Ways of Representation and Modes of Reading
Credits: 2
Core course for First Year
Tzipi Weitzman
Tzipi Weitzman, born in Cyprus, holds a Bachelor's degree in Art History and Hebrew Literature from the Hebrew University, and a Master's degree in Art History and Stage Design from the Hebrew University and the University of Michigan. She teaches at Bezalel, Hadassah College, the Kerem Institute, and the School of Visual Theater. Over the years, she has focused on guiding students from the studio towards an exhibition.
The representation of the human figure will serve as a key to understanding visual syntax in its cultural, conceptual, and formal contexts. Drawing on the fundamental duality in visual art between recognition and vision, we will examine ways of seeing in the history of art as an organized observation that is part of a general world view and a device for shaping consciousness. In the course we will focus, among other things, on body, text and space in the art of the mythopoeic world and the Classical world, on the iterations of motifs and Classical themes in the Christian world until the Baroque, while addressing contemporary contexts.
