DU2788 Portrait and identity in Early Modern Europe

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 14:10–15:45 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 18 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/18, only registered: 0/18, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/18
Course objectives
The aim of this course is stimulate debate concerning what the rococo portraits can tell us about identities and the eighteenth-century society and how they mediated past social and cultural interactions, and to give students a chance to present their own work.
Syllabus
  • The seminar will be structured around a series of panels that focus on particular types of portraits or particular thematic questions. Methodologies; what is a portrait
  • Functions of portraits (portrait as a work of art, document, proxy, gift, commemoration, political tool)
  • Portrait, power and social status (portraits of rulers, burgeoisie, artists and scientists, celebrities, underclass)
  • Family, civic and institutional portraits
  • Gender and portraiture (gender identity; body; concepts of beauty, stereotypes)
  • Self-fashioning and self-presentation
Literature
  • BRILLIANT, Richard. Portraiture. 1st pub. London: Reaktion Books, 1991, 192 s. ISBN 9780948462191. info
  • WEST, Shearer. Portraiture. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 256 s. ISBN 0192842587. info
  • POINTON, Marcia R. Hanging the head : portraiture and social formation in eighteenth-century England. 2nd print. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, ix, 278. ISBN 0300073682. info
  • Portraiture : facing the subject. Edited by Joanna Woodall. 1st pub. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997, xv, 282. ISBN 0719046122. info
  • Bluestockings displayed : portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830. Edited by Elizabeth Eger. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xv, 309. ISBN 9780521768801. info
  • WOODS-MARSDEN, Joanna. Renaissance self-portraiture : the visual construction of identity and the social status of the artist. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998, viii, 285. ISBN 0300075960. info
  • Women, art and the politics of identity in eighteenth-century Europe. Edited by Melissa Lee Hyde - Jennifer D. Milam. Burlington: Ashgate, 2003, xviii, 310. ISBN 0754607100. info
  • Femininity and masculinity in eighteenth-century art and culture. Edited by Gillian Perry - Michael Rossington. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994, viii, 262. ISBN 0719042275. info
  • ADAMS, Ann Jensen. Public faces and private identities in seventeenth-century Holland : portraiture and the production of community. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, xii, 398. ISBN 9780521444552. info
  • LEVY, Allison M. Re-membering masculinity in early modern Florence : widowed bodies, mourning and portraiture. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, xx, 194. ISBN 0754654044. info
Teaching methods
home reading, group projects, presentations, class discussion
Assessment methods
Students are required to write a case study and participate on final group project, orally present his/her research and attend the class discussion
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
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