Course: European and Czech Art of the 19th and 20th Century

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Course title European and Czech Art of the 19th and 20th Century
Course code UUK/7ECUD
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory, Compulsory-optional
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)
  • Jackson Ladislav, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction, the problems of modernism and avantgarde 2. From classicism to romanticism 3. Realism 4. Historism of the 19th century 5. Edouard Manet, impresionism and postimpresionism 6. Art noveau 7. Fauvism and expresionism 8.-9. Futurism, cubism and abstraction 10. The avant-garde of the 1920s. 11. From Dada to surrealism 12.-13. Art after World War II.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
Learning outcomes
The course is devoted to the European art from the beginning of the 19th century till 1950. It follows the key artistic trends, represented in the concrete artists, with the accent on the understanding of its sense and content. Besides the foreign artists, the interest will be focused also on the Czech artists.
The students gain the basic orientation in the European and Czech art of the 19th and 20th century.
Prerequisites
No special prerequisites.

Assessment methods and criteria
Test

Active participation in classes.
Recommended literature
  • Dějiny českého výtvarného umění (III/1-2) 1780/1890, Praha: Academia, 2001..
  • Dějiny českého výtvarného umění (IV/1-2) 1890/1938, Praha: Academia, 1998..
  • Dějiny českého výtvarného umění (V) 1939/1958, Praha: Academia, 2005..
  • Dějiny českého výtvarného umění (VI/1-2) 1958/2000, Praha: Academia, 2007..
  • ANDĚL, Jaroslav. Myšlení o fotografii. I, Průvodce modernitou v antologii textů. Praha: Nakladatelství Akademie múzických umění, 2012..
  • EISENMAN, Stephen F. Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History. Thames & Hudson, 2011..
  • FOSTER, Hal, KRAUSSOVÁ, Rosalind E., BOIS, Yve-Alain, BUCHLOH, Benjamin, JOSELIT, David. Umění po roce 1900: modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus. Praha: Slovart, 2015..
  • FRAMPTON, Kenneth. Moderní architektura. Kritické dějiny. Praha: Academia, 2004..
  • HARRISON, Charles - WOOD, Paul J. (eds.). Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Blackwell Publishing, 2002..
  • HUYGHE, René (ed.). Umění nové doby. Praha: Odeon, 1974..
  • LAMAČ, Miroslav. Myšlenky moderních malířů. Praha: NČVU, 1968..


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