JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM
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Course: Selected chapters from modern and contemporary art I

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Course title Selected chapters from modern and contemporary art I
Course code KDT/849
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Frequency of the course Each academic year
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Szoboszlai János György, PhD., M.A.
  • Koleček Michal, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Defining the term concept of art - a comparison of art of W.A. Mozart and J. Cage. 2. The historical definitions and contexts of concepts of art. 3. Description of the components of the institutional frame of art. 4. The institutional frame of art as system of relations and interactions. 5. Defining the term dematerialisation. 6. Defining the term rematerialisation. 7. The theories of dematerialisation and rematerialisation. 8. Analysis and interpretation of art of K. Malevich from the aspect of dematerialisation. 9. Analysis and interpretation of art of M. Duchamp from the aspect of dematerialisation. 10. Analysis and interpretation of art of J. Kosuth from the aspect of dematerialisation. 11. Analysis and interpretation of art of Art and Language from the aspect of dematerialisation. 12. Analysis and interpretation of art of A. Warhol from the aspect of dematerialisation. 13. Analysis and interpretation of art of Gilbert and George from the aspect of dematerialisation.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The topic is the process of dematerialisation and rematerialisation in visual art from the beginning of the 20th Century until contemporary art. The course investigates how the meaning has been displaced from the original physical object and visual phenomenon onto the original idea of artworks.
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
Analysis of the selected problem of art (prezentation, essay - 10 pages)
Recommended literature
  • Allen, G. Intertextuality ? A New Critical Idiom. Routledge, London, 2000.
  • Buchloch, B. H. D. Broodthares ? Writings, Interviews, Photographs. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1988.
  • Danto, A. C. Beyond the Brillo Box. The Noonday Press, New York, 1992.
  • Danto, A. C. The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art. Columbia University Press, New York, 1986.
  • Danto, A. C. The Transfiguration of the Commonplace. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1981.
  • De Duve, T. The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1993.
  • Godfrey, T. Conceptual Art. Phaidon, London, 1998.
  • Kosuth, J. Art after Philosophy (I-II.). Studio International, 1978.
  • Krauss, R. E. The Optical Unconscious. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1994.
  • Lippard, L.; Chandler J. The Dematerialization of Art.. Art International, 1968.
  • Ruhrberg; Schneckenburger; Frickeová; Honnef. Umění 20. století. Malířství. Skulptury a objekty. Nová média. Fotografie. Taschen, 2004.
  • Searle, J. R. Mysl, mozek a věda; Mladá fronta. Praha, 1994. ISBN 80-204-0509-7.


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JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM, date of update: 01.12.2025 23:50. Data created for academic year 2025/2026