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Lecturer(s)
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Sýkorová Lenka, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Machová Adéla, MgA. Ph.D.
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Vartecká Anna, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Imr Mráziková Eva, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Svejkovský Zdeněk, MgA. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Postwar fine-art photography. Images, power, and politics. Establishment of photo agencies. The myth of photographic truth. 2. Czech postwar photography in the context of the ideology of socialist realism. Union of Czechoslovak Visual Artists. Existentialism. Czech artists with special links to the tradition of surrealism. 3. Growing power of media. Development of TV broadcasting. Theories of Marshal McLuhan and other theoreticians. 4. Brussels. EXPO 58. Czechoslovak participation. Laterna Magika. 5. Photography and its role in the recording medium I. Intermedia: happening, Actionism and Fluxus - the 1960's. 6. Conceptual photography. Euro-American dominant scene. Joseph Kosuth, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, the Bechers, etc. 7. Conceptual photography. Czech and Slovak scene. 8. Between art and the media industry from the 1960s to the 1980s. Emergence of video art. First and second waves of video art. 9-10. Presentation and discussion on selected video art works. 11. Film as new art: the postwar development of cinema - Italian neorealism, a new wave in France and in Czechoslovakia, etc. Presentation and discussion on selected films. 12. Photography and its role in the recording medium II. Art in space and time in the 1970s and 1980s. Process art - body art, performance, land art, etc. Richard Long, Chris Burden, Denis Oppenheim, Bruce Nauman etc. 13. Intermedia creation. Artist and medium: photography, film, video, sound art, performance, new media, installations, etc. New role of photography in intermedia art.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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A cycle of lectures on development of world and Czech photography, including their theoretical reflection in the period between 1950s and 1980s. Further to Theory and history of photography III and IV, the course studies the link between photography and contemporary visual art. It deals with metamorphoses the photography went through with the onset of conceptual artistic tendencies, performance, land-art, etc., which often reduced the role of photography to a recording medium. It acquaints the students with using new technologies, digital records, computer manipulation of image, and with the onset of videoart, which have brought photography to a dominant position in development of visual art over the last decade.
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.
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Prerequisites
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Successful completion of the previous study
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Attendance
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Recommended literature
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BIRGUS, Vladimír; MLČOCH, Jan. Česká fotografie 20. století. KANT, Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum, Praha, 2009.
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Císař, K. (ed.). Co je to fotografie?. Hermann & synové, 2004.
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DEMPSEY, Amy. Umělecké styly, školy a hnutí: Encyklopedický průvodce moderním uměním. Slovart, Praha, 2. vydání, 2002. ISBN 80-7209-402-5.
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Dvořák, T. Kapitoly z dějin a teorie médií. Praha, 2010.
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FOSTER, Hal (ed.). Umění po roce 1900: modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus. Slovart, Praha, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7209-952-8.
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GRYGAR, Štepán. Konceptuální umění a fotografie. AMU, Praha, 2004.
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POSPĚCH, Tomáš. Česká fotografie 1938-2000 v recenzích, textech, dokumentech. Dost, Hranice, 2010.
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POSPĚCH, Tomáš. Myslet fotografii. Česká fotografie 1938-2000. PositiF a Dost, Praha, 2014.
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RUHRBERG, et.al. Umění 20. století: malířství, skulptury a objekty, nová média, fotografie. Praha: Slovart, 2004. ISBN 80-7209-521-8.
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RUSH, M. New Media in Art. Londýn, Thames & Hudson, 2005.
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