienausgabe, Berlin 1998-2003.
Oskar Bätschmann: Einführung in die kunstgeschichtliche Hermeneutik, Darmstadt 1984 (več izdaj, 1992).
Die Lesbarkeit der Kunst. Zur Geistes-Gegenwart der Ikonologie (ur. Andreas Beyer), Berlin 1992.
John Berger: Ways of seeing, London 1972 (slov. prevod Načini gledanja, Ljubljana 2008).
Ulrich Fürst: Die lebendige und sichtbare Histori. Programmatische Themen in der Sakralarchitektur des Barock (Fischer von Erlach, Hildebrandt, Santini), Regensburg 2002 (Studien zur christlichen Kunst, 4).
Juhani Pallasmaa: The Eyes of the Skin. Architecture and the Senses, New York 2005 (slov. prevod: Oči kože. Arhitektura in čuti, Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, 2007).
Horst Bredekamp: Theorie des Bildakts, Berlin 2010.
Hans Belting: Global Studies: mapping contemporary art and culture, Ostfildern 2011.
Nadaljnja študijska literatura se predpiše sproti./Further study reading is given currently
Prerequisits
No special prerequisites for inclusion in the subject.
Additional information on implementation and assessment Type (examination, oral, coursework, project):
- coursework and team work;
- seminar work and its public presentation
- oral examination
