080036 PS Case Study I: Cubism (2018W)

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie

Continuous assessment of course work

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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from We 12.09.2018 10:00 to We 19.09.2018 10:00
Deregistration possible until Tu 09.10.2018 10:00

Details

max. 21 participants

Language: German

Lecturers

Sebastian Egenhofer

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

The Tutorial for the Fallstudie takes place weekly on Thursday 9am -10:30am. The Tutorial is OBLIGATORY.

Thursday 04.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
Thursday 11.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
Thursday 18.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
Thursday 25.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
Thursday 08.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
Thursday 15.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
Thursday 22.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
Thursday 29.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
Thursday 06.12. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
Thursday 13.12. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
Thursday 10.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
Thursday 17.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
Thursday 24.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
Thursday 31.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The participants learn to analyze and describe pictures not only in their thematic and iconographic, but in their formal and structural aspects. With cubist works this is especially difficult and necessary since we often cannot precisely identify the represented objects; the pictures are, however, also not abstract (or non-objective). The thematic and the formal or structural aspect of a description have thus to be closely intertwined. The participants write short descriptive that we read and discuss together. We try as well to establish criteria and templates of good – precise, complete and well-ordered – descriptions. The Seminar focusses on cubist paintings, collages, papiers collés mainly by Picasso and Braque. To gain a better understanding of the break cubism represents within the history of European painting we look back at this tradition under some systematic aspects (the role of linear perspective, the function of chiaroscuro, the relation of representation and facture).
Methodically the Seminar tries to convey basic principles of scientific work: accurate observation, linguistic precision, self-reflection of the own procedures, harmonization of the verbal (grammatical), logical and factual dimensions of the oral and written statements.

Assessment and permitted materials

The participant write short, primarily descriptive texts (8-10.000 signs). The final seminar paper (15-20.000 signs) is an analysis of another cubist painting/work (or a comparison of two works); this paper should include a basic placement or assessment of the discussed work/s with regard to the history of painting.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Precise, at most complete, terminologically correct, plausibly ordered and linguistically accurate description of a painting.

Examination topics