History of the Image
Code
711011022
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
This discipline has the following objectives:
a) Promoting the knowledge of the key moments in the Histroy of Image;
b) Puting these key moments in contexto, cultura and historical;
c) Developping the acknowledging of the main theoretical moments about History of Image;
d) Promoting the ability for contextual analysis of a specific image, taking diferent methodological approaches.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1.Discussing the term Image and the possibilities of its history.
2. The importance and significance of the first prehisoric images
3. The sacred image and the cult value. The iconoclam of 8th century
4. The realistic image: the invention of perspective: a perspectiva na pintura Renascentista.
4.1.The camera obscura and the painting: Vermeer e Descartes.
4.2.Claude Lorrains Mirror and its influence in landscape of xvii landscape painting
5. The lens-based-image
5.1.The invention of Photography
5.2.1. The photographic practices and its relation to social experience.
5.2. The invention of cinema
5.2.1. The prehistory of cinema: the fantasmagoria and the magic lanterna.
5.2.2. The pioneers of cinema
6. The Video and the television
7. The Digital Image
Bibliography
WARNER, Marina (2006) Phantasmagoria. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
GRAU, Oliver (2003) Virtual Art, From Illusion to Immersion. Cambridge, Massachussets, The MIT Press.
BATCHEN, Geoffrey, Burning with desire: the conception of photography, London/Massachussets, The MIT Press, 1997.
CLARKE, Graham (1997) The Photograph. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
KRACAUER, Sigfried (1936), The Mass Ornament and Other Weimar Essays. Cambridge, Massachussts, London: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Teaching method
Exposition by the teacher, commenting and depcting the main topics of the syllabu, showing the most possible of imagens and short documentaries, inviting participation from students.
Evaluation method
Assistance to the classes;
A written paper with no more than 8000 words;
Presencial evaluation, which consists of a short essay upon a theme of the syllabus chosen by
the teacher.