Course: History of Art VII

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Course title History of Art VII
Course code KDT/FU007
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Vartecká Anna, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Imr Mráziková Eva, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Globalization and postcolonial art. 2. Interpretation of sociological and psychological phenomena associated with the issue of eradication of national identity and with a cultural nomadism (Marina Abramović, Shirin Neshat, Vanesa Beecroft, Tracey Moffat). 3. Site-specificity (forms of site-specificity) according to Miwon Kwon - examples in the world and Czech art. 4. New institutionalization; biennial boom and its consequences. 5. DIY aesthetics, street art and its socialization variants (guerrilla gardening, guerrilla knitting, etc.). 6. The phenomenon of sharing. Participatory art and relational aesthetics. 7. After the Wall - art in the posttotalitarian sphere. 8. Czech (and Slovak) art and gender. Selected post-Velvet Revolution projects reflecting the current promotion of gender approaches to exhibition concepts. 9. Shift of artistic strategies (remake, appropriation, remix, re-editing) to the level of user tactics. 10. Social media and Internet, blogs. 11. Post-internet, new object. 12. Archival turn, the symbol of a marketplace and bazaar, nomadism. 13. Installation as a genre, installation policy. Changes in the institutional sphere, exhibition and exposition.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The cycle of lectures is focused on the most recent development of visual art after 2000 and is designed to enable students to adopt the terminology of art history corresponding with development and direction of visual art. These findings are supplemented by analysis of selected tendencies, significant artists and artworks in visual documentation.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
written test
Recommended literature
  • Beltig, H. Konec dějin umění. Praha, MF, 2000.
  • BIRNBAUM, Daniel. Defining contemporary art: 25 years in 200 pivotal artworks. New York, 2011. ISBN 0714862096.
  • Filipová, M.; Rampley M. Možnosti vizuálních studií. Obrazy ? texty ? interpretace. Brno, 2007.
  • FOSTER, H. Umění po roce 1900: modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus.. Praha: Slovart, 2007.
  • GRAHAM, B; COOK, S. Rethinking Curating. Art after new media. MIT Press London, 2010.
  • Heartney E. Art and Today. Phaidon, 2008.
  • HORÁČEK R. Umění bez revolucí?. Muni Press, 2015.
  • Kesner, L. Muzeum umění v digitální době. Argo a NG Praha, 2000.
  • Kesner, L. Vizuální teorie: Současné anglo-americké myšlení o výtvarných dílech. 2005.
  • Kol. autorů. Art at the Turn of Millenium. Köln, 1999.
  • MAIXNEROVÁ, M. #mm net art. Edice PAF Olomouc, 2014.
  • Pejić, B. Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 2009.
  • Woods, T. Beginning Postmodernism. Manchester University Press. Manchester University Press, 1999.


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