Course: History of Art V

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Course title History of Art V
Course code KDT/FU005
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
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)
  • Janoščík Václav, Mgr. et Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Koleček Michal, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Relocation of artistic centres (Paris - New York). Influence of avant-gardes on American art. Abstract expressionism and Pollock. 2. Art brut and informel in the international and Czech contexts - Dubuffet, Boudník. 3. Neo-avant-garde directions and new sensitivity - Sýkora. 3. Ritualization of art. Viennese actionists. 4. Pop art. American and British scenes, Czechoslovak resonance - Warhol, Rauschenberg. 5. New realism, New figuration, Arte povera - Bacon, Giacometti, Moore, Šimotová. 6. Minimal art, kinetic art - Judd, Kolíbal. 7. Conceptual art, performative tendencies - Kaprow, Klein, Fluxus. 8. Conceptual art, work with text - Kosuth, Kolář. 9. Land Art, sculpture in an extended field - Smithson. 10. Beuys and social sculpture. 11. Feminist art, feminist avant-garde. Important personalities. 12. The beginnings of neoconceptual tendencies - installation, expansion of new media, photographic techniques. 13. Late modernism under the pressure of totalitarian regimes - Abramović, Grigorescu, Kovanda, Koller, Robakowski, Štembera.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
History of Art V / Modern art until 1970 The series of lectures will acquaint students with development of visual art from 1945 to 1970. It focuses on development of visual art in international and national contexts, following key tendencies in abstract art, search for extended possibilities of figurative principles and conceptualization of late modernism creation associated with dematerialization of the artefact and crossing the boundaries of traditional artistic formats. In addition to lectures providing a broader insight into the issues under review, the cycle also includes lectures focused on a more detailed analysis of creative attitudes assumed by selected key representatives of artistic streams being developed in the defined period.
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
Oral exam
Recommended literature
  • BREGANTOVÁ, P., PLATOVSKÁ, M. et al. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění (VI/ 1 a 2) 1958 - 2000. Praha: Academia, 2007.
  • FOSTER, Hal; KRAUSS, Rosalind; BOIS, Yve-Alain; BUCHLOH, Benjamin a David JOSELIT. Umění po roce 1900: modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus.. Praha: Slovart, 2015.
  • MEYER, James Sampson (ed.). Minimalism. Abridged, revised and updated. London: Phaidon, 2010.
  • RUHRBERG, Karl; WALTHER, Ingo F. (eds.). Art of the 20th Century. Köln: Taschen, 2000.
  • SCHOR, Gabriele (ed.). Feminist avant-garde. The SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2016.
  • Švácha, R.; Platovská, M. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění VI, 1958-2000. Praha, 2007.
  • ŠVÁCHA, Rostislav; PETRASOVÁ, Taťána; BENEŠOVSKÁ, Klára et al. Dějiny umění v českých zemích 800-2000. V Řevnicích: Arbor vitae societas, 2017.


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