DU2318 Abstraction and Figuration

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 14:00–15:40 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course deals with relations between abstraction and figuration in world and Czech art od the 20th century.
Learning outcomes
After the course, student will be able to interpretate forms and topics of the avant-garde and more traditional art and to write an essay about the selected avant-garde piece of art.
Syllabus
  • 1. Defining of the topic: the meaning of terms 2. Reductive principles in modern art 3. Connections between abstraction and figuration in the first half of the 20th century 4. Abstraction and figuration as ennemies 5. Modern and traditional forms after 1945 6. Abstraction and figuration in the second half of the 20th century 7. Abstraction and figuration in sculpture 8. Abstraction and figuration in Czech art
Literature
  • Abstraction. Edited by Maria Lind. 1st pub. London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2013, 239 s. ISBN 9780262518369. info
  • DICKERMAN, Leah. Inventing abstraction 1910-1925 : how a radical idea changed modern art. Edited by Matthew Affron. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012, 376 s. ISBN 9780870708282. info
  • NICKAS, Robert. Painting abstraction : new elements in abstract painting. 1st pub. London: Phaidon, 2009, 343 s. ISBN 9780714849331. URL info
  • Neogeo : a new edge to abstraction. Edited by Robert Klanten - Sven Ehmann - Birga Meyer. Berlin: Gestalten Verlag, 2007, 191 s. ISBN 9783899551945. info
  • Central European avant-gardes : exchange and transformation, 1910-1930. Edited by Péter Nádas - Timothy O. Benson - Monika Krol. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003, 447 s. ISBN 0262025221. info
  • Ornament and abstraction : the dialogue between non-Western, modern and contemporary art. Edited by Ernst Beyeler - Markus Brüderlin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, 255 s. ISBN 3905632152. info
  • HARRISON, Charles, Francis FRASCINA and Gillian PERRY. Primitivism, cubism, abstraction : the early twentieth century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, 270 stran. ISBN 0300055161. info
  • Czech modernism, 1900-1945. Edited by Jaroslav Anděl - Anne Tucker - Alison de Lima Greene - Ralph McKay -. First edition. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989, 263 stran. ISBN 0821217631. info
  • BRU, Charles-Pierre. Esthétique de l'abstraction : essai sur le probleme actuel de la peinture. [Paris?]: Privat, 1955, 331 s. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Essay and written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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