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IM111 Duchamp and Cage Legacy

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Jozef Cseres (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (deputy)

Supervisor

doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology - Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Department of Musicology - Faculty of Arts

Timetable

each odd Monday 14:10–17:25 J31

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrollment status: enrolled: 30/40, only registered: 4/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

Traditionalism and depart with tradition. Ready-made and Future of Music as visionary acts and philosophical gestures. Found object and found sound. Aesthetics and anti-aesthetics, art and anti-art. Marcel Duchamp and de-aesthetization of art-making. John Cage and anesthetization of noise. Duchamp and Cage as devisers of conceptual and intermedia orientation of art-making. Influence of Duchamp’s and Cage’s work in arts, philosophy and aesthetics.

Literature

• Nicholls, David (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to John Cage. Cambridge UP, Cambridge, 2002.
• Kostelanetz, Richard (ed.): Conversing With Cage. Omnibus Press, Londýn/New York/Sydney, 1989.
• Lyotard, Jean-François: Duchamp’s Trans/formers. Lapis Pr., 1995.
• Haladyn, Julian Jason: Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés. Afterall Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts/Londýn, 2010.
• Cage, John: Silence. Tranzit, Praha, 2010.
• Chalupecký, Jindřich: Úděl umělce: Duchampovské meditace. Torst, Praha, 1998.
• Sanouillet, Michel – Peterson, Elmer (eds.): The Writings of Marcel Duchamp. DaCapo Press, New York, 1989.
• De Duve, Thierry: Kant After Duchamp. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts/Londýn, 1998.
• Cseres, Jozef (ed.): Postduchampovské reflexie I., II. a III. In: Profil súčasného výtvarného umenia 3/04 (s. 86-114), 4/04 (s. 108-133) a 1/05 (s. 94-105), Bratislava 2004.
• Malbert, Roger – Millar, Jeremy – Sandler, Irving – Luckett, Helen – Wright, Lauren A.: Everyday Day is a Good Day: The Visual Art of John Cage. Hayward Publishing, Londýn, 2010.
• Henderson, Linda Darlymple: Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the "Large Glass" and Related Works. Princeton UP, Princeton, 2005.
• Jones, Amelia: Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp. Cambridge UP, Cambridge, 1995
• Brown, Kathan: John Cage Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind. Crown Point Press, San Francisco, 2001.

Teaching methods

Lecture-seminar

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2014.

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