The latvian academy of culture

BA STUDY PROGRAMME Part B

Description of the Study Course

The Name of the Course: Analysis of a Work of Art

The Scope of the Course: 192 academic hours (132 hours of lectures, 60 hours of seminars).

12 credit points. The form of assessment – a written test at the end of Terms 1,3 and 5, a written and oral examination in Terms 2, 4 and 6.

The Author of the Course: Lecturer Agris Redovics
Preconditions for the Acquisition of the Course: Prior knowledge in the world history of politics and culture. Proficiency in foreign and Latvian literary languages.
The Contents of the Course: The course introduces to the typology of analysis of a work of art in different periods and the actual methods of discussion, as well as gives an insight into the application of these methods in film interpretation and analysis.

The Thematic Planning:

XCVIII.Theme	Week	Type of classes and hours
1. The notion of a work of art, its creation.	1	L2
2. Plato: art and its place in society.	2 3, 4	L2
3. Aristotle. Catharsis and mimesis. Poetics.	3, 4	L2; S2
4. The artistic culture of Ancient Rome. Naturalism, globalism, individualism.	5, 6	L2; L2
5. Antique rhetoric. Quintilian.	7, 8	L2; S2
6. Art in the system of thought of stoicism.	9	L2
7. Plotinus. Transcendental beauty.	10	L2
8. Boethius: a work of art.	11, 12	L2; S2
9. St. Augustine. Commensurability and opposites.	13	L2
10. Thomas Aquinas. Harmony and symbols in art.	14, 15	L2; S2
11. Carneval Culture in the Middle Ages.	16	L2
12. The specific criteria of art in the period of the Renaissance.	17	L2
13. Classicism. Boileau. The Art of Poetry.	18, 19	L2; S2
14. G. Baumgarten. The theory of art becomes science.	20, 21	L2;S2
15. I. Kant. The subjective and the objective quality of works of art.	22,23	L2; S2
16. The artistic principles of Romanticism.	24	L2
17. G.F. Hegel. The dialectic approach to a work of art.	25,26	L2; L2
18. C.A. Sainte-Beuve. A biographical method.	27,28	L2;S2
19. H. Taine. The Philosophy of Art.	29,30	L2; S2
20. W. Dilthey. A method of the history of spirit.	31	L2
21. F. Nietzsche. The tragic in art.	32,33	L2; S2
22. A. Bergson. Intuition in art.	34,35	L2;S2
23. Symbolism.	36,37	L2;S2
24. Modernism.	38	L2
25. B. Croce. Beauty as self-value.	39	L2; S2
26. Ortega y Gasset. Dehumanization of art.	40	L2
27. J. Huizinga. Homo Ludens.	41,42	L2; S2
28. Dadaism.	43,44	L2;S2
29. Surrealism.	45,46	L2; S2
30. Constructivism.	47,48	L2;S2
31. Social realism.	49,50	L2;S2
32. Psychoanalytical critics.	51	L2
33. Existentialism.	52	L2
34. Structuralism.	53,54	L2; S2
35. Post-modernism.	55,56	L2;S2
36. Art as a language.	57,58	L2;L2
37. The notion of a text.	59,60	L2; S2
38. Hermeneutic analysis.	61	L2
39. The structure of informative texts.	62,63	L2; S2
40. Intertextuality.	64	L2
41. R. Barthes. Death of the Author.	65,66	L2; S2
42. Paradigms of an artistic text.	67	L2
43. L. Vygotsky. Psychology of art.	68,69	L2;L2
44. The basic notions of semiotics.	70	L2
45. The semiotics of visual information.	71,72,73	L2; S2;S2
46. A cyberpunk theory.	74,75	L2;L2
47. The role of art criticism in the social environment of an individual.	76	L2
48. The formal analysis of a film. The concept of a film.	77	L2
49. Narrative systems.	78,79	L2; S2
50. Non-narrative systems.	80,81	L2;S2
51. Editing.	82,83,84	L2; L2; S2
52. Sound in a film.	85,86	L2;S2
53. Rhetoric in film analysis.	87	L2
54. Film style.	88,89	L2; S2
55. The rhythm and intonation of a film.	90,91	L2;L2
56. Film criticism. Film review as a genre.	92,93	L2;L2
57. Film semiotics.	94,95,96	L2; L2; S2

Requirements for the Acquisition of Credit Points:

9. 
   A positive assessment in seminars.
   
10. 
    Successfully passed tests and examination.
    

Literature:

15. 
    Antīkā pasaule Latvijā, R., 1998
    
16. 
    Rubenis A. Senās Grieķijas kultūra
    
17. 
    Rubenis A. Senās Romas kultūra
    
18. 
    Losevs A. Hellēnisma – Romas estētika, M., 1979
    
19. 
    Estētikas vēsture. Pasaules estētikas domas pieminekļi., 1.-5. sēj., M., 1962 – 1964.
    
20. 
    Gilberta K., Kūns H. Estētikas vēsture., M., 1994
    
21. 
    Franču sirreālism antoloģija, M., 1994
    
22. 
    Heizinga J. Homo Ludens., M., 1962
    
23. 
    Jampoļskis M, Tirēsija atmiņa., M., 1993
    
24. 
    Lotmans J., Mākslinieciskā teksta struktūra., M., 1970
    
25. 
    Ivanovs V. Semiotikas un kutūras vēstures darbu izlase., 1. sēj., M., 1998
    
26. 
    Bordwell D., Thompson C. Film Art: An Introduction, USA, 1993
    
27. 
    Bordwell D. Narration in the Fiction Film, USA, 1985
    
28. 
    Bordwell D. On the History of Film Style, Engl., 1997
    
29. 
    Oxford Guide to Film Studies, Oxford, 1998