DU2514 Seminar: Conversatorium to the approaches in Art History

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc.
Timetable
Tue 13:20–14:55 B13
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The „conversatorium“ is a particular kind of seminar, in which selected methodical approaches of contemporary art history will be studied. At the same time, it is proposed an active collaboration of the student to read art historical and methodological writings critically.
Syllabus
  • 1. Donald Preziosi and “art“ of art history – „the end of art history“. & 2. The arthistorical approaches – three ways. & 3. The technological aspects of connoisseurship: Eric van de Wetering, Federico Zeri. & 4. The stylistic historical approach: Robert Suckale, Eric Fernie. & 5. Beholder is in picture: Wolfgang Kemp. & 6. The historical anthropology and art history: Georges Didi-Huberman. & 7. Les mentalités and „habitus“: Pierre Bourdieu and „school of Annales E.S.C.“& 8. The art and the image: Horst Bredekamp. & 9. The History and art history: Francis Haskell.& 10. The historical preservation - „conservation-restauration“: Cesare Brandi, Paul Philipotte. & 11. Towards a „critical theory“. & 12. The „real spaces“: David Summers.& 13. The symbolic form in the new system of anthropological disciplines: Hans Belting.&
Literature
  • The art of art history : a critical anthology. Edited by Donald Preziosi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, 595 s. ISBN 0192842420. info
  • Art history and its methods : a critical anthology. Edited by Eric Fernie. Repr. London: Phaidon, 1999, 384 s. ISBN 0714829919. info
  • BELTING, Hans. Konec dějin umění. Translated by Jan Hlavička. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2000, 244 s. ISBN 8020408568. info
  • BELTING, Hans. Bild-Anthropologie : Entwürfe für eine Bildwissenschaft. 2. Aufl. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2002, 278 s. ISBN 3770534492. info
  • Haskell, Francis: History and its Images. Art and the Interpretation of the Past, 1993
  • HASKELL, Francis. Patrons and painters : a study in the relations between Italian art and society in the age of the Baroque. Rev. and enlarged ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982, xviii, 474. ISBN 0300025408. info
Assessment methods
The course will be taught as a seminar with a short lecture of clarification of basic themes; the most importance aim of this seminar will be the acquaintence of students with theoretical literature. There will be no exam for this course, but only a colloquium by class participation.
Language of instruction
Czech
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