Course: European Art Under the Influence of Totalitarian Ideologies

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Course title European Art Under the Influence of Totalitarian Ideologies
Course code KDT/864
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Szoboszlai János György, PhD., M.A.
Course content
These informations are in the annotation of the course.

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
The course summarizes the historical and theoretical references of the totalitarian ideologies and states with special attention on the post-WWII. Stalinism in the Central Eastern European region. Focus is on cultural policies, and supported, tolerated and prohibited art practices. 1. The meanings and experiences of totalitarianism (More, T., Campanella, T., Huxley, A. Orwell, G., Golding, W.). 2. Theories of totalitarianism (Arendt, H., Popper, K., Brzezinski Z.K., Gleason, A., Payne P. G., Žižek, S.). 3. The brief summary of the history of Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, Pol-Potism. 4. Public policy and cultural policy of totalitarian states. 5. Analysis and interpretation of the Russian Constructivism and its prohibition in USSR. 6. Analysis and interpretation of social realism (visual arts, architecture, urbanism, film, literature). 7. Analysis and interpretation of art of Russian neoconformist art. 8. Analysis and interpretation of art of Hungarian neo-avantgarde. 9. Analysis and interpretation of art of Hungarian concept art and fluxus. 10. Analysis and interpretation of art of Croatian Group of Six. 11. Analysis and interpretation of art of Slovenian Laibach. 12. Analysis and interpretation of art of Slovenian IRWIN. 13. Current trends in socially engaged art reflecting on totalitarianism and the crisis of democracy.
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
Dialogue
Recommended literature
  • Aspects / Positions. Art in Central Eastern Europe 1949-1999. Aspects / Positions. Art in Central Eastern Europe 1949-1999. Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2000.
  • Beke, L. Conceptualist tendencies in Eastern European Art. In. Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s. Queens Museum of Art, New York, 1999.
  • Beke, L. Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s. Queens Museum of Art, New York, 1999.
  • Body and the East. From the 1960s to the Present. Body and the East. From the 1960s to the Present. Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, 1998.
  • Komer, E. The Absurd as Concept. Phenomena of Hungarian Conceptualism. New Art From Eastern Europe, Art and Design, Identity and Conflict, 1994.
  • Neue Slowenische Kunst. Neue Slowenische Kunst. AMOK Books, Los Angeles, 1991.
  • Piotrowski, P. Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe. Reaction books, London, 2012.
  • Piotrowski, P. In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989. London, Reaktion Books, 2009.
  • Primary Documents. A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s. Primary Documents. A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s. MOMA, NY, 2002.
  • Žižek, S. The Enlightenment of Laibach. New Art From Eastern Europe, Art and Design, Identity and Conflict, 1994.


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