DU2848 European Art of the Eighteenth Century

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2017
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 14:10–15:45 K31
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
DU2848/01: No timetable has been entered into IS. P. Suchánek
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 16 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/16, only registered: 0/16
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of this course is to stimulate debate concerning what 18th-century artworks can tell us about history and society and how they mediated past social and cultural interactions and to give students a chance to present their own work.
Syllabus
  • The seminar will be structured around a series of panels that focus on particular types of artworks and intertwined particular thematic questions.
  • Rococo visual culture
  • Portrait and identity
  • Empiricism and the culture of the "Sentiment"
  • Art, science, and philosophy in the Enlightenment
  • Art criticism, perception and the "period eye"
  • Gender and feminist perspectives
  • Visual culture of the Neoclassicism
  • Art and politics in the era of revolutions
Literature
  • Rococo echo : art, history and historiography from Cochin to Coppola. Edited by Melissa Lee Hyde - Katie Scott. Oxford: Voltaire foundation, 2014, xi, 397. ISBN 9780729411585. info
  • Rethinking the baroque. Edited by Helen Hills. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011, xv, 243. ISBN 9780754666851. info
  • NAGINSKI, Erika. Sculpture and enlightenment. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2009, vii, 325. ISBN 9780892369591. info
  • SHERIFF, Mary D. Moved by love : inspired artists and deviant women in eighteenth-century France. Pbk. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, xiii, 303. ISBN 9780226752877. info
  • HYDE, Melissa Lee. Making up the rococo : François Boucher and his critics. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2006, x, 255. ISBN 0892367431. info
  • MINOR, Vernon Hyde. The death of the baroque and the rhetoric of good taste. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, x, 196. ISBN 0521843413. info
  • Women, art and the politics of identity in eighteenth-century Europe. Edited by Melissa Lee Hyde - Jennifer D. Milam. Burlington: Ashgate, 2003, xviii, 310. ISBN 0754607100. info
  • POTTS, Alex. Flesh and the ideal : Winckelmann and the origins of art history. 1st pbk. ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, vi, 294. ISBN 0300087365. info
  • SHERIFF, Mary D. The exceptional woman : Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the cultural politics of art. Pbk. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997, xiv, 353. ISBN 0226752828. info
  • SCOTT, Katie. The rococo interior : decoration and social spaces in early eighteenth-century Paris. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, ix, 342. ISBN 0300045824. info
Teaching methods
homework, group projects, presentations, class discussion
Assessment methods
Students are required to write a case study and participate in a final group project, orally present their research and attend the class discussion.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
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