DU2715 How the Middle Ages was invented. From Vasari to Belting

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Thursday 14:10–17:25 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The seminar is a reflection of the way in which the historiography distorts the perception of the of art history.
Syllabus
  • - Giorgio Vasari - Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc - Jules Labarte - Nikodim Kondakov - Alois Riegl - Vojtěch Birnbaum - Erwin Panovky - André Grabar - Kurt Weitzmann - Ernst Kitzinger - Thomas Matthews - Herbert L. Kessler - Hans Belting
Literature
    required literature
  • Michael Podro, The Critical Historians of Art, Yale 1982
  • G.C. Sciolla, La critica d’arte del Novecento, Torino 1995
  • Udo Kultermann, Geschichte der Kunstgeschichte: Der Weg einer Wissenschaft, Düsseldorf 1966
  • P. Sénéchal, C. Barbillon, dir., Dictionnaire critique des historiens de l’art actifs en France de la Révolution à la Première Guerre mondiale, Paris, site web de l’INHA, 2009, [En ligne] http://www.inha.fr/spip.php?rubrique347
  • http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/
  • Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon. Zweihundert Porträts deutschprachiger Autoren aus vier Jarhunderten, von P. Betthausen, P.H. Feist und C. Fork unter Mitarbeit von K. Rührdanz und J. Zimmer, Stuttgart – Weimar 1999
  • V. Hyde Minor, Art History’s History, New York 1994
  • Personenlexikon zur Christlichen Archäologie, a cura di Stefan Heid, Regensburg 2012
    recommended literature
  • G. Bazin, Histoire de l’Histoire de l’Art. De Vasari à nos jours, Paris 1986
  • Lionello Venturi, Storia della Critica d’arte, Firenze 1948 [1936]
Teaching methods
Theoretical preparation, oral and written presentations by each participant, class discussion.
Assessment methods
1 ústní (45 min.) a písemná (10 stran textu, shrnující aktuální vědeckou situaci) prezentace.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
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