DU2363 Collecting, modernism & identity

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ing. Marcela Rusinko, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Ing. Marcela Rusinko, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:40 K33
Prerequisites
Basic orientation in the history and history of art, both local and worldwide.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The lecture will introduce the issues of private collecting, art patronage, art market and institutional background, as well as provenance research in link with the mobility of visual culture of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The course outlines the basic concepts, historical development and significance of the phenomenon. The key collections created in our territory and abroad from the second half of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century are presented in an overview, with an emphasis on locally important personalities of Brno collecting. The focus of the course is devoted to the phenomenon of art collection as an attribute of the middle class lifestyle, developing in close connection with the discourses of modernism and the contemporary historical and social contexts.

Emphasis will be placed on acquaintance with the conceptual apparatus and the development of understanding the phenomenon in the context of history and social history. Students are taught the importance of provenance research in contemporary art-historical practice with illustrative examples of collection mobility of specific works of art. We will present the profiles of individual domestic and foreign collectors, the focus and development of their collections, psychological aspects and motivation of their collecting. In the background, we also observe contemporary stereotypes of socially determined behavior and restrictions that their bearers have had to face throughout history. We will not forget the current issue of women's collecting in the current research.

The related issues of the relationship between private and institutional collecting are also open; standards and conditions of functioning in the domestic and foreign environment are compared. Contextually, the mutual relations between private and public collection space, the genesis and growth of art museums and related aspects of the art market are also monitored.
Learning outcomes
Students are able to: - classify the basic historical artistic collections with origin in our territory - they know their orientation and fate, possible links to institutional collections - apply knowledge gained in basic overview courses in the context of archival research - actively work with relevant literature, home and foreign source and collection databases - visually orientate themselves in the most well-known art-historical materials from our environment and are able to classify it from the point of proveniential history - define the essence of artistic collectibility and patronage and develop the understanding of the notion in history and present
Syllabus
  • - concepts of art collecting and patronage, terminology and developments
    - philosophical, psychological and literary reflections on collecting phenomenon
    - dominant aspects of art collecting, provenance research, its potential and limits
    - modernism and identity, collecting as middle class social phenomenon of Euro-Atlantic society
    - important female collectors on the scene of the 20th century
    - art collecting of the 19th and early 20th century in Prague and Brno
    - the most prominent personalities of interwar collecting in Prague
    - the most prominent personalities of interwar collecting in Brno
    - movements of artistic assets during WWII and after WWII
    - the art market as a transformation platform; forms of capital
    - specifics of collecting after WWII, 1950s - 1960s Czechoslovakia
    - standardization period collecting in Czechoslovakia vs. Western collector's identities / Cold War collectors
    - key figures of 20th Century European and Transatlantic collecting and related museum collections
    - private versus public collections, institutional corporate collections
Literature
    required literature
  • Mít a být : sběratelství jako kumulace, recyklace a obsese. Edited by Martina Pachmanová, Translated by Lucie Vidmar - Josef Fulka. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová. 223 s. ISBN 9788086863252. 2008. info
  • SLAVÍČEK, Lubomír. "Sobě, umění, přátelům" : kapitoly z dějin sběratelství v Čechách a na Moravě 1650-1939. Vyd. 1. Brno: Barrister & Principal. 376 s. ISBN 9788087029220. 2007. info
  • HASKELL, Francis. Past and present in art and taste : selected essays. New Haven: Yale University Press. xv, 255. ISBN 0300036078. 1987. info
    recommended literature
  • WALDES, Jindřich. Kupka - Waldes : malíř a jeho sběratel : dílo Františka Kupky ve sbírce Jindřicha Waldesa : [Malá galerie Rudolfinum, Praha 7.12.1999-9.1.2000]. Edited by František Kupka. 1. vyd. Praha: Antikvariát Meissner, 1999. 445 s. ISBN 802384616
  • STOURTON, James, Great Collector of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945, Scala Publishers Ltd, London, 2007.
  • HÁNOVÁ, Markéta. Japonské dřevořezy a jejich sběratelé v českých zemích. Praha: Národní galerie. 243 stran. ISBN 9788070357248. 2019. info
  • RUSINKO, Marcela and Vít VLNAS. Sobě ke cti, umění ke slávě. Čtyři století uměleckého sběratelství v českých zemích (For One's Honour, For Art's Glory. Four centuries of art collecting in Czech lands). Brno: Books & Pipes. 369 pp. ISBN 978-80-7485-197-1. 2019. info
  • RUSINKO, Marcela. Snad nesbíráte obrazy? Cesty soukromého sběratelství moderního umění v českých zemích v letech 1948-1965 (You Aren’t Collecting Paintings, Are You? Paths of Private Modern Art Collecting in the Czech Lands between 1948 and 1965). Brno: Books&Pipes Publishing. 352 pp. ISBN 978-80-7485-157-5. 2018. URL info
  • SVOBODOVÁ, Kateřina. Donatoren, Mäzene, Sammler. V Brně: Moravská galerie. 135 s. ISBN 9788070272220. 2010. info
  • MUENSTERBERGER, Werner. Collecting : an unruly passion : psychological perspectives. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. xi, 295. ISBN 0691033617. 1994. info
    not specified
  • RUSINKO, Marcela. Josef Sudek sbírající. Neklidné zaujaté hledačství a diluviální vrstvy paměti (Josef Sudek Art Collector. Restless Seeking and Diluvial Memory Layers). Kontexty : Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury. vol. 2018, No 1, p. 50-58. ISSN 1803-6988. 2018. info
  • SLAVÍČEK, Lubomír. Cesta do hlubin sběratelovy duše. Sbírka moderního umění ostravského sběratele Vladimíra Kouřila ve světle jeho dopisů (A Journey into the Depths of a Collector’s Soul. The Collection of Modern Art of the Collector Vladimír Kouřil from Ostrava in the Light of His Letters). Opuscula historiae artium. Praha: Masarykova univerzita, roč. 62, č. 1, p. 44-67. ISSN 1211-7390. 2013. Digitální knihovna FF info
  • SLAVÍČEK, Lubomír. Chuť kupovat živé umění. Z korespondence brněnského sběratele moderního umění Františka Dvořáčka (A liking for purchasing living art. From the correspondence of František Dvořáček, a collector of modern art from Brno). Opuscula historiae artium. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, roč. 61, č. 1, p. 58–75. ISSN 1211-7390. 2012. info
  • SLAVÍČEK, Lubomír. Zdroj radosti a přemýšlení - Antonín Procházka & jeho sběratelé v Brně a jinde (A Source of Joy and Thought. Antonín Procházka & his collectors ind Brno and elsewhere). In Antonín Procházka 1882-1945. 1st ed. Brno-Praha: Muzeum města Brna - Moravská galerie v Brně - Obecní dům, Praha. p. 182-199. publikace k výstavě. ISBN 80-86549-01-1. 2002. info
  • ŠIMON, Patrik. Jindřich Waldes, sběratel umění. Vyd. 1. Praha: Patrik Šimon - Eminent. 227 s. ISBN 809025683X. 2001. info
  • PEREC, Georges. Kabinet sběratele :historie jednoho obrazu. Translated by Kateřina Vinšová - Tomáš Vondrovic. Vyd. 1. Praha: Paseka. 69 s. ISBN 80-7185-355-0. 2001. info
Teaching methods
Primarily lectures, but as well class discussion, individual&team projects.
Assessment methods
The percentage attendance of students in lectures, their active involvement in lessons, the application of the knowledge acquired is monitored. The output is the final written test consisting of a visual and contextual-theoretical part, or an oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.

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