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Aesthetic Cognition - BA ( forår 2010 - 15 ECTS )

Rammer for udbud

• Uddannelsessprog: engelsk
• Niveau: BA
• Semester/kvarter: 1 semester
• Timer per uge: 2 every second week
• Deltagerbegrænsning: None
• Undervisningssted: Århus
• Hovedområde: Det Humanistiske Fakultet
• Udbud ID: 18366

Formål

In the evaluation of the student's exam performance, special emphasis is placed on evaluating the extent to which the student:

• Can use the key cognitive theories and concepts on a meaning expression.
• Can document an ability to define relevant significance elements in both pictures and texts.
• Can document an ability to compare and contrast cultural meaning phenomena.
• Can document independent production ability.

Indhold

NB! The courses Aesthetic Cognition and Text Analysis in combination give 15 ECTS.

The course introduces to the formal means artists dispose of to inscribe meaning in the work of art. Some of these means are genuinely aesthetic, other are not; the latter exploit features that are intrinsically significant in perception. Therefore the course introduces to some of those properties of everyday perception and the visual system that artists use to produce specific meaning effects in their paintings. The course aims at demonstrating that artworks are accessible to rational description and that it is possible to provide with (partial) objective determinations of how and why a given artwork means what it means. Recurrent references are Rudolf Arnheim, Roman Ingarden, Gestalt Theory, Donald D. Hoffman, Michael Leyton and others.

Faglige forudsætninger

2 years study in a discipline of the Humanities

Underviser

Peer Bundgård

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

Classroom teaching

Litteratur

Michael Leyton: The Structure of Paintings
Rudolf Arnheim: Visual Thinking
Ernst Gombrich: Art and Illusion

Studieordning og bedømmelse

Suppleringsfaget i kognitiv semiotik

• Mundtlig, bedømt efter 7-skala med ekstern censur

Oral