Course: Contemporary Central European Visual Art

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Course title Contemporary Central European Visual Art
Course code KDT/FU082
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
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
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Szoboszlai János György, PhD., M.A.
Course content
1.?2. Brief history of Central-Eastern Europe. 3. Totalitarian states before, and ?socialism? after the 2nd WW. 4.?5. Narratives and intrepretation of art from the region before and after 1990. 6. Piotr Piotrowski?s proposal: the need for ?horizontal art history?. 7. Mladen Stilinovic. 8. Neue Slowenische Kunst. 9. Socially and historically engaged art practices: Cs. Nemes, A. Lakner, Societé Realist, T. Kaszas, M. Erhardt, J. Sugar, A. Brener. 10. Institutional critique: Cs. Nemes, Gy. Varnai, K. Nagy. 11. Feminist/gender-related art practices: K. Nagy, E. Benczur, I. Nemeth, A. Szepfalvy, A. Eperjesi, Zs. Simon, A. Fajgerne. 12. Feminist/gender-related art practices: Pussy Riot, Vlasta Delimar, Milica Tomic.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The lecture describes the post-soc condition in the Central-Eastern European region by summarizing its historical, political, economic, societal and cultural contexts. It introduces the new cultural policies implemented in the post-soc countries after 1990, and also presents how the institutions of the contemporary visual art have been evolving since then. The conditions of art making and the position of artists in society are also discussed in details. The basic methodology and terminology of the science of art history related to this topic, and the propositions to re-construct, or re-write the existing scientific paradigms are briefly discussed; and the discourse on these propositions are introduced by a list of publications, projects and exhibitions. The lecture introduces art practice from the post-soc countries, focussing mainly on the socially and politically engaged art; and study cases from feminist, or gender-related art. Resources related to the topic are offered to the students for further research.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
1. Fulfililing partial tasks and assignments throughtout the semestr 2. Active participation in the Studio tutoring
Recommended literature
  • Cat. Ed. BADOVINAC, Z. Body and the East, From the 1960s to the Present. Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, 1998.
  • Cat. Ed. HEGYI, L. Aspects / Positions, Art in Central Europe 1949-1999. Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2000.
  • Cat. Eds. PEJIC, B. and ELLIOT, D. After the Wall, Art and Culture in Post- Communist Europe. Moderna Muset, Stockholm, 1999.
  • Eds. BOELE, O., NOORDENBOS, B. and ROBBE, K. Post-Soviet Nostalgia - Confronting The Empire's Legacies.. Routledge, London, 2020.
  • Eds. HOCK, B. and ALLAS, A. Globalizing East European Art Histories. Routledge, London, 2018.
  • Eds. HOPTMAN, L. and POSPISZYL, T. Primary Documents - A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s.. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002.
  • Eds. JANEVSKI, A., MARCOCI, R., and NOURIL, K. Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018.
  • FOWKES, M. and R. Actually Existing Artworlds of Socialism. Third Text, Volume 32, Issue 4, 2018.
  • FOWKES, M. and R. Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950. Thames & Hudson, London, 2020.
  • 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.


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