DU2048 Seminar: Design I (1850–1925)

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Marta Filipová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Lada Hubatová Vacková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Marta Filipová, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 12:00–13:40 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce students in more depth not only into the development of applied arts and design, but primarily into the theoretical discourse, key concepts and terms in these fields; both in the international and local context. The seminar series are preceded by the lecture series Design I, which it develops by closer interpretation of objects and texts. In the seminars, each student selects a topic based on a specific design object from the period 1850–1925. The topic could be related to the city of Brno, the design collection of the Moravian Gallery, but this is not a condition and can be negotiated. In the course of the semester, the student will work on the topic and present it to the peers and lecturers. The lecture and seminar series Design I is followed by the lecture and seminar series Design II (1925-2000) in the spring semester.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the students will be able to:
- identify and describe the features of the main stages in the history of design;
- identify the key tendencies and directions in local and international design of the period;
- understand the main theoretical design concepts of the period;
- understand the circumstances in which design is created and produced;
- interpret the objects in their cultural, political, social and theoretical context.
Syllabus
  • Introduction in the history and theory of the design studies. Outline of the course and the format of the lectures, introduction of key terms and themes of the surveyed period
  • 1851: The Great Exhibition in London and the role of design, the birth of the design museum
  • 1873: Weltaustellung in Vienna, templates of applied arts museums and schools in the Habsburg Monarchy, the context in Bohemia and Moravia in the second half of the 19th century, institutional history, the discourse about design, craft and applied arts in the Czech context
  • Design, ornament and decoration: The Arts and Crafts movement(Ruskin, Morris, Crane, ad.), Secession, Japonism, exoticisms, folklorisms, primitivisms
  • Design and national identity: the reception of Arts and Crafts in the Czech lands (Šalda, Weigner, Štech, Artěl, etc.), the vernacular style (Zádruha, Moravská ústředna, Jurkovič, Klvaňa, Vydra, Šíma st., "authentic" folk art)
  • Discussion about students' course work
  • Discussion about students' course work
  • Modernism at the beginning of the 20th century: Werkbund, Bauhaus, the international style
  • Deutsche Werkbundaustellung in Cologne, 1914 and the Czech exhibition of cubism, The Association of Czech(oslovak) Work, a synergy of the national and international
  • Art Deco: The Paris Exposition in 1925, the hybrid style
  • the Czechoslovak representation at the Paris exposition, fall out between the decorative artists and the avant-garde, The Exhibition of Contemporary Culture in Brno, 1928
  • Visit to an exhibition or a tour of a building, discussion.
Literature
    required literature
  • Design : critical and primary sources. Edited by D. J. Huppatz. First published. London: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016, xxxiii, 24. ISBN 9781472539366. info
  • Design v českých zemích 1900-2000 : instituce moderního designu. Edited by Iva Knobloch - Radim Vondráček. Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, 2016, 658 stran. ISBN 9788071011576. info
  • Věci a slova : umělecký průmysl, užité umění a design v české teorii a kritice 1870-1970. Edited by Lada Hubatová-Vacková - Martina Pachmanová - Pavla Pečinková, Tra. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze, 2014, 572 s. ISBN 9788086863696. info
  • SPARKE, Penny. An introduction to design and culture : 1900 to the present. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2004, x, 280. ISBN 0415263360. URL info
  • Twentieth-century design. Edited by Jonathan M. Woodham. 1st publ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, 288 s. ISBN 0192842048. info
    recommended literature
  • FALLAN, Kjetil. Design history : understanding theory and method. London: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014, xix, 207. ISBN 9781847885388. info
  • History of design : decorative arts and material culture, 1400-2000. Edited by Pat Kirkham - Susan Weber - Heather Jane McCormick - John Robert Alder. New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2013, xiii, 698. ISBN 9780300196146. info
  • MEIKLE, Jeffrey L. Design in the USA. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 252 s. ISBN 0192842196. info
  • SPARKE, Penny. Století designu : průkopníci designu 20. století. 1. vyd. Praha: Slovart, 1999, 272 s. ISBN 8072091425. info
Teaching methods
seminars with group discussions, individual presentations
Assessment methods
The seminar work is assessed on the basis of 1. oral presentation in the seminar. As part of the presentation, the student presents an object in its art historical, typological, user-oriented, theoretical or other context, and the ways of interpreting it. 2. a written summary submitted at the end of the semester, with respective bibliography, of about 6-8 standard pages. The course work will be based on an in-depth research of the object, archival material and literature and on interpretation of the respective work.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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