FF:DU2333 Fin-de-Siècle art - Course Information

DU2333 Fin-de-Siècle art

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021

The course is not taught in Spring 2021

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Richard Warren, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Syllabus

Background
1. Historical context
2. Naturalism
3. Post-Impressionism (Paul Gauguin/Pont Aven, Puvis de Chavannes)
Countries
4. Belgium and France (Horta, the Nancy school, the Symbolists)
5. Germany and Austria (Otto Wagner, Klimt and the Vienna Secession, Stuck)
6. Central Europe (Krakow, Prague, Budapest, Mucha, Wyspianski, Preisler, folk art)
7. Great Britain (Ruskin, Morris, the Arts and Crafts Movement, The Glasgow Four, Beardsley)
8. Scandinavia and Russia (Munch, Nijinsky and Bakst, Vrubel)
Themes
9. Sexuality
10. Modernity
11. Psychology
12. Classicism
13. Nationalism/Orientalism
Forward look
14. Modernism - Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Constructivism, Futurism, Surrealism

Literature

HOWARD, Jeremy. Art nouveau : international and national styles in Europe. First published. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996, xiv, 240. ISBN 0719041600. info
LUCIE-SMITH, Edward. Symbolist art. London: Thames & Hudson, 1972, 216 s. ISBN 0500201250. info
WITTLICH, Petr. Česká secese. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1982, 379 s. URL info
Huysmans, J.-K., and J. Howard (2009), Against the Grain, Auckland: Floating Press
Lombardi, L., and A. Arnone (2009), From Realism to Art Nouveau, New York: Sterling
Thomson, R. (2012), Art of the Actual: Naturalism and Style in Early Third Republic France, 1880–1900, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
Prettejohn, E. (2012), The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso, London: I.B. Tauris
Reeder, R. (1976), ‘Mikhail Vrubel: A Russian Interpretation of “Fin de Siècle” Art’, The Slavonic and East European Review, 54: 323–34

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught: every other week.

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020.