DU1238a Visual Art 1900-1940

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 14:00–15:40 D509 - D52
Prerequisites
The condition is to complete the course Epochs IV.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course objective is orientation in art in Europe in the period 1900-1940: personalities, localities, context.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to understand the value of artistic innovations realized in the period 1900-1940, he will be able to interpret them and to include them into a wider cultural context.
Syllabus
  • 1. What is modern art. Artistic "innovations". 2.New forms. Tendencies 1900-1918: Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, begginings of Abstract art.4. Theoretical concepts of that time.5. Modern art and avantgarde art. 6.After 1916/18: Dadaism and Surrealism, Constructivism and new possibilities of science and technologie. 7. Art and politics.
Literature
  • HENDERSON, Linda Dalrymple. The fourth dimension and non-Euclidean geometry in modern art. Rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2013, xxvii, 729. ISBN 9780262582445. info
  • DICKERMAN, Leah. Inventing abstraction 1910-1925 : how a radical idea changed modern art. Edited by Matthew Affron. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012, 376 s. ISBN 9780870708282. info
  • Imagining the unimaginableWorld War, modern art, & the politics of public culture in Russia, 1914-1917. Edited by Aaron J. Cohen. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008, xii, 232 p. ISBN 0803215479. info
  • MANSBACH, Steven A. Modern art in Eastern Europe : from the Baltic to the Balkans, ca. 1890-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, xvi, 384 s. ISBN 0-521-45085-3. info
  • BRETTELL, Richard R. Modern art, 1851-1929 : capitalism and representation. 1st publ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, ix, 258. ISBN 019284220X. info
  • ASHTON, Dore. A fable of modern art. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980. info
  • GORDON, Donald E. Modern art exhibitions 1900-1916 : selected catalogue documentation. Translated by Lucius Grisebach - Léopold Jaumonet - Sara Lehrman. München: Prestel-Verlag, 1974, 906 s. ISBN 3791300660. info
  • GORDON, Donald E. Modern art exhibitions 1900-1916 : selected catalogue documentation. Translated by Lucius Grisebach - Léopold Jaumonet - Sara Lehrman. München: Prestel-Verlag, 1974, 360 s. ISBN 3791300660. info
  • ARNASON, H. Harvard. A history of modern art : painting, sculpture, architecture. First published. London: Thames and Hudson, 1969, 663 stran. info
Teaching methods
lectures.
Assessment methods
oral examination
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
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