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Subject 'Photographic Representation and Expression. Landscape Photography'

Name in Estonian: Fotograafiline representatsioon ja -väljendus.Maastikufotograafia

Year:   2014/2015    2015/2016    2016/2017    2017/2018    2018/2019    

State codeFE.41.02
Study languageEstonian
ChairDepartment of Photography
Credit points 3 ECTS
Grading method Distinctive

General description

• landscape and territory: the evolution of landscape;
• landscape as a territorial and aesthetic notion;
• the historical forms of landscape: landscape as the representation of real estate in the period of early capitalism;

• the dissolution of the aesthetic category in the genre of landscape
• the reinvigoration of locus (space, place and region) in contemporary art;
• space as the product and the indicator of social relations;
• personal, historical and political loci and landscapes.

Study outcome

On successful completion of this course the students should be able to:
• have a systematic knowledge of one of the central genres of visual art: the landscape;
• know how the landscape genre was formed and its contemporary importance;
• navigate in the complexity of landscape genre and it's blurred borders;
• create works on landscape that are relevant in the contemporary context;
• critically assess the commercialization of landscape genre;
• create effective and complete works in the landscape genre;
• analyze the significatory potential of different loci as the source material for their work;
• differentiate between typological and narrative photographic arrays;

Is taught in following curricula

2019: 2271  
2018: 2271  
2017: 2271  
2016: 2271  
2015: 2271  
2014: 2271  
2013: 2271  

Is taught in rounds

     2019/2020 Spring semester

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