Cvičení žákovského vidění: didaktický obraz, diapozitiv a film v mediálním kontextu konce 19. století

Abstract

The studyexamines themodes of representationand communication of information through illustrativeteachingaidsin the 19thcentury. It focuses primarily on the didactic wall paintings and the tradition of lectures with slides and notes, how could the experience of these types of collectively observed images influence impressions and expectations of early film audiences. Didacticimagesare here analyzedprimarilyinterms oftheir compositional features (the arrangement of displayed objects within the frame), but in an effort to explain how processuality penetrated into the didactic image of the 19th century also with regard to the aspect of time. As a result, the study calls for a reassessment of the importance of the didactic wall painting in the formation of modern visuality and observational practices of the late 19th century.