DU2321 Other modernisms

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Marta Filipová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Julia Secklehner, M.Phil., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Marta Filipová, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 18:00–19:40 K31, except Wed 15. 11.
Prerequisites
Students have general knowledge of the modern visual arts they can build on.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The blended course looks beyond the established canons of modern art and design which give preference to the avant-garde and individual 'great artists.' The course examines the topic from an international perspective, acknowledging modernism as a global phenomenon. It introduces topics such as women's contributions to modern visual culture, art and design of minority groups, folk modernities, and global entanglements of modernity (with e.g. the USA, Mexico, or India). The course is delivered as a series of lectures on selected topics that challenge the western canon of modernism. The scope of modernism is explored through talks by invited international speakers with expertise on different aspects of modernism. A study visit of an exhibition in Vienna is an indispensable part of the course.
Learning outcomes
The students will: - acquire critical skills in describing, interpreting, contextualizing and evaluating modernism - be aware of a range of directions in modernism - be knowledgable of key texts in the subject area - conduct independent research into a research topic - present clearly articulated, factually supported critical reflections on a topic employing academic methods of research and citation.
Syllabus
  • 1. Joint introduction
  • HARDING, James M. "From Cutting Edge to Rough Edges: On the Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance", in ROUSE, John and HARDING James, M. Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press. 2006. pp. 18–39.
  • 2. Women of Vienna: invited speaker I : Prof Megan Brandow-Faller (online)
  • "The Birth of Expressionist Ceramics. “Crafty Women” and the Interwar Feminization of the Applied Arts", in BRANDOW-FALLER, Megan. The Female Secession : Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy, University Park: Penn State University Press. 2020, pp. 125-155.
  • 3. Latin American photography: invited speaker II: Dr Julieta Pestarino
  • Lugo, Laura Karp. “Alone Together: Exile Sociability and Artistic Networks in Buenos Aires at the Beginning of the 20th Century.” In Arrival Cities: Migrating Artists and New Metropolitan Topographies in the 20th Century, edited by Laura Karp Lugo, Burcu Dogramaci, Mareike Hetschold, Rachel Lee, and Helene Roth, 33–54. Leuven University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv16qk3nf.4.
  • 4. Primitivism and the modern (MF)
  • MCKAY, Carol, "Modernist Primitivism? The case of Kandinsky," Oxford Art Journal 16, no. 2 (1993): 21-36.
  • FILIPOVÁ, Marta, “National treasure or a redundant relic? The roles of the vernacular in Czech art” RIHA Journal (Journal of the Research Institutes of the History of Art) 0066 (26 February 2013) [http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2013/2013-jan-mar/filipova-national-treasure-or-a-redundant-relic]
  • 5. Minority Modernisms (JS)
  • SPINNER, Samuel, J. "Introduction", in SPINNER, Samuel, J. Jewish Primitivism. Standford: Standford University Press, 2021. pp. 1-20.
  • 6. Popular Illustration and magazine cultures (JS)
  • BROOKER, Peter, "General Introduction: Modernity, Modernisms, Magazines", in BROOKER, Peter, Sascha BRU, Andrew THACKER a Christian WEIKOP. The Oxford critical and cultural history of modernist magazines. Volume III, Europe 1880-1940. Part II / edited by Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker, and Christian Weikop. 2013. pp 1-21. Central Library 070-OXFO1-2
  • 7. Post/Decolonial aspects of Modernist Architecture: Invited Speaker III: Dr Veronika Rollová
  • Walter Mignolo, 'Epistemic Disobedience: Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom' Theory, Culture & Society, 26(7-8), 2009, 159-181. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276409349275
  • 8. Modernism at the fair (MF)
  • 9. Study visit to Vienna
  • 10. Norwegian wood: Scandinavian design and beyond: Prof. Kjetil Fallan
  • 11. Reading week
  • 12. Student presentations
Literature
    recommended literature
  • SPINNER, Samuel J. Jewish primitivism. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2021, xiii, 251. ISBN 9781503628274. info
  • The Oxford critical and cultural history of modernist magazines. Edited by Peter Brooker - Sascha Bru - Andrew Thacker - Christian Weikop. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, xx, strany. ISBN 9780199681310. info
  • RAMPLEY, Matthew. Art History and Visual Studies in Europe. Transnational Discourses and National Frameworks. In Matthew Rampley. Art History and Visual Studies in Europe. Transnational Discourses and National Frameworks. Leiden: Brill, 2012, p. 1-16,119-134,231-249, 421-438. ISBN 978-90-04-21877-2. info
  • The design history reader. Edited by Grace Lees-Maffei - Rebecca Houze. English edition first publis. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010, xii, 546. ISBN 9781847883889. info
  • FOSTER, Hal. Art since 1900 : modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism. 1st pub. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004, 704 s. ISBN 0500238189. info
Assessment methods
Students will present in class on an agreed topic related to the course (10 minutes) and they will prepare a poster on the topic.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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