Elements of Aesthetics

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Subject guarantor:

Giovanni Battista ROBBIANO

Name of lecturer(s):

Giovanni Battista ROBBIANO

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Aesthetics is the base of artistic communication and expression.

Students must be capable to understand the system of the arts and its basic principles and features. They are required to understand the sense of beauty through Aesthetics and the criteria to evaluate artistic forms and artistic developments, currents, movements and trends as well as mange the basic features of semiotics and semiology. They must altogether be familiar with forms of artistic expression in any field, visual, literary, music, as well as understand completely concepts like form, meaning, symbol, structure, norm and else. Basic introduction to De Saussure’s essays, linguistic, semiotics and semiology. Filmmakers are artists and aesthetics is the base of their work. Any filmmaker must be aware of its position in the world and his research into art; any filmmaker must know origins of art expression, of the discipline he is involved and the historical development of art as a phenomenon, a process, a technique (or a system of techniques) as well as a fundamental social element of life.

Mode of study:

class work and or lectures

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

A general knowledge of art history and theory.

Course contents:

Course is divided into three parts: aesthetics of visual arts, aesthetics and semiology of film and theory of beauty and system of the arts.

Recommended or required reading:

During the course some texts will be suggested. It is obligatory to read or know Christian Metz’s “Language and Cinema” (https://books.google.cz/books?id=mR-sLfya1hsC&redir_esc=y)

Assessment methods and criteria:

GRADING POLICY

Class Attendance - 50%

Class Participation - 25%

Final paper/oral evaluation- 25%

Course web page:

Note:

Three blocks, three teachers.

Schedule for winter semester 2017/2018:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu	room 233 Room No. 4 (Lažanský palác) ROBBIANO G. 10:40–13:55 (paralelka 1)
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Thu	10:40–13:55	Giovanni Battista ROBBIANO	Room No. 4 Lažanský palác		paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Cinema and Digital Media - Directing-1718 (qualification subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting-1718 (qualification subject)