DU2300 Pictures of Things in Early Modern and Modern Art

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2020
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
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 16:00–17:40 K33
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Painting things appeared mostly in still life. The goal of the course focuses not only in the history of this genre but also in other possibilities of using things or objects in art and to demonstrate their meaning.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to understand the changing meaning of things or objects in art.
Syllabus
  • Beginnings of still life.
  • Norman Bryson and the still life in modern time.
  • Michel Foucault, Les mots et les choses; analyses of the relation between things and their representation.
  • What do things tell about?
  • Still life and science in the early modern era.
  • Objects and worship.
  • Things, consumption and desire in the 18th century.
  • Painting things in cubism.
  • New objectivity, vicinity and remoteness of things.
  • Collage, assemblage, object.
  • Phenomenology and the question of perception.
  • Possibilities of representation or use of things in contemporary art.
Literature
  • NORMAN, Bryson. Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2001. ISBN 0-948462-07-8. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Slová a veci : archeológia humanitných vied. Translated by Mária Marcelliová - Miroslav Marcelli. Druhé vydanie. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2000, 396 stran. ISBN 8071493309. info
  • Cubism, Constructivism, Form Art. Edited by Alexander Klee - Agnes Husslein-Arco - Kerstin Jesse. Munich: Prestel, 2016, 311 stran. ISBN 9783903114012. info
  • Sense and the senses in early modern art and cultural practice. Edited by Alice E. Sanger - Siv Tove Kulbrandstad Walker. Surrey: Ashgate, 2012, xv, 257. ISBN 9781409400042. info
  • MERRIAM, Susan. Seventeenth-century Flemish garland paintings : still life, vision, and the devotional image. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, x, 173. ISBN 9781409403050. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Toto nie je fajka. Translated by Miroslav Marcelli. 2. vyd., V Kalligrame 1. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2010, 63 s. ISBN 9788081012044. info
  • SCHNEIDER, Norbert. Still life : still life painting in the early modern period. Köln: Taschen, 1999, 215 s. ISBN 3822865230. info
  • MICHALSKI, Sergiusz. New objectivity : painting, graphic art and photography in Weimar Germany 1919-1933. Köln: Benedikt Taschen, 1994, 220 stran. ISBN 3822896500. info
  • HARRISON, Charles, Francis FRASCINA and Gillian PERRY. Primitivism, cubism, abstraction : the early twentieth century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, 270 stran. ISBN 0300055161. info
  • GREEN, Christopher. Cubism and its enemies : modern movements and reactions in French art, 1916-1928. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987, 325 stran. ISBN 0300034687. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Essay.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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