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Lecturer(s)
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Kreuzzieger Milan, PhDr. RNDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Topics of the lectures: 1. Introduction - presenting the programme of the course and the requirements for the credit. 2. European art at the turn of the 19th and 20th century I. (Avant-gardes, utopias, manifests, programmes, the conflict of the "old" and "new" art. ) 3. European art at the turn of the 19th and 20th century II. (Expressionism, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, abstract art.) 4. Exhibition of modern art at the beginning of the 20th century in Prague. (Groups and artists: SVU Mánes, Osma, Skupina výtvarných umělců, Sursum, and others.) 5. European modern art of the 1st half of the 20th century. (Dada and surrealism, Art Deco, the New Objectivity, Bauhaus, and others) 6. Art and totalitarian regimes (Nazism, Stalinism). (Art in Germany and Italy in the Fascist time. Art of social realism - Stalinist period.) 7. Modern art in the USA. (Spreading of modern art into the USA during and after WWII.) 8. Post-modern art in the West. Basic characteristics of post-modern art and its chronological ordering. 9. Post-modern art in Czechoslovakia (or Czech Republic) (Accepting the post-modern art in the specific time of 1980s and 1990s). 10. Art in the age of its technical reproductibility. Development of graphical and reproduction techniques in the 19th and 20th century, influence on reception of a work of art. Benjamin's interpretation of technical reproductibility of a work of art. 11. Changeable status of an artist and a piece of art. 12. - 13. Excursion - Müller's villa, National theatre, cubist architecture in Prague - Podolí. (a four-hour trip). 14. Last meeting, summing up of the discussed topics, discussion.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
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The target of the course is to give the students an introductory view and orientation in the problems and topics connected with modern and postmodern art and about its most important representatives - artists, female artists and art groups. This cycle of lectures should discuss the traditional understanding of history of art (based on an analysis of style and the chronological ordering of development) and the newer approaches to the interpretation of art. The study of art and visual culture of the 19th and 20th century should be connected to the specific cultural, historical, political and cultural context, in which it finds its sense. Except for the knowledge of formal-chronological structure it is necessary to learn the present-day theories, concepts and topics which allow us to interpret in various ways, to classify and file the artefacts differently and which lead to a new explanation of concepts and a new view on the role of art, position of the artist and his status. Institution activities and functions should be paid attention to (e.g. fine art academies, galleries, museums, art groups, etc.) which formed the value criteria and helped to create a specific discourse. Part of the course is a visit to the Muller's villa in Prague, National Theatre in Prague and cubist architecture in Prague - Podolí where the students will get the main overview of the European art of the 19th and 20th century.
The students will learn the key topics, artists and periods of modern art of the 19th, 20th and 21st century, they will learn to understand and analyze an expert text verbally and in written form. We will focus on gaining a few basic competencies: - development of individual and critical thinking oriented to a wider complex of visual culture, which arises and gains meaning in specifically situated personal, social, political and historical coherence. - Managing of a scope of topics, theories, approaches and "sum" of knowledge, learning of study texts and their interpretation; mastering of the terminology and theoretical tools.
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Prerequisites
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None
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Assessment methods and criteria
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The students should learn the key topics, artists and periods of art of the 19th, 20th and 21st century, they should learn to understand and analyze an expert text in description and in written form and they should learn to interpret it and put it into context.
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