DU1344k Methodological Seminar: History of the Art History

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s) (from 10 credits increase by 5). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course – seminar deals with the basic literature about the art from antiquity into early modern times. It shows the origin of the art history in the age of humanism and of enlightenment and seeks to describe and define the basic „schools“ of art history until 1945.
Syllabus
  • 1. The antiquity: rhetoric, ekfrasis, art history as a history of inovations. & 2. Middle ages I – art and hagiography, Cennino Cennini, the topographical writings. & 3. Middle ages II – new notion of „art“ and Firenze: Ghiberti, Landino, Alberti, "ars" and Leonardo da Vinci. & 4. The art history as a history of artists ("vite"): Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) and his followers. & 5. The "idea" and academies: "poussenists" and "rubenists" – „ancients et modernes“, "icones symbolicae". & 6. The art history as a history of an ideals: Johann Joachim Winckelmann.& 7. The enlightenment and "idéologie": aesthetics of sentiment, Denis Diderot, „archeology of taste", defining of enlightened art history. & 8. Karl Friedrich von Rumohr: the founder of art history, K. G. Waagen, J. D. Passavant and romanticism. & 9. Arthistorical school of Berlin: the style, two art histories: formal-style and spirit of history. & 10. Positivism and determinism: a) H. Taine, J. Burckhardt; b) G. Semper, A. Springer. & 11. Schools of connoisseurschip: museums, historical preservation, Morellis method as a scientifical approach? & 12. The methodical schools: Heinrich Wölfflin, Henri Focillon& 13. Arthistorical school of Vienna (the "first"): Eitelberger, Thausing, Wickhoff, Riegl, Dvořák, von Schlosser.& 14. The methodical connoisseurschip.& 15. The schools of iconology: Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky& 16. The "new" arthistorical school in Vienna: Hans Sedlmayr, Quido Kaschnitz-Weinberg. &
Literature
  • KROUPA, Jiří. Školy dějin umění. Metodologie dějin umění I. (The Schools of Art History. The Methodology of Art History I.). Druhé, rozšířené a upravené. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2007, 255 pp. I. ISBN 978-80-210-4247-6. info
  • Hubert Locher, Kunstgeschichte als historische Theorie der Kunst: 1750–1950, München 2001
  • Bazin, Germain: Histoire de l historie de l art de Vasari à nous jours, 1968
  • Altmeister moderner Kunstgeschichte. Edited by Heinrich Dilly. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1990, 295 s. ISBN 4496004703. info
Assessment methods
The course will be taught as a seminar with a short lecture of clarification of basic themes; the most importance aim of this seminar will be the acquaintence of students with literature on historiography of art history. There will be no exam for this course, but only a colloquium by class participation and the short presentation about one of arthistorical schools.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007.
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