Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
- Theories of Semiotics of the Image: Structural and post-structural semiotics of the Paris School (Algirdas Julien Greimas, Jacques Fontanille, Maria Giulia Dondero).
- Methodologies for the Analysis of Visual grammar. Plastic categories for the analysis of the image (Painting, Photography, Digital Image): topology, form, colour, texture. Rhetoric categories: mereology (relation between the whole and the parts. Discursive categories: enunciation and uttered enunciation.
- Relations between the enunciation and the meta-visual.
- Autography and Allography by N. Goodman: the problem of substrate and marks inscriptions in Painting, Photography and Digital Images
- Analysis of artistic, advertising, documentary and scientific images.
- Visual Genres: The Portrait and the Still Life
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- Initiating students into theoretical and methodological issues of visual semiotics.
- Giving students the tools to analyse and interpret visual languages in different fields of use (artistic, scientific, advertising).
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Duration and period: 30 hours teaching in the 1st term.
Location and times of teaching: Salle Wittert, Mondays from 4pm to 7.00pm.
Recommended or required readings
Required readings:
Maria Giulia Dondero, Les Langages de l'image. De la peinture aux Big Visual Data, Paris, Editions Hermann, 2020.
On Enunciation in Visual Language :
Hamid Reza Shairi & Jacques Fontanille, « Approche sémiotique du regard photographique : deux empreintes de l'Iran contemporain », Actes sémiotiques, 73-74-75, 2001, URL : http://www.unilim.fr/pages_perso/jacques.fontanille/articles_pdf/visuel/semiotiqueregarddanslesphotosorientales.pdf, 2001.
On the relation between support and inscription:
Jacques Fontanille, "Du support matériel au support formel" , in Arabyan & Klock-Fontanille (eds). L'Écriture entre support et surface, Paris : L'Harmattan, pp. 183-200. URL : http://www.unilim.fr/pages_perso/jacques.fontanille/articles_pdf/visuel/Ecritssupportsconclusion.pdf.
On the plastic-figurative analysis of image:
Algirdas Julien Greimas, "Sémiotique figurative et sémiotique plastique", Actes sémiotiques, Documents, VI, 60, 1984. https://www.unilim.fr/actes-semiotiques/5507&file=1
On the statutes of images:
Maria Giulia Dondero, « Les aventures du corps et de l'identité dans la photographie de mode », Actes sémiotiques, 117, 2014. URL: http://epublications.unilim.fr/revues/as/4979 et http://hdl.handle.net/2268/153052
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
Additional information:
Assessment consists of a written exam. The exam includes seven open questions and the analysis of a visual discourse (photographic, pictorial). The focus is on the understanding and application of theories and methodologies. Corrected copies can be consulted by students in the lecturer's office.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Some authors of articles will be invited to give presentations.
Contacts
Professor
Maria Giulia Dondero, Department for Roman Languages and Literature
3-5 Place Cockerill, 4000 Liège, tel. 04.366.5946.
Secretariat: Tel. 04 366 56 50