Art and Literature

Teacher(s)

Dekoninck Ralph; Delmotte Myriam;

Language

French

Main themes

An interdisciplinary approach to different interaction methods between the visual arts and literature.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	At the end of the course, the students should be able to analyse certain types of interaction between the fields of art and literature.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Content

The course will rely on the history of the relations between literatures and plastic arts. Beyond the transfers from one art into the other, we will examine the many historical and thematic intersections between the two creative fields, as well as the aesthetical and philosophical foundations of these intersections. We will explore the different ways in which this dialogue between the arts is implemented : common genres (history, portrait, landscape'); reciprocal inclusions of image and text; free creations from one art with the tools of the other, etc. The methodology will be interdisciplinary, working at the crossroads of literature, art history, aesthetics, semiology, etc.

Evaluation methods

Assessment: oral examination and individual assignment.

Other information

Course materials: The literary works studied are in French. The course is given using PowerPoint materials. The information provided will appear on iCampus. Supervision: two teachers: an art historian and a French literature specialist.

Faculty or entity

FIAL