DU2541 Seminar: Methods in the Arthistory

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc.
Timetable
Tue 17:30–19:05 K31
Course Enrolment 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 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the seminar is to acquaint students with these arthistorical methods, concepts and theories that are emerged in the Arthistory mainly in the postwar period of the 20th century.
Syllabus
  • 1. "The Berlin School of Art History " : establishing of the discipline Arthistory
  • 2. "Vienna School of Art History " and the genetic Arthistory
  • 3. History of Art after the World war II
  • 4. Critical theory and contemporary Arthistory
  • 5. Arthistory as a humanistic discipline: key figures
  • 6. Basic concepts in Arthistory: Style
  • 7. Basic concepts in Arthistory : Structure
  • 8. Basic concepts in Arthistory : Theme and Symbol
  • 9. Basic concepts in Arthistory : Function
  • 10. Art-historical approaches: Connoiseurship
  • 11. Art-historical approaches: Formal analysis
  • 12. Art-historical approaches: Iconographical-iconological
  • 13. Autonomous approaches in Art history
  • 14. Approaches in other disciplines - heteronomous
  • 15. Applied disciplines (museology, conservation and preservation of monuments)
Literature
  • KROUPA, Jiří. Metody dějin umění. Metodologie dějin umění 2 (The Methods of the Art History. The Methodology of the Art History 2). První. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2010, 343 pp. Historiae Artium. ISBN 978-80-210-5315-1. info
  • Art history and its methods : a critical anthology. Edited by Eric Fernie. Repr. London: Phaidon, 1999, 384 s. ISBN 0714829919. info
  • MINOR, Vernon Hyde. Art history's history. 2nd ed. New Jersey: Upper saddle river, 2001, xii, 228. ISBN 0130851337. info
  • Art history, aesthetics, visual studies. Edited by Michael Ann Holly - Keith P. F. Moxey. Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2002, xvii, 271. ISBN 0931102499. info
Teaching methods
Seminar and reading of the texts.
Assessment methods
The written paper.
Language of instruction
Czech
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