視覺藝術與文學:探索交叉點(文類課:其他)
Visual Art and Literature: Exploring Intersections(Genre:Other)
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5 13:20–14:10 | 視覺藝術與文學:探索交叉點(文類課:其他) HC401 3 節連堂 |
6 14:20–15:10 | |
7 15:30–16:20 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
This course explores the relationship between art and literature in an age when literature itself is being challenged as the preferred medium of presentation and communication of critical thought and inspirational ideas guiding societal well-being. Literature and philosophy have been in some respects eclipsed by the emergence of new and traditional technologies in the visual and other arts offering extra-textual means of engaging issues facing individuals, societies, and other species of life. These forms of media include videos on YouTube, podcasts, museum and installation art, T-shirts and consumer items featuring art and texts, performance art, film genres, and conceptual art (which can take any form, often encapsulated by short texts). While poets are inspired by paintings and monuments, artists use textual elements such as titles to provoke and challenge established ways of thinking, often shocking viewers. Through a selection of artworks ranging from modern to contemporary, students will examine the diverse ways in which language is integrated into visual compositions. Drawing from various artistic movements and mediums, this course aims to deepen students' understanding of the interplay between visual and textual elements in art. Implied idiomatic expressions and concepts specific to a local language as they appear in creative works are within the purview of the course. Students are encouraged to engage in research in any linguistic and artistic milieu, going beyond the starting point of this seminar. Moreover, nontraditional video essay or hybrid presentations are encouraged. Objectives of this course include rethinking genres and mediums in light of how cross-medium references invoke contemporary problems often while indexing historical intertexts from any mediums of artistic creativity (including literature, painting, sculpture, film, and music). The course aims to engage artistic mediums so as to foreground the growing dominance of the digital, the relation of texts to art projects and art to textual, intertextual, intermedia, and intercultural creative production today.
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Lecture and discussion. Students introduce the day's reading (in seminar format) View/discuss assigned and presented artworks and literary works.
Students will present analyses of readings and assigned artworks in class presentations (at least 2). (20%) Midterm interpretive video. (20%) Active participation in peer critique. (20%) Final research or creative project. (40%) Attendance is handled separately: 2 points are subtracted from the final grade for each absence (counted as being more than 5 minutes late to class).
| 週次 | 主題 |
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| 第 1 週 | Introduction to course Language in visual art Key concepts: intertextuality, intersectional identities, representation, nationality versus family and personal histories, text as image/image as text, semiotics, and the visual, the postcolonial, and the male/postcolonial gaze |
| 第 2 週 | Conceptual Art and Process (situation AI and algorithms in artistic configurations and productions) Readings: Daniel Marzona and Uta Grosenick, "ideas, systems, processes," the introduction to Conceptual Art (2005) Jeffrey Shaw, "New-media art and the renewal of the cinematic imaginary" |
| 第 3 週 | Language in art (early explorations across cultures): Dada and Surrealism Artists: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, Paul Eluard, Kitagawa Fuyuhiko Analyzing the use of language and wordplay in Dada and Surrealist artworks. TBA or... Reading: D. Brink, "Postcolonial Positioning and Japanese Imperial Affect in Interwar Dada Prose Poems," Postcolonial Studies 21(3), 2018: 302-316. DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2018.1479143 |
| 第 4 週 | Conceptual Art: Examining language as the primary medium Artists: Lawrence Weiner, Jenny Holzer, Joseph Kosuth Reading: TBA (from Rippl) |
| 第 5 週 | Pop Art and Textual Elements: Exploring the incorporation of advertising slogans, comic strips, and textual fragments in Pop Art Artists: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Others Related poetry (famous examples): poems and art criticism by John Ashbery |
| 第 6 週 | Presenting exposure to language Intermedia intertexts in form and minutiae: Hsia Yu’s First Person, others Reading: TBA (from Rippl) |
| 第 7 週 | Beckett on Film (language as abstraction in short performance art/theatre) Compare Vito Acconci, Open Book (1974) with versions of Beckett's Not I (https://vimeo.com/28755467). Preview excerpts from Beckett's other short theatrical pieces rendered in experimental film (with professional actors): Come and Go, Play, That Time, and Quad Reading: Gibson, Andrew. Beckett and Badiou: The pathos of intermittency. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 233-53. |
| 第 8 週 | More Visual Artists Featuring Language: Jenny Holzer, Xu Bing, Ed Ruscha, others Reading: TBA |
| 第 9 週 | Student short interpretive films or presentations |
| 第 10 週 | Political Commentary and Protest Art: Investigating the use of language in art as a tool for social and political critique Artists: Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Barbara Kruger Reading: TBA (from Rippl) |
| 第 11 週 | Visual and Words in Grids: Ancient Ritual Weavings or Data Spreadsheets? Examples from poets and artists. Krauss, Rosalind. “Grids.” October, vol. 9, 1979, pp. 51–64. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/778321. Accessed 12 Mar. 2024. |
| 第 12 週 | Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetry Based on Film/TV Programs David Trinidad (Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera); Danez Smith; others Reading: Poetry selection |
| 第 13 週 | Contemporary Ekphrasis: Larry Rivers/Frank O'Hara; William Carlos Williams/Pieter Brueghel; Paul Cezanne/Allen Ginsberg; others. Reading: TBA (from Rippl) |
| 第 14 週 | Political Remixing of Pop Classics “Aubade with Burning City” by Ocean Vuong, after Irving Berlin's "White Christmas"; others. Reading: from Remix |
| 第 15 週 | Printmaking in relation to print media Maria do Carmo de Freitas Veneroso, “The Expanded Field of Printmaking: Continuities, Ruptures, Crossings, and Contamination” (2015) |
| 第 16 週 | Student presentations (film or research) |
All readings will be supplied through online links and PDFs of readings distributed through the e3 system. Recommended (free access through library): Rippl, Gabriele. Handbook of Intermediality: Literature - Image - Sound - Music, Berlin, München, Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110311075
- 地點
- HC 415
- 時間
- Between 1pm and 3pm on Wednesdays; by appointment.
- 聯絡方式
- brink@nycu.edu.tw x58115