DU2037 Seminar: Between East and West. Art of the divided world after 1945

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ing. Marcela Rusinko, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Ing. Marcela Rusinko, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Ing. Marcela Rusinko, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 8:00–9:40 K33
Prerequisites
Orientation overview in the history of modern and contemporary art.
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 focuses on acquainting the major artistic personalities, tendencies and currents in world art after the Second World War. It as well as covers current research topics of confrontation, contradiction and interference in the artistic tendencies of the Western and Eastern bloc of the politically divided world. It covers a period of three decades, i.e. from the late 1940s to the late 1970s. How did the so-called "Western" art penetrate our cultural space? What was the awareness of "our" art behind the Iron Curtain? The project seminar aims to develop students' knowledge and scientific competence. As well, the aim is to provide not only the knowledge needed for the final state examination, but also the background for developing individual thesis topics.
Learning outcomes
- the ability to identify and characterize the main contemporary art tendencies
- ability to work with historical sources and literature
analysis of the work of art in the context of authorship and the time of its origin
- orientation knowledge of main period texts and studies
- basic overview of the institutionalization of postwar art within the so-called Western and Eastern Bloc
- sovereign orientation in basic terms, period groups, exhibitions, periodics
ability to contextualize the knowledge with the respect to the Czech cultural environment and the current level of research
Syllabus
  • Cultural migration from Europe to the USA and World War II
  • The 40s and 50s Abstract Art in America and Europe vs. Europe socialist realism
  • Between West and East. Contradiction and interference in the art of the divided world
  • The institutionalization of the world after the WWII in the Eastern and Western bloc
  • Key postwar exhibitions of "Western" art in Europe and Czechoslovakia
  • Periodicals of the divided art world. Czechoslovakia vs. world
  • Alternative ways of the Czechoslovak artists to Western galleries, collections or periodicals
  • Art criticism between East and West
  • Photography as a medium of confrontation and transgression
  • Art Collecting and Iron Curtain
Literature
    required literature
  • MRÁZ, Bohumír. Dějiny výtvarné kultury. 1. vyd. Praha: Idea Servis, 2002, 197 s. ISBN 8085970325. info
  • PIJOAN, José. Dějiny umění. 10 [Euromédia Group, 2000]. Vyd. 4., v Knižním klubu 1. Praha: Euromedia Group - Knižní klub, 2000, 300 s. : i. ISBN 80-242-0218-210. info
  • Před obrazem : antologie americké výtvarné teorie a kritiky. Edited by Tomáš Pospiszyl, Translated by Věra Chase - Ruben Pellar. 1. vyd. Praha: OSVU, 1998, 189 s. ISBN 8023812966. info
    recommended literature
  • BELL, Julian. Zrcadlo světa : nové dějiny umění. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2010, 496 s. ISBN 9788025702802. info
  • FOSTER, Hal. Umění po roce 1900 : modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus. Translated by Josef Hrdlička - Irena Ellis - Jitka Sedláčková. Praha: Slovart, 2007, 704 s. ISBN 9788072099528. info
  • Art in modern culture : an anthology of critical texts. Edited by Jonathan Harris - Francis Frascina. Repr. London: Phaidon, 2003, 340 s. ISBN 0714828408. info
  • PIJOAN, José. Dějiny umění. 11 [Euromédia Group, 2000]. Vyd. 1. Praha: Euromedia Group - Knižní klub, 2000, 262 s. : i. ISBN 80-242-0449-511. info
  • Encyklopedie Umění nové doby : Umění nové doby : encyklopedie (Variant.). Edited by René Huyghe. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon - nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1974, 470 s. : i. info
    not specified
  • Art beyond Borders : Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe (1945-1989), Herndon: Central European University Press 2015
  • Davies, Alastair ; Sinfield, Alan. British Culture of the Post-War : An Introduction to Literature and Society 1945-1999, London: Routledge 2001.
  • Art beyond borders : artistic exchange in communist Europe (1945-1989). Edited by Jerôme Bazin - Pascal Dubourg Glatigny - Piotr Piotrowski. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2016, xii, 494. ISBN 9789633860830. info
  • PIOTROWSKI, Piotr. Art and democracy in post-communist Europe. Translated by Anna Brzyski. London: Reaktion Books, 2012, 312 stran. ISBN 9781861898951. info
  • PIOTROWSKI, Piotr. In the shadow of Yalta : art and the avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989. Translated by Anna Brzyski. First published. London: Reaktion Books, 2009, 487 stran. ISBN 9781861898630. info
  • České umění, 1938-1989 : programy, kritické texty, dokumenty. Edited by Pavlína Morganová - Dagmar Svatošová - Jiří Ševčík. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2001, 520 s. ISBN 8020009302. info
  • GREENBERG, Clement. The collected essays and criticism. Edited by John O'Brian. Pbk. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, xvi, 341. ISBN 0226306240. info
Teaching methods
The combination of teacher's lectures and active both individual and group work of students on their own projects. The discussion over a current literature, as well as exhibition and scientific projects.
Assessment methods
The prerequisite for the completion is active participation (80% of seminars, even less can be justified), continuous fulfillment of tasks and cooperation during the lessons and projects.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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