十九世紀歐洲的視覺文化、藝術與科技
Visual Culture, Arts, and Science in 19th-Century Europe
| 節 | 週一 |
|---|---|
2 09:00–09:50 | 十九世紀歐洲的視覺文化、藝術與科技 HC514 3 節連堂 |
3 10:10–11:00 | |
4 11:10–12:00 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
This 3-credit seminar, which would be instructed primarily in English, explores vision in 19th-century optical science, medical studies, technology, literature, and the arts, including music. In this era, an improved understanding of the eye in both ophthalmology and optical science spread into the interpretation of vision, including confused vision, in literature, public entertainment history, visual arts, and music. A reserved and even skeptical approach to visual perception became a source of inspiration for authors, composers, and artists to convey this sensory confusion with metaphors, techniques, and modes of expression. This also leads to their attention to other senses, especially the senses of hearing and touch. In theatre and drama, developments in space, light, and staging also coincide with and likely contributed to this new aesthetics of seeing. Understanding visual culture thus may offer and fresh and more comprehensive way to understand how inventions in the arts and literature related to science. This course will be divided into 3 parts. In Part I, we start with new theories, discoveries, and optical devices in both optical science and ophthalmology, which we will study hand in hand with music works, in which vision likely inspired new techniques, acoustics, and instrumentation. In Part II, we delve into literature and visual arts, in which confused vision served as important metaphors and the basis of different techniques and modes of expression. We will consider how and why authors and artists found a manipulated vision appealing from an aesthetic standpoint, and how that also inspired them to shift their attention to other senses and psychology. Part III, we explore vision relative to the use of space, lighting, and staging in the opera and public entertainment. We will study renowned optical illusion in magic shows, including their mechanical aspects, their inventors, and their reception. We will also study inventions in theatrical lighting and acoustic space hand in hand with European theatres and opera houses, relating visual culture to architecture, staging, and dramaturgy. Most readings for the course are in English and will require the ability to read a music score and to do music analysis. Music literacy is therefore required. Undergraduate students are not recommended to take this course for credits but are welcome to sit in as auditors.
Most readings for the course are in English and will require the ability to read a music score and to do music analysis. Music literacy is therefore required. Undergraduate students are not recommended to take this course for credits but are welcome to sit in as auditors.
TBA
Attendance & participation: 30% Midterm presentation (presentation of weekly reading): 30% Term project: 40%
| 週次 | 主題 |
|---|---|
| 第 1 週 | Introduction: visual culture in 19th-century Europe |
| 第 2 週 | Seeing differently Readings: Goethe, Theories of Colours (excerpt) Hoffmann, Sandman Chinese translation: 《睡魔》 Grey, “Tableau vivants: Landscape, Historical Painting, and the Visual Imagination in Mendelssohn’s Orchestral Music,” from 19th-Century Music (1997) Repertory: Offenbach, Les contes d’Hoffmann (Antonia) Mendelssohn, Italian Symhpony |
| 第 3 週 | Reading: Crary, Techniques of the Observer, ch. 4 Chinese translation: 《觀察者的技術:論19世紀的視覺與現代性》 |
| 第 4 週 | Science and visual culture Reading: Tresch, “The Prophet and the Pendulum: Sensational Science and Audiovisual Phantasmagoria around 1848” from Grey Room 43 (2011) (NCTU library, 整合查詢) Repertory: Meyerbeer, Robert le diable |
| 第 5 週 | Haydn, Beethoven, and media technology Reading: Loughridge, Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism (ch. 4: “Haydn’s Creation as Moving Image”) Repertory: Haydn, The Creation |
| 第 6 週 | ETA Hoffmann: troubled vision and the fantastic in literature Reading: Tatar, Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature, ch. 4 (“Blindness and Insight: Visionary Experience in the Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann”) (JSTOR) Repertory: Offenbach, Les contes d’Hoffmann (Olympia) |
| 第 7 週 | Science, magic, and the making of “ghost” Reading: Weeden, The Education of the Eye, ch. 8 (“Pepper’s Ghost”) (JSTOR) Optional reading: Finger, Doctor Franklin’s Medicine, ch. 14 (“From Music Therapy to the Music of Madness”) (JSTOR) |
| 第 8 週 | Reading: Kennaway, Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease & Dolan, “ETA Hoffmann and the Ethereal Technologies of ‘Nature Music’,” from Eighteenth- Century Music (2008) Repertory: Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor (excerpt) |
| 第 9 週 | Der fliegende Holländer and the phantasmagoria Reading: Cruz, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria and Nineteenth-Century Opera Repertory: Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer |
| 第 10 週 | Siegfried and the pleorama Reading: Mungen, “Entering the Musical Picture: Richard Wagner and 19th-Century Multimedia Entertainments” from Music in Arts 26.1-2 (2001) (NCTU library, 整合查詢) Repertory: Wagner, Siegfried |
| 第 11 週 | Berlioz and Symphonie fantastique Reading: Rij, The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz, ch. 3 excerpt (pp. 127-64) Repertory: Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique |
| 第 12 週 | Mendelssohn and the fantastic Readings: Brittan, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz, ch. 6 [electronic book, accessible at NCTU library system] & Shakespeare, The Midsummer Night’s Dream Repertory: Mendelssohn, Overture to The Midsummer Night’s Dream |
| 第 13 週 | Reading: Richards, “Gothic Musical Scenes and the Image of Performance,” from Late Eighteenth- Century Music and Visual Culture Repertory: Weber, Der Freischütz |
| 第 14 週 | Music and magicians Reading: Fillerup, Magicians of Sound, ch. 1 (“Misdirection, or Image, Illusion, and Musical Motion”) Repertory: Ravel, L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (excerpt) |
| 第 15 週 | Listening without seeing Reading: Van Drie, “New Sonic Practices in Late Nineteenth-Century Theater-Going: The Case of the Theatrophone in Paris” from Auditory Culture |
| 第 16 週 | Response against Impressionism: the silhouette painting Reading: Forgione, “’The Shadow Only’: Shadow in Silhouette in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris,” The Art Bulletin 81, no. 3 (NCTU library, 整合查詢) Repertory: Offenbach, Les contes d’Hoffmann (Giulietta) |
| 第 17 週 | National Holiday: NO CLASS |
| 第 18 週 | Presentation of term project |
There is no textbook for this course. Readings will be accessed on the course website and the library's weblink for electronic resources.
- 地點
- HC511 or online (Google Meet)
- 時間
- TBA
- 聯絡方式
- ext. 58316, blblume@nycu.edu.tw