Objectives and competences
- To qualify the student to understand the culture of memory, as it reflects in art.
- To qualify the student to recognize the layers of national and/or transnational memory in the work of art.
- To encourage the student to link the work of art with broader social situation, in which it was created.
- To encourage the student to monitor the message of the work of art, as it was changing through time, and to monitor the changes in valuing the work of art in public.
Content (Syllabus outline)
Art is an important media for preserving memory (historical, national, transnational); this extension of art reflects most clearly in erecting public monuments, in historical painting, photography, comics, caricature, but also in all other fields of art, may be even concealed. The culture of memory is influenced by national and other myths as well as actual social situation. The subject will point out to particularities, congenialities and differences in the culture of memory, as it reflects in art; the exposed examples will be from Slovene and from patrimonies in the states of ex-Yugoslavia and in the states of South-East Europe. We shall stress the art in the 19th and 20th century and point out especially the historically crucial periods, such as national conflicts in the second half of the 19th century, World War I, decay of Austro-Hungarian Empire, World War II, “Tito’s Yugoslavia” and the phenomena of its decay. The subject is of interdisciplinary character; it will encourage the students to supplement the content of the subject with knowledge from other subjects of their study program.
Learning and teaching methods
- Lectures with AV projections,
- seminar work in lecture-room and before original works of art,
- mentor work,
- writing seminar works.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
- The student will understand the culture of memory, as it reflects in art.
- He will qualify himself to recognize the layers of national and/or transnational memory in the work of art.
- He will be able to link the work of art with broader social situation, in which it was created.
- He will be able to monitor the message of the work of art, as it was changing through time.
- He will be able to monitor valuing of the work of art and of its message in public, as it was changing through time.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Transferable/Key Skills and other attributes:
The student will use the obtained knowledge by all the others subject from his study program.
Recognizing of changing social relations, knowing of historical, national and transnational memory in art will strengthen student’s critical reflection and will help him in fortifying ethical and responsible attitude towards cultural heritage.
Readings
- Carlo GINZBURG, Spurensicherung. Die Wissenschaft auf der Suche nach Sich Selbst, Berlin 1983.
- (ur. Otto Gerhard OEXLE), Memoria als Kultur, Göttingen 1995.
- Špelca ČOPIČ, Javni spomeniki v slovenskem kiparstvu prve polovice 20. stoletja, Ljubljana 2000.
- (ur. Monika FLACKE), Mythen der Nationen. 1945 – Arena der Erinnerungen, 1-2, Berlin 2004.
- Adeleida ASSMANN, Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit. Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik, München 2006.
- Bogdan Bogdanovic : Memoria und Utopie in Tito-Jugoslawien, Architekturzentrum Wien 2009.
- Aby WARBURG, Werke in einem Band, Berlin 2010.
Drugo literaturo predavatelj predpiše in svetuje na predavanjih.
Prerequisits
Basic knowledge about art history
Additional information on implementation and assessment - active cooperation at seminars and seminar practice
- proseminar work
- oral exam
(Positive grade of proseminar work is condition
for access to oral exam.)
