DU1720 The Art of the Contemporary World: from Courbet to Bill Viola II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ing. Marcela Rusinko, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Ing. Marcela Rusinko, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Ing. Marcela Rusinko, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 8:00–9:40 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
Course objectives
Basic overview-systematic bachelor's course in the field of modern and contemporary art in the Czech lands, covering the time period from the second half of the 19th Century to the present days.

Students are led through the lectures and their own, individually or group-solved thematic outputs to a complex knowledge grasp of the given topic.

The aim is to build a coherent structural framework that can be followed by students in the follow-up study or their own thematic research and subsequent work with the sources.

Emphasis is placed on overviewing of the subject matter, introduction to the basic milestones of the development of visual arts, architecture and applied art in our environment in the given period.

At the same time, the ability of a sovereign and unambiguous visual identification of distinctive artistic directions and creative positions, their confrontation with the contemporary development of the world art.
Learning outcomes
Students are able to:

- sovereign orientation in the development of painting, sculpture, architecture and applied art from the mid 19th Century to the present days in the Czech environment
- following the course "Art of the Contemporary World: from Courbet to Billy Viola I" and in the development of contemporary foreign art and the contextual interconnection of these knowledge circuits
- fast orientation in traditional and up-to-date literature
- a sovereign contextual classification and a brief characterization of the distinctive stylistic and creative manifestations of the period
- sovereign visual orientation in the work of prominent personalities of the Czech art of the period
- actively handle the terminology related
Syllabus
  • - the second half of the 19th Century in the Czech lands
  • -the Czech art of the turn of the century
  • - Czech Expressionism and the set-out of avant-garde
  • -Czech art until 1918
  • -the art of abstraction in Czech lands
  • -the art between two wars in Czechoslovakia
  • - Czech photography
  • -Czech sculpture to WWII
  • -Czech art in the WWII period
  • - Czech art of the 50s and 60s of the 20th Century
  • - Czech art during the period of so-called "standardization"
  • - Czech sculpture of the second half of the 20th Century
  • - Czech art after 1990
Literature
    required literature
  • MRÁZ, Bohumír. Dějiny výtvarné kultury. 4. 1. vyd. V Praze: Idea servis, 2002. 197 s.
  • MRÁZ, Bohumír. Dějiny výtvarné kultury. 3. vyd. V Praze: Idea servis, 2008, 209 s. ISBN 9788085970616. info
  • BREGANTOVÁ, Polana. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. Edited by Rostislav Švácha - Marie Platovská. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2007, 526 s. ISBN 9788020014894. info
  • ŠVÁCHA, Rostislav and Marie PLATOVSKÁ. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění V 1939/1958. Praha: Acadamea, nakladatelství Akademie věd České republiky, 2005, 525 pp. ISBN 80-200-1390-3. info
  • DUFEK, Antonín. Vademecum : moderní umění v Čechách a na Moravě, 1890-1938. Edited by Hana Rousová. Praha: Gallery, 2002, 415 s. ISBN 8086010627. info
  • Dějiny českého výtvarného umění 1780/1890, 3/I - II. 1st ed. Praha: Academia, 2001, s.470, 407. info
  • ADLEROVÁ, Alena. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. [D.]Ş4/2, 1890/1938. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1998, 478 s. : i. ISBN 80-200-0623-0. info
    recommended literature
  • Kol. autorů. Umění zrychleného času. Česká výtvarná scéna 1958-1968. České muzeum výtvarných umění 1999.
  • ROUSOVÁ, Hana. Abstrakce : Čechy mezi centry modernity 1918-1950 : nejen o vztazích volného a užitého umění. Vydání první. v Praze: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová, 2015, 220 stran. ISBN 9788087989074. info
  • ROUSOVÁ, Hana, Lenka BYDŽOVSKÁ, Vojtěch LAHODA, Milan PECH, Anna PRAVDOVÁ and Lucie ZADRAŽILOVÁ. Konec avantgardy? : od mnichovské dohody ke komunistickému převratu. Vydání první. V Řevnicích: Arbor vitae, 2011, 337 stran. ISBN 9788087164648. info
  • České moderní a současné umění, 1890-2010 : katalog stálé expozice Sbírky moderního a současného umění a Sbírky umění 19. století Národní galerie v Praze. Edited by Karolína Dolanská. V Praze: Národní galerie, 2010, 182 s. ISBN 9788070353257. info
  • BLAŽÍČKOVÁ-HOROVÁ, Naděžda, Šárka LEUBNEROVÁ and Tomáš SEKYRKA. Umění 19. století v Čechách : 1790-1910 - malířství, sochařství a užité umění : průvodce expozicí. V Praze: Národní galerie, 2009, 191 s. ISBN 9788070354254. info
  • České umění 1938-1989 : programy, kritické texty, dokumenty. Edited by Pavlína Morganová - Jiří Ševčík - Dagmar Svatošová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2001, 520 s. ISBN 8020009302. info
  • BLAŽÍČKOVÁ - HOROVÁ, Naděžda. České malířství 19. století. Katalog stálé expozice Sbírky umění 19. století. Klášter sv. Anežky. 1. vyd. Praha: Národní galerie, 1998, s. 343. info
  • Art when time stood still. Edited by Alena Potůčková - Ivan Neumann - Olaf Hanel - Jiří Šetlík. [V Praze]: České muzeum výtvarných umění, 1996, 118 stran. ISBN 8070560509. info
    not specified
  • Between the first and second modernity :1985-2012 : catalogue. Edited by Jiří Ševčík - Edith Jeřábková. Vydání první. Praha: Vědecko-výzkumné pracoviště AVU, 2011, 756 stran. ISBN 9788087108291. info
Teaching methods
Students are introduced to the topics through theoretical lectures and seminar, individually solved themes. Reflected and discussed are always topical issues related to the topic of education - exhibitions, publications, lectures, television programs, artistic criticisms of the outputs in the given area. The percentage attendance of students in lessons, their active participation in the topics discussed, the application of the acquired knowledge is monitored. The output is a separately elaborated comparative topic in the form of a seminar work and a paper, a detailed written and oral examination containing an visual-knowledge test.
Assessment methods
Written and oral exam including an visual-knowledge test.
In the oral part the student analyses a randomly chosen work of art - style characteristics, authorship, time and circumstances of origin.
Preparation of an individual or group report on the given topic or seminar work. Active participation in class discussions and possible joint visits of exhibitions and institutions, monitoring of the current issues in the field are required.
The complexity of grasp of studied subject, orientation in literature and problems, ability to assign a randomly chosen work of art is evaluated.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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