1. Visual Culture in wider perspective Introduction, the issue of the study of visual culture, polarity of history of art - visual culture, the canon, "visual turn", data visualization and knowledge. 2. Changes of modernity in the "long" 20 century Emergence of modern art, avant-garde, utopia, manifests, programmes, conflict of"old" and "new" art. Art Nouveau, Expressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, abstract art, Art Deco, Bauhaus, Exhibition of Modern Art in Prague, E. Munch and Czech art, Bohemia and France: especially A. Rodin and A.Bourdelle in Prague; associations and artists: SVU Manes, Osma, Spolek výtvarných umělců, Tvrdošíjní, Sursum. G. Lindauer - P. Gauguin. F. Kupka, M. Duchamp, J. Pollock, A. Warhol., D. Hirst 3. Visual culture and gender (gender and queer studies, LBGTI). Women - artists in the 20 century. Why did so few break through? What were institutional preconditions for them? Women's art aclubs - Circle of Fine artists and others. Reassessing the role of women - artists in art history. Development of women's emancipation movement in the late 19 and early 20 centuries, the process of democratization of society. Chronology of feminism since the 60s of the 20 century in the "western" world. 4. The variable status of an artist and an artwork. Romantic concept of an author (genius), author as a producer, "death" of the author, models of authorship in the time of digital reproducibility.
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The course focuses on the study of visual culture of the "long" 20 century, its characteristic features and trends in visual art, further on the updated interpretation of terms and concepts. It expands interpretation of fine art trying to depict changing modernity, at the same time leaving behind a narrow concept of traditional history of art. Its aim is to present the key topics and methodological approaches associated with the current state of art in the interdisciplinary overlap. An artwork is understood as a complex of various relationships and links ( intercultural, social, political, etc.).
Students will acquire deeper knowledge of visual culture of the 20 century, they will become familiar with important academic texts, concepts and theories that they will try to use in their independent analyses of a visual piece of art.
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