DU1334a Subject Seminar: Architecture (Form and Function)

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 10:50–12:25 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The goal of the course is to deal with some fundamental studie of art historians and historians of architecture (Wittkower,Panofsky, Baxandalle, Onians ad.) to demonstrate various methods of interpretation of historical architecture.
Syllabus
  • The course will cover various topics and texts inculding: So.called Czech Renaissance and problematics of "nationalism" in art history Michale Baxandalle, Patterns of Intentions Erwin Panofsky, Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism Excursion Methods of interpretation of Renaiisance Architecture - Richard A. Goldthwaithe, The Building of Renaissance Florence. An Economic and Social History, Baltimore 1980. - Rudolf Wittkower, Architectural principles in the Age of Humanism, London 1949 - John Onians, Bearers of Meaning. The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, Princeton 1988 - Charles Burroughs, The Italian Renaissance Palace facade. Structures of Authority, Surface of Sense, Cambridge 2002 - David Thomson, Renaissance Architecture. Critics – Patrons – Luxury, Manchester– New York 1993. - Mario Carpo, Architecture in the Age of Printing. Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory, Cambridge (MA) – London 2001. Problem of historism in architecture - so-called Nachgotik a functional typology of church architecture Michale Schmidt, Reverentia et magnificentia. Historizität in der Architektur Süddeutschlands, Österreichs un d Böhmens vom 14. bis 17. Jahrhunderts, Regensburg 1999 Viktor Kotrba etc. Othe specific approaches: iconology; functionalist art history, ego-art history etc.
Literature
  • KROUPA, Jiří. Umělci, objednavatelé a styl. Studie z dějin umění. (The Artists, the Patrons and the Style. Studies on history of art.). První. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2006, 398 pp. Dějiny a teorie umění. ISBN 80-7364-036-8. info
  • BURKE, Peter. Eyewitnessing : the uses of images as historical evidence. 1st pub. London: Reaktion, 2001, 223 s. ISBN 1861890923. info
  • BAXANDALL, Michael. Patterns of intention : on the historical explanation of pictures. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985, xii, 147. ISBN 0300037635. info
  • PANOFSKY, Erwin. Význam ve výtvarném umění. Edited by Lubomír Konečný. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1981, 372 s. info
  • PANOFSKY, Erwin. Gothic architecture and scholasticism. New York: Meridian Books, 1957, xvi, 108. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, papers, discussion
Assessment methods
Oral exam (colloqium).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2014, recent)
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