Major area and lines of research

Updated on Nov. 19th, 2014 09:36

The Stricto Sensu Graduate Program in Arts and Visual Culture – Master’s and Doctorate – includes the following major area: Art, Culture, and Visuality.

VISUAL CULTURE is understood as a set, acknowledged, and circulating socio-historical field that involves diverse discoursive formations that visually articulate meanings.

The research areas demarcate an approach of art as human social science, investigated under the perspective of studies of the culture. The Major Area, Lines of Research, and Courses encompass concepts regarding visuality, image, art, and education, regarding them as culture and relating them to culture.

The Program presents three Lines of Research:

(a) Image, Culture, and Production of Meaning

Study of artistic images and visuality, their creation processes, reception, circulation, and the production of meaning articulated with culture.

(b) Visual Poetics and Creation Processes

Study of languages, narratives, techniques, materials, and support in the production of visual poetics, and the investigation of the processes of artistic creation and interpretation.

(c) Image Culture and Mediation Processes

Study of esthetics and visual experiences, their meaning and interpretation in formal, non-formal, and informal educational contexts, emphasizing the investigation of cultural practices in contexts of formation, learning, and reception of visuality.