FF:DU2050 Early modern portraiture - Course Information
DU2050 Seminar: Portraiture and identity in Early Modern Europe
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2021
- 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 12:00–13:40 K32
- 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
- History of Arts (programme FF, N-OT)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to discuss the transformation of portraiture in the 18th century. The subject of study will be how portraits can construct a new social identity of the portrayed, what they say about the changes in the 18th-century society, in what space they were perceived and what social and cultural interactions they provoked. Students will analyze a range of portraits and more general themes related to them, and will have the opportunity to present their own as well as group work.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, a student will be able to:
- identify and summarize key strategies in the field of the early modern portraiture;
- identify and describe the main issues and ways of using and dealing with early modern portraits;
- reconstruct and interpret the ideological content and meaning of the early modern portraiture. - Syllabus
- The seminar will be structured around a series of panels that focus on particular types of portraits and particular themes related to them:
- Methodologies; what is a portrait
- Functions of portraits (portrait as a work of art, document, proxy, gift, commemoration, political tool)
- Portrait, power and social status (portraits of rulers, burgeoisie, artists and scientists, celebrities, underclass)
- Family, civic and institutional portraits
- Gender and portraiture (gender identity; body; concepts of beauty, stereotypes)
- Self-fashioning and self-presentation
- Literature
- Bluestockings displayed : portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830. Edited by Elizabeth Eger. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xv, 309. ISBN 9780521768801. info
- ADAMS, Ann Jensen. Public faces and private identities in seventeenth-century Holland : portraiture and the production of community. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, xii, 398. ISBN 9780521444552. info
- LEVY, Allison M. Re-membering masculinity in early modern Florence : widowed bodies, mourning and portraiture. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, xx, 194. ISBN 0754654044. info
- WEST, Shearer. Portraiture. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 256 s. ISBN 0192842587. 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
- WOODS-MARSDEN, Joanna. Renaissance self-portraiture : the visual construction of identity and the social status of the artist. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998, viii, 285. ISBN 0300075960. info
- POINTON, Marcia R. Hanging the head : portraiture and social formation in eighteenth-century England. 2nd print. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, ix, 278. ISBN 0300073682. info
- Portraiture : facing the subject. Edited by Joanna Woodall. 1st pub. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997, xv, 282. ISBN 0719046122. info
- Femininity and masculinity in eighteenth-century art and culture. Edited by Gillian Perry - Michael Rossington. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994, viii, 262. ISBN 0719042275. info
- BRILLIANT, Richard. Portraiture. 1st pub. London: Reaktion Books, 1991, 192 s. ISBN 9780948462191. info
- Teaching methods
- group projects, presentations, class discussion
- Assessment methods
- Students are required to write a case study and participate on final group project, orally present his/her research and attend the class discussion
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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