Universität Wien

080071 UE Course: The Problem of Storytelling in Art from the 18th Century to the Present Day (2019S)

Continuous assessment of course work

Anmeldefrist für MA-Studierende: 06.02. (10:00 Uhr) - 12.02. (10:00 Uhr)

Anmeldefrist für BA-Studierende: 15.02. (10:00 Uhr)- 18.02. (10:00 Uhr)

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).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Eventuell muss eine Sitzung Anfang April (3.4 oder 10.4) entfallen. Sollte es nötig werden, würde es aber ggf. noch separat angekündigt und dann nachgeholt.

Wednesday 06.03. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
Wednesday 13.03. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
Wednesday 20.03. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
Wednesday 27.03. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
Wednesday 03.04. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
Wednesday 10.04. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
Wednesday 08.05. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
Wednesday 15.05. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
Wednesday 22.05. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
Wednesday 29.05. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
Wednesday 05.06. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
Wednesday 12.06. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
Wednesday 19.06. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
Wednesday 26.06. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The seminar is in German. However, many of the texts are in English and the presentation may potentially be given in English.
The Problem of Narrative in visual art is multifold and may concern the "how" as well as the "if" of narrative. Conveying a temporal narrative in a (especially: single) image or sculpture is not trivial and different artists have sought to do so in different ways, for instance by depicting several moments explicitly or by choosing a "pregnant" moment of a story to lead viewers to imagine what happened. Since the 19th century, narrative has also come under attack as being foreign to visual art. However, art has always been accompanied by stories told about artists and artworks and they are a problem to be studied in their own right.

Assessment and permitted materials

Active participation in class, presentation of the arguments of one article, as well as analysis of the argument of another article in written form. The texts may be chosen from the literature given below or you may suggest a text you want to discuss to Klaus Speidel.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Regular participation, talk, analyzing the argument of a text
Criteria: Precision of your analysis, originality and adequacy of chosen examples

Examination topics

Reading list

*Paul Barolsky, “There is no such thing as narrative art”, Arion 18(2), pp. 111-123, 2010
*Jacob Burckhardt, “Über erzählende Malerei” (1884), Jacob Burckhardts Werke. Kritische Gesamtausgabe, Bd. 13, Vorträge 1870-1892. München 2003, pp. 446-457.
Bernard Dieterle, Erzählte Bilder. Zum narrativen Umgang mit Gemälden, Marburg, 1988.
*James Elkins, “Time and Narrative”, The Visual Chapter, unfinished essay published on http://www.jameselkins.com/html/upcoming.html
Thomas Gaehtgens/Uwe Fleckner (eds.), Historienmalerei, Berlin, 1996
*Nelson Goodman, “Twisted Tales of Story, Study, and Symphony”, Critical Inquiry 7. 1980. Reprinted in Nelson Goodman, Of Mind and Other Matters, Cambridge, 1984.
*Ann Landi, “Telling Stories in Three Dimensions: Installation Art Today”, Art News, January 2015
Andrea Pinotti, “Story-telling: Typologies of iconic narratives”, Olga Pombo (ed.), Image in Science and Art, Fim de Século, Lisbon, 2017, pp. 33-58
Harold Rosenberg, “The American Action Painters”, Art News 51/8, Dec. 1952
Clement Greenberg, “Modernist Painting” in John O’Brian (ed.), Clement Greenberg. The Collected Essays and Criticism, UO Chicago Press, Chicago/London, 1986
*Peter Hühn, “Visual narratives: Narration in paintings and photographs”, Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 56, 2015, pp. 349-365
Roman Ingarden, “Das Bild”, Untersuchungen zur Ontologie der Kunst, Tübingen, 1962
*W. J. T. Mitchell, “The Politics of Genre: Space and Time in Lessing's Laocoon”, Representations, No. 6, Spring 1984
Bence Nanay, “Narrative pictures”, The journal of aesthetics and art criticism 67(1), 2009, pp. 119-129
Lut Pil, “Clement Greenberg on Narrative in Painting”, Jan Baetens & Mireille Ribière (eds.), Time, Narrative & the Fixed Image, Rodopi, Amsterdam/Atlanta, 2001
Gerald Prince, “Revisiting Narrativity”, Walter Grünzweig/Andreas Solbach (eds.), Grenzüberschreitungen : Narratologie im Kontext/Transcending Boundaries : Narratology in Context, Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 1999, pp. 43-51
*Eleanor Heartney, "Art & Narrative", Art & Today. London, 2013, pp. 121-141
Emma Kafalenos, „Implications of Narrative in Painting and Photography“, New Novel Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1996
Wolfgang Kemp, „Bilderzählung“, Glasmeier, Michael (ed.), Erzählen: eine Anthologie, Berlin 1994, pp. 55-69
*Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Laokoon oder Über die Grenzen der Malerei und der Poesie. Berlin 1766
Peggy Phelan, “Shards of a History of Performance Art: Pollock and Namuth Through a Glass, Darkly”, James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz (eds.), A Companion to Narrative Theory, Oxford/London, 2005, 499-511
Michael Ranta, “(Re-)Creating order: Narrativity and implied world views in pictures”, Storyworlds 5, 2013 pp. 1-30
Rick Altman, A theory of narrative. New York, 2008.
Jean-Marie Schaeffer, “Narration visuelle et interprétation”, Jan Baetens & Mireille Ribière (eds.), Time, Narrative & the Fixed Image, Rodopi, Amsterdam/Atlanta, 2001
Scheuermann, Barbara J., „Narreme, Unbestimmtheitsstellen, Stimuli – Erzählen im fotografischen Einzelbild“, Lars Blunck (ed.), Die fotografische Wirklichkeit. Inszenierung. Fiktion. Narration, Bielefeld, 2010
Tobias Schöttler, “Pictorial narrativity: Transcending intrinsically incomplete representations”, Natalia Igl & Sonja Zeman (eds.), Perspectives on narrativity and narrative perspectivization, John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 2016, pp. 161–182.
Yeshayahu Shen and Efrat Biberman, “A Story Told by a Picture”, Image & Narrative, Vol 11, No 2, 2010
Michael Titzmann, “Theoretisch-methodologische Probleme einer Semiotik der Text-Bild-Relationen”, Wolfgang Harms (dir.), Text und Bild, Bild und Text : DFG-Symposium, 1988, Metzler, Stuttgart, 1988
*Werner Wolf, “Intermediale Erzähltheorie”, Ansgar & Vera Nünning (eds.), Erzähltheorie transgenerisch, intermedial, interdisziplinär, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier, 2002

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