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Forma poética y función práctica del trazo manuscrito (edX)

Forma poética y función práctica del trazo manuscrito (edX)

De la ley medieval a la creación caligráfica contemporánea. La escritura a mano derivada de funciones administrativas, económicas o legales en seis contextos históricos genera a su vez formas expresivas que definen los sistemas de escritura. En todos los ejemplos, la aplicación del trazo no podrá entenderse sin su dimensión morfológica, poética o estética.

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El estudio de la manuscritura en cada situación histórica contemplada en el curso se aborda como una integración de formas y funciones. La expresividad del trazo, la representación cultural de la escritura a mano desde época medieval o su vínculo con la música son aspectos que se unen al análisis de los textos manuscritos. Se busca adquirir competencias en la transcripción de ejemplos medievales y modernos a partir del estudio de las características morfológicas de los ciclos escriturarios asociados a la producción libraria y documental en los reinos hispánicos. En este curso los dos ejes centrales en los que se basa la propuesta docente son la función y la forma de lo escrito. Paralelamente, la reproducción caligráfica de grafemas y sus correspondientes alógrafos posibilita un internamiento profundo en el puro acto de escritura que mejora el rendimiento final, no exento de una dimensión creativa, artística y gestualmente inspiradora.

What you'll learn

  • Vincular las competencias paleográficas históricas a la creatividad caligráfica.
  • Comprensión del contexto histórico de la producción de textos manuscritos.
  • Identificación de los tipos de letra empleados en cada época.
  • Análisis y comprensión de la materialidad constitutiva de manuscritos.
  • Aplicación de tecnologías de observación y captura detallada.
  • Integración de capacidades paleográficas y caligráficas.
  • Resolución de casos de transcripción de manuscritos.
  • Estudio de la comunicación manuscrita y su representación pictórica, literaria y expresiva.

Syllabus

SEMANA 1: La exploración del trazo. La ciencia escrita. Paleografía y caligrafía del conocimiento empírico. Ciencias Naturales y escritura. Diarios de viajes y exploraciones. Cartas y relaciones del mundo descubierto.
SEMANA 2: Política escrita: Escribiendo la ley. Constituciones, leyes y ordenamientos jurídicos. Paleografía y Caligrafía de lo legal. Fueros, observancias, cartas puebla y su evolución manuscrita y morfológica desde época medieval.
SEMANA 3: Cultura escrita efímera: palimpsestos, fragmentos y marginalia en la materialidad documental y libraria. Espacios secundarios de escritura y testimonios manuscritos semiocultos. Materialidad constitutiva de volúmenes, códices y registros. Codicología y fragmentología. La recuperación de fragmentos en los archivos. Maculaturas. Estudios de caso. Aplicaciones tecnológicas y fotografía multiespectral.
SEMANA 4: Escribiendo música: Paleografía y Caligrafía de lo musical en la Península Ibérica. Notaciones musicales manuscritas en códices medievales y modernos. Maculaturas e interpretación. Recuperación de testimonios y piezas inéditas. Investigación conjunta: paleografía + musicología.
SEMANA 5: Caligrafía y creación literaria. Paleografía y cultura escrita de las obras literarias desde la Edad Media. Creando poesía visual con el trazo: caligrafía contemporánea de obras en verso y en prosa.
SEMANA 6: Caligrafía y pintura: desentrañando los significados manuscritos de las obras pictóricas. Inscripciones, cartelas, filacterias, mensajes manuscritos en la pintura medieval y moderna. Lo manuscrito como recurso visual y escenográfico.

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