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Lecturer(s)
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Lexová Petra, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Jackson Ladislav, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. August Rodin and the Transformation of Sculpture in the Late 19th Century - Rodin's Influence in Bohemia 2. Futurist sculpture and the avant-garde before WWI - Umberto Boccioni 3. Cubist sculpture - Pablo Picasso, Otto Gutfreund 4. Modernist objects - Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Duchamp 5. Constructivism - Vladimir Tatlin, Naum Gabo, Antoine Pevsner 6. Surrealist object - Meret Oppenheim, Ladislav Zívr 7. Abstraction in sculpture - Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
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Learning outcomes
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The course will introduce the history of sculpture in the first half of the 20th century. The focus will be on general issues, specific artistic movements, and key figures in European and North American sculpture.
Students gain an orientation to the topic and an exploration of its aspects.
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Prerequisites
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No special prerequisites.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Test
Active participation in class, report, test.
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Recommended literature
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Benson T. O. Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930, Michigan 2002..
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Foster, Hal et. al. Umění po roce 1900: modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus, Praha 2015..
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Krauss, Rosalind. Passages in Modern Sculpture, Massachusetts 1981..
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Potts, Alex. The sculptural imagination: figurative, modernist, minimalist, New Haven 2000..
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Read, Herbert Edward. Modern sculpture: a concise history, London 2007..
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Švácha, Rostislav et. al. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. V, 1939/1958, Praha 2005..
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