Introductory readings
please follow the links and the attachments entitled: Lviv_seminar_01, _02 etc. avaliable at:
http://www.wh.agh.edu.pl/main/pl/materialy-dydaktyczne [search: Olszewska]
1. the idea of iconosphere in Europe - reintroducing visual studies after 1960’
Porębski M., L’Iconosphére, Perspectives Polonaises, 1973 (16), 11, p. 11-22
[see: Lviv_seminar_01 zip, choice of : french, german and polish versions attached]
2. visual communication systems in the public spaces (Krakow – Lviv case studies)
[see: Lviv_seminar_02 pdf or
http://www.academia.edu/3103937/W._Bakker_Icograda_and_the_development_of_p
ictogram_standards_1963-1986_Iridescent_vol._2_nr._2_March_2013
W. Bakker, Icograda and the development of pictogram standards : 1963-1986,
Iridescent : Icograda Journal of Design Research, Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2013.]
3. representing the future – space exploration and cybernetics in popular imagination in the
1960s
see: Lviv_seminar_03 pdf S. Webel, Science: the endless frontier,[ in:] Kosmos wzywa!
Sztuka i nauka w długich latach sześćdziesiątych, J. Kordjak-Piotrowskiej, S.Welbel [red.],
Zachęta – Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warszawa 2014, p. 97-106.
4. visual information in the medicine and healthcare – digital images vs analog models
[see : Lviv_seminar_04 pdf; R. Cierniak, Some Words About the History of Computed
Tomography, in: R. Cierniak, X-Ray Computed Tomography in Biomedical Engineering, Springer
Science & Business Media 2011, chapter no 2]
5. games and cartoons – children’s imaginary in Eastern Bloc Countries
[see: Lviv_seminar_05 pdf; S. Watts, Walt Disney: Art and Politics in the American Century, „The
Journal of American History”, 1995, t.82, nr 1, p. 84–110.]
6. imagining the West in Eastern Europe in the Communist Era
[see the following link:
https://books.google.pl/books?id=Z7ta5MVsGMkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Imagining+the
+West+in+Eastern+Europe+and+the+Soviet+Union&hl=pl&sa=X&ei=z38nVYKALMjmaOv
jgeAI&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
for the fragments of
G. Peteri, Introduction: The Oblique Coordinate Systems of Modern Identity, [in:]
Peteri G., Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, [in:] Pitt
Russian East European Series, University of Pittsburgh Press 2010, p. 1-12]
7. images & politics – visual propaganda in Poland after WW II
[see: Lviv_seminar_07 pdf; D. Crowley, Building the World Anew: Design in Stalinist
and post-Stalinist Poland', Journal of Design History, 7:3 (1994), s. 187-201
8. visual identities of nation (Czech, Poland, Ukraine)
[see the following link:
https://books.google.pl/books?id=z0mgPvL2MSwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=No+Caption+
Needed:+Iconic+Photographs,+Public+Culture,+and+Liberal+Democracy&hl=pl&sa=X&ei=
LJUnVYW9Bo7iauCngaAN&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
for fragments of
Performing civic identity, in: R. Hariman i J.L. Lucaites, No Caption Needed: Iconic
Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy, University of Chicago Press 2007, p. 91-128.
9. the use of image: visual technologies, image resources, legal regulations – current trends
[see the following link:
http://issuu.com/virginijuskincinaitis/docs/the_image_factory_consumer_culture_
for the chapter of
P. Frosh, The image factory: consumer culture, photography and the visual content industry, Berg 2003,
p. 193-202.
dr Anna Olszewska
Katedra Kulturoznawstwa i Filozofii, AGH, Kraków
aolsz@agh.edu.pl