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IPLUSO 7243

Visual Culture

Illustration and Drawing
  • ApresentaçãoPresentation
    Visual culture is the discipline that will provide students with a broad knowledge of visual art, from the beginnings of humanity to the present day, through critical and historical concepts that contribute to a broad understanding of the images that we routinely see and manipulate.
  • ProgramaProgramme
    1. Introduction to Visual Culture: Problematisation of the field and operative concepts; visual literacy and the culture of looking; connotation and meaning of images. 2. Regimes of visuality and technologies of the image: Vision and Visuality; gender and the gaze; Meaning, Discourse and Representation; the myth of photographic truth; Benjamin and technical reproducibility. 3. Images, power, identity and politics: Devices and power dynamics; Cultural industries and ideology in contemporary times.
  • ObjectivosObjectives
    The students are expected to acquire theoretical and practical skills in the field of Visual Culture and Image Theory, with special focus on illustration. To do so, the students must approach image and illustration in its conceptual characteristics, artistic language, intertext and practice (in relation to the context of its production/reception and other objects). Students should acquire skills that prepare them for the act of looking, researching, problematizing and critically connecting imagens, supports and contexts. Focused on the contemporary paradigms, this CU should allow the students to identify those in their specific contexts. The students are expected to be able to produce critical (and artistic) discourse on the different expressions of illustration and to consciously position themselves in relation to their own artistic practices.
  • BibliografiaBibliography
    BUTLER, Judith (1990), Gender Trouble : Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge. BERGER, J. (1972), Modos de ver, Lisboa: Ed 70. DEBORD, G. (2012), A Sociedade do Espectáculo. Lisboa: Antígona. Foster, Hal (1998), Vision and Visuality, Bay Press, Seattle. JONES, Amelia (2003), The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. Ed. Jones Amelia. London: Routledge. MEDEIROS, Margarida;CASTRO, Teresa,“O Que É a Cultura Visual?” Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 2017,pp. 1–7 MIRZOEFF, Nicholas (1999) An Introduction to Visual Culture. London: Routledge. MULVEY, L. (2009), Visual and Other Pleasures, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. MITCHELL, W.J.T.  (2005), What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. STURKEN, Marita;  CARTWRIGHT,Lisa: Practices of Looking. An Introduction to Visual Culture,Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2003
  • MetodologiaMethodology
    The teaching methodology consists of oral and visual presentation (Slideshow, movies and documentaries, artworks, illustrations, artist’s books) followed by debate in class. All teaching materials will be available on Moodle in advance and will be assigned to each weekly lesson. Students are advised to consult them beforehand so that they are prepared to discuss and ask questions in class(Fliped Classroom). In addition, Moodle is also the platform for communication and interaction with students regarding announcements, lesson planning, the distribution of assignments and the timetable for the various assessment moments.
  • LínguaLanguage
    Português
  • TipoType
    Semestral
  • ECTS
    5
  • NaturezaNature
    Mandatory
  • EstágioInternship
    Não