DU2673 Abstract Art in Central Europe 1958-1970

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Marika Svobodová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D.
Timetable
Tue 17:30–19:05 K22
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
Course objectives
The lectures will indroduce students into the problems of abstract art in central Europe in second half of 20th century and will discuss the specific conditions of its formalization. The emhasis will also be placed on art-historical discursus in the framework of central Europe and the question of position of this art on map of "big" art history. At the end of the course students should be able to critically work with terminology and thing over several questions: 1. Relation between abstract art in central Europe and art in west Europe, 2. Realiton between abstract art in central Europe and socialist realism (realation between art and political power), 3. Position of oficial and non-oficial art, 4. The role of artist in central Europe.
Syllabus
  • 1. Central Europe in framework of art historical discursus: Europe divided into West and East, two voices of art history, centre and peripherie, central Europe as a specific region, horizontal history of art, local and universal history of art, hierarchy in art, art and political power (texts of H. Belting, M. Orišková, T. Štrauss, J. Bákoš, P. Piotrowski, B. Groys)
  • 2. Central Europe - region between West and East, central Europe as a part of so called "Eastern Bloc", non-homogenousness of central Europe, localization, periodization, specification (dividing of artistic scene into oficial and non-oficial, relation between abstract art and socialist realism, relation between abstract art of central Europe and art in west Europe, role of artist in society)
  • 3. Troubles with terminology, modification of west abstract art in central Europe (Art Informel, Tachisme, Lyrical Abstraction,Abstract Expressionism, gestural abstraction, Op-art, Kinetic art)
  • 4. The origins and resources of abstract art in central Europe, surrealism in Czechoslovakia (Toyen), experiments of Fr. Hudeček, Fr. Gross, work of Zdenek Rykr, group RA (M. Koreček, V. Zykmund, J. Istler, constructivism in Poland and Hungary (Wladyslaw Strzeminski and Henryk Stazewski, Lajos Kassák a Deszo Korniss), modernism and post war developement
  • 5. Abstract art in countries of central Europe in period 1958 - 1970, Czech, Slovakia, Polish, Hungarian and Romanian shape of art informel, costructive art, op-art, cinetic art and lettrism and its most important artists. (Czech: Ludmila Padrtová, Vladimír Boudník, osobnost Jiřího Koláře, Mikuláš Medek, Jan Koblasa, Jan Kotík, Zdeněk Sýkora, Karel Malich, Vladislav Mirvald,Hugo Demartini, Slovakia: Jozef Jankovič, Marián Čunderlík, Miloš Urbásek, Eduard Ovčáček, Rudolf Fila, Štefan Swartz, Milan Dobeš, Juraj a Mária Bartuszovi, Alojz Klimo, Eduard Antal, Tamara Klimová, Štefan Belohradský, Poland: Henryk Stazewski, Tadeusz Kantor, Adam Marczynski, Jadwiga Maziarska, Kajetan Sosnowski, Zbigniew Gostomski, Roman Opalka, Hungary: Deszo Korniss, Endre Tót, Imre Bak, Romania: Aleksander Kristl, Ivan Picelj
Literature
    recommended literature
  • BELTING, Hans. Konec dějin umění. Translated by Jan Hlavička. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2000, 244 s. ISBN 8020408568. info
  • Primary documents : a sourcebook for Eastern and Central European art since the 1950s. Edited by Laura J. Hoptman - Tomáš Pospiszyl - Il‘ja Iosifovič Kabakov - Ma. New York: Museum of modern art, 2002, 375 s. ISBN 0870703617. info
  • 50 years of art in Central Europe 1949-1999 :aspects/positions. Edited by Lóránd Hegyi. Wien: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 1999, 244 s. ISBN 3900776849. info
  • Europaweit : kunst der 60er Jahre. Edited by Erika Rödiger-Diruf. Karlsruhe: Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, 2002, 240 s. ISBN 377571183X. info
  • PIOTROWSKI, Piotr. Awangarda w cieniu Jałty : sztuka w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej w latach 1945-1989. Wyd. 1. Poznań: Dom wydawniczy Rebis, 2005, 502 s. ISBN 8373014225. info
  • ŠTRAUSS, Tomáš. Zo seba vystupujúce umenia : (príspevok k stratifikácii stredoeurópskych avantgárd). Bratislava: Kalligram, 2003, 346 s. ISBN 8071495646. info
  • 20. storočie (Podřaz.) : Dejiny slovenského výtvarného umenia., 20. storočie. info
    not specified
  • BREGANTOVÁ, Polana. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. Edited by Rostislav Švácha - Marie Platovská. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2007, s. 537-114. ISBN 9788020014896. info
  • GROJS, Boris. Art power. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2008, 187 s. ISBN 9780262072922. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written and visual test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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