DU2313 The Space of Landscape: From Bosch to Land Art

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 12:00–13:40 K31, except Tue 16. 4.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to explore changing ideas and images of the world and nature in Western art from the Renaissance to the present. It will focus on to the genre of landscape painting and famous landscape painters, as well as other forms of artistic reflection on landscape (land art, garden design, photography, etc.). These are looked at in relation to key themes related to landscape art (landscape as a cultural construct, landscape and politics, landscape as knowledge of the world, etc.).
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course the student will be able to:
- identify and summarize the important features of a given issue;
- describe the factors that influence the representation of landscape in different historical periods;
- propose and explain an appropriate method for researching a selected work or artist.
Syllabus
  • Spiritual landscape
  • The grandeur of nature and infinite space
  • Landscape and the knowledge of the world
  • Landscape and politics
  • The dominated landscape
  • Journeys and wanderings through the landscape
  • Imaginary landscapes, landscapes of memory
  • Landscape entropy
  • Landscape and civilization
Literature
  • Landscape painting now : from pop abstraction to new romanticism. Edited by Todd Bradway - Robert R. Shane - Louise Sørensen - Susan A. Van Scoy. First published. London: Thames & Hudson, 2019, 368 stran. ISBN 9780500239940. info
  • Ends of the earth : land art to 1974. Edited by Philipp Kaiser - Miwon Kwon. 1st ed. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012, 263 s. ISBN 9783791351940. info
  • COSGROVE, Denis E. Geography and vision : seeing, imagining and representing the world. London: I.B. Tauris, 2008, xi, 256. ISBN 9781850438472. info
  • BÜTTNER, Nils. Landscape painting : a history. Translated by Russell Stockman. 1st ed. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2006, 416 s. ISBN 0789209020. info
  • ANDREWS, Malcolm. Landscape and Western art. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, vii, 248. ISBN 9780192842336. info
  • COSGROVE, Denis E. Social formation and symbolic landscape. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998, xxxvii, 29. ISBN 0299155145. URL info
  • Landscape and power. Edited by W. J. T. Mitchell. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994, vii, 248. ISBN 0226532070. info
  • THOMSON, Richard and Michael CLARKE. Monet to Matisse : landscape painting in France 1874-1914. Edinburgh: Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, 1994, 199 stran. ISBN 0903598477. info
  • Denatured visions : landscape and culture in the twentieth century. Edited by Stuart Wreke - William Howard Adams. New York: Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1991, 143 p. ISBN 0810961059. info
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
final essay
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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