SEMIOTICS OF VISUAL ARTS
SEMIOTICA DELLE ARTI VISIVE
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| 2022/2023 | 6 |
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| Tiziana Maria Migliore | Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, at the end of the lessons, by appointment via e-mail |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
French
Spanish
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course provides in-depth knowledge and skills for the semiotic analysis of artworks and their exhibition, museum and urban spaces.
Students will learn a method for reading the meanings of artistic texts from different genres: drawing, painting, comics, sculpture, architecture, photography, installation, video art, performance. They will investigate their modes of communication and circulation, physical and digital, and receptions by audiences. They will learn to distinguish the work of art from the artistic text and image and to understand how the text gives instructions for its public display in an exhibition. They will acquire critical judgement skills in the field of art.
Particular attention will be paid to the format of the art text in urban art, in terms of measurements, weight, volume, proportions and scale, especially when macroscopic or microscopic, functional to elicit sensory, passionate and pragmatic reactions.
Program
CLASS CONTENTS LESSON BY LESSON:
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and understanding - Students will have to demonstrate an understanding of the differences between artistic text, work and image and be able to connect the work to the space in which it is located and the device within which it is activated. In particular, they will learn the meanings, values and powers of the dimensions of works and the jumping scale.
Applying knowledge and understanding - Students will be able to semiotically analyse artistic texts of different genres and the devices within which they operate.
Making judgements - Students will be able to make critical judgements about competence in the field of art and will learn to discover through which characteristics even an object or an everyday practice can become art.
Communication - Students will expound with clarity and argumentative skills the ways in which artistic texts are internally articulated and the elements of the spaces that implement and activate them for audiences.
Learning skills - By the end of the course students should have acquired familiarity with the art world. They will know how to correctly use concepts and tools for describing artistic texts, which they will also examine critically. They will be able to explain how an art text functions in its device and space and what cognitive, pathemic and pragmatic effects it triggers.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
Students will be required to follow a seminar (2 hours) organised by the CiSS, International Center of Semiotic Sciences Umberto Eco of the University of Urbino.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures and oral exercises.
The course includes:
lectures
group work and written work
oral presentations
participatory lectures in which the work presented will be discussed.
- Innovative teaching methods
The innovative teaching method will be enriched with individual and group exercises and insights. Some topics of the course will be treated following the practices of the debate and of the visual thinking.
- Attendance
A seminar (2 hours) organised by the CiSS, International Center of Semiotic Sciences Umberto Eco of the University of Urbino.
- Course books
Migliore T., "The Semiotic Method", in Actas del 14. Congreso Mundial de Semiótica IASS-AIS (Buenos Aires, 2019), Trajectorias, volumen 8, Conferencias Plenarias, a cura di O. Steinberg, O. Traversa, G. Cingolani, Libros de Crítica. Área Transdepartamental de Crítica de Artes, Buenos Aires, pp. 185-198.
- Assessment
Oral exam aimed at ascertaining the mastery of knowledge relating to the discipline and the understanding of concepts and tools of the semiotics method. The examination will provide an assessment of thirty.
Grading:
Excellent grades will be given in presence of: a good critical perspective and in depth knowledge; the ability to link the main subjects addressed during the course; the expert use of appropriate language and terminology.
Good grades will be given in presence of: good mnemonic knowledge of the course content; a relatively good critical perspective and the ability to connect its themes; the use of an appropriate language.
Sufficient grades will be given in presence of: minimal knowledge of the course's themes and the presence of some gaps in understanding; the use of an inappropriate language.
Low grades will be given in presence of: difficulty in understanding the course's topics; notable gaps in knowledge; the use of a clearly inappropriate language.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Part-time students are invited to write to the professor and to consult the teaching material (handouts, slides, examples of textual analysis, Dictionary of Semiotics) that will be uploaded on Moodle Platform during the course.
- Course books
The set text for part-time students is:
Migliore T., "The Semiotic Method", in Actas del 14. Congreso Mundial de Semiótica IASS-AIS (Buenos Aires, 2019), Trajectorias, volumen 8, Conferencias Plenarias, a cura di O. Steinberg, O. Traversa, G. Cingolani, Libros de Crítica. Área Transdepartamental de Crítica de Artes, Buenos Aires, pp. 185-198.
- Assessment
Oral exam aimed at ascertaining the mastery of knowledge relating to the discipline and the understanding of concepts and tools of the semiotics method. The examination will provide an assessment of thirty.
Grading:
Excellent grades will be given in presence of: a good critical perspective and in depth knowledge; the ability to link the main subjects addressed during the course; the expert use of appropriate language and terminology.
Good grades will be given in presence of: good mnemonic knowledge of the course content; a relatively good critical perspective and the ability to connect its themes; the use of an appropriate language.
Sufficient grades will be given in presence of: minimal knowledge of the course's themes and the presence of some gaps in understanding; the use of an inappropriate language.
Low grades will be given in presence of: difficulty in understanding the course's topics; notable gaps in knowledge; the use of a clearly inappropriate language.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
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