| Course title | |||||
| 文学・芸術学 [Art and Literature] | |||||
| Course category | general education courses | Requirement | Credit | 2 | |
| Department | Year | 3～4 | Semester | 3rd | |
| Course type | 3rd | Course code | 020203 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 大野 松彦 [OONO Matsuhiko] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Graduate School of Agriculture | Office | afjgxte/L1151 | Email address | |
| Course description |
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Literature and Art are inherently neither practical tools nor entertainment works, but imaginative creations made by the human spirit. It is said that literary and artistic works are indispensable to the formation of the human spirit. In this lecture, we regard the relationship between literature and visual arts as "words and images" and will learn about how art is perceived and recognized, through seeing the western art history from the ancient times to the modern ages. We also consider how western literary images, including artistic idea and subject matter, had related to visual expressions and how architectural, sculptural, and pictorial styles of each period had developed, with paying attention to historical contexts of the philosophy and the science. This course is offered as a course for Humanities and Social Sciences in the General Education curriculum. |
| Expected Learning |
| As Homo Logos, we use language as a main tool of communication. In addition to daily-life conversation and literature (novels and poems), natural sciences have a numerical formula, music has a scores, and art has a visual languages. Since the dawn of history, human beings had developed visual language, including letters and symbols, and in the present time we come every day in contact with many visual images through landscapes and the internet; art is its ultimate expressive form. In this lecture, we will consider why human beings create literary and artistic works, and our standards of learning states will be able to perceive artistic work and to describe it in own word. |
| Course schedule |
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Week 1. Introduction I: Word and Image, True and Good and Beauty. Week 2. Introduction II: Sense, Perception, Recognition. Week 3. Antiquity I: Greek Art as Classic of Western Art. Week 4. Antiquity II: Hellenistic Period ? Expansion of Greek Art into the Mediterranean. Week 5. Antiquity III: Roman Art ? Inheritance of Greek Art and Monumental Art of Emperors. Week 6. From the Ancient to the Middle Ages: Turn of the Art-theory (Idea). Week 7. Middle ages I: the Dawn of European Art ? A creative integration of Celtic-Germanic culture and Mediterranean Civilization. Week 8. Middle ages II: Gothic Art 1 ? the first pan-European Art style. Week 9. Middle ages III: Gothic Art 2 ? Integration of Naturalism and Idealism. Week 10. From the Medieval to the Modernity: Phenomenon of Renaissance as rebirths of the Antique. Week 11. Modern ages I: Renaissance 1 ? Creation of sensual beauty based on new visual image. Week 12. Modern ages II: Renaissance 2 ? Realism, Empiricism, Rationalism. Week 13. Modern ages III: From Baroque to Modern. Week 14. Modern Art: Anti-Classicalism and the path to a new visual Image. Week 15. Conclusion. |
| Prerequisites |
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The conditions for taking this course are to have an interest in art or questions, for instance, what is art essentially and what is perception or visual sensation. In addition to 30 hours in the classes, students are recommended to prepare for and review the classes, spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Because art-book is generally expensive, a lecturer do not designate a textbook. Instead of that, a lecturer provide students a resume of each topic. |
| References |
| New History of Would Art. Western, Tokyo, Shogakukan, 1992-1997; A History of Western Art, Tokyo, Chuokoron-Shinsya, 2016-2017. On the other reference publications, a lecturer provides as necessary the suitable for the topic in the course. |
| Assessment/Grading |
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Class participation (30%): Take account of your participation and attitude to the class, and remarks or impressions on comment sheets. Middle report (30%): Evaluate your interest in literal and artistic works and its sensual, intellectual perception. Final report (40%): Evaluate your description and writing on literature and art. |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| It seems for students, majoring the science and technology, that literature and art might be a far subject, but the term “art” originally meant “skill (techne).” Natural science has made rapid progress from the scientific revolution in the 17th century up to now, but psychological phenomena, belonging to the human spiritual world (Life, Death, True, Good, Beauty, God, etc.), and its perception has not been clarified in the physical ways. Therefore, it is not wasted for you to touch literature and art as a representation of the human spirit, to cultivate life quality and to develop sensibilities. |
| Course keywords |
| Aesthetic, Art History, Art Critique, Word and Image |
| Office hours |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| English |
| Last update |
| 3/9/2020 4:29:12 PM |