Course: History of Material Culture II

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Course title History of Material Culture II
Course code KDT/FU064
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
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)
  • Polanecký Jaroslav, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Stolárová Lenka, Mgr.
Course content
1. Islam - development, basic periodization, classical style and architecture, three late empires, metamorphoses in Islamic art. 2. Romanesque period. Jewelry, metal work, ceramics, ivory work, book painting, illumination. 3. Early Gothic art. Residential interior, furniture - typology, decoration techniques. Monastery and craft workshops. 4. Medieval society and guilds. Glassmaking in Western and Central Europe, technologies, shapes, decorative techniques. Architecture. 5. Renaissance. Interior transformation, furniture, Venetian glassmaking. Architecture, murals, ceramics, goldsmithing. 6. Mannerism with regard to the Czech lands - use of carving in glass refinement again, the influence of Italian majolica. 7. 17th century applied art - the transition from Mannerism to Baroque. Furniture making, Czech glassmaking, faience. 8. Triumph of the Baroque 1700-1740. Changes in the interior and furniture making, textiles, Bohemian cut glass - its roots. 9. From Baroque to Rococo. The peak of glassmaking, development of new technologies in ceramics - European porcelain; soft earthenware. 10. Classicism - artistic expression in applied art. Ornamentation, a concept of colour - development from Classicism to Empire. 11. Empire - the influence of the empire and Napoleonic campaigns - Empire interior and its ornamentation.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course focuses on the genesis of material culture, especially of handicraft and applied art. The course is based on an art-historical domain embedded in a cultural-historical framework. Its aim is to provide an overview of the material culture development in the context of European cultural history with emphasis on Central European space and development of art-historical styles, to illuminate the relationship between the categories of art and craft, taking into account period art theories, the function of visual art, and symbologies. Special emphasis is put on an interdisciplinary approach. Students obtain a basic grasp of art history, as well as history. Emphasis is then placed on getting knowledge of basic concepts and professional terminology, and on developmental directions of art handicraft, applied and visual arts, and art techniques, and their application in student's own creative practice.
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
Attendance
Recommended literature
  • HEJDOVÁ, Dagmar a kol. Od Velké Moravy po dobu gotickou. Dějiny uměleckého řemesla a užitého umění v Českých zemích. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, Praha, 1999.
  • JANSON, Horst Woldemar; DAVIES, Penelope J. E.; FOX HOFRICHTER, Frima; JACOBS, Joseph F.; SIMON, David L.; ROBERTS, Ann S. Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition Reissued Edition (8th Edition).. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2011.
  • KYBALOVÁ, Ludmila. Barok a rokoko. Dějiny odívání. Praha, 1997.
  • Mergl, Jan. České sklo ze soukromých sbírek. Skyway, 2019.
  • Morant De, Henry. Dějiny užitého umění. Od nejstarších dob po současnost. Odeon, Praha, 1983.
  • Petráň, Josef. Dějiny hmotné kultury I., II. Karolinu, Praha, 2009.
  • Ravik, Slavomír. Velká kniha o starožitnostech. Československý spisovatel, Praha, 2010.
  • RILEYOVÁ, Noël. Dějiny užitého umění. Slovart, Praha, 2003.
  • Šubrt, Michal. Míšeňský porcelán 1710-2000. Gallery, 2009.


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