DU2353 Medieval Caucasus: From Colonial Historiography to Material Reality

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2021
Rozsah
2/0/0. 4 kr. Ukončení: k.
Vyučující
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History (přednášející)
Garance
prof. Ivan Foletti, MA, Docteur es Lettres, Docent in Church History
Seminář dějin umění – Filozofická fakulta
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Seminář dějin umění – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
každý lichý pátek 8:00–11:40 K32
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je otevřen studentům libovolného oboru.
Cíle předmětu
The goal of this course is to understand the visual, material and artistic cultures of southern Caucasus from different perspectives. Firstly, the class will be devoted to the deconstruction of the 19th and 20th century colonial and nationalistic perspectives on the region. Further, ta selection of monuments from the 7th to the 13th century will be analyzed with a focus on the trans-cultural reality of the region.
Výstupy z učení
At the end of the class, the student should be able to - To understand should be aware of the importance modern and contemporary history in order to investigate the past - To analyze monuments of pre-modern period within the trans-cultural perspective - To incorporate the research in the region, into the frame of the "Global Art History" - To understand the importance of the cultural heritage of the pre-modern period for the present-day society, namely in the context of the nationalist and ethnically tensions. - To reflect – in the context of investigation of pre-modern cultures – on notions such as racism and visual culture, cultural genocide, etc.
Osnova
  • - Inventing a region in 1800 - Russian Colonial Perspective on the art and cultures of Georgia and Armenia in the 19h century - The birth of National Identities in the 19th century - Armenian Genocide and Art History - Orientalism and the Western Perspective - Josef Strzygowski, Armenian Art, and Racial theories - Stalin and Soviet invention of Armenian and Georgian "National Art" - 7th century Christian visual cultures in Western Asia, and the Mediterranean: the images in the apse - Zvartnots, the central plan buildings, Byzantium and the Arabs - The invention of a Cosmopolitan Capital - Ani between Armenians, Georgians, Latins, Greeks and Turks. - A sacred landscape: Nature and Culture in Dialogue - Under the rule of Tamara: Armenian and Georgia at the Crossroad.
Literatura
  • A. Alpago Novello, Art and architecture in medieval Georgia, Louvain-la-Neuve.
  • P. Blessing, “Medieval monuments from empire to nation states: beyond Armenian and Islamic architecture in the South Caucasus (1180–1300)”, in Foletti/Thunø 2016, 52-69.
  • Cultural Interactions in Medieval Georgia, M. Bacci, T. Kaffenberger, M. Studer-Karlen eds, Wiesbaden.
  • M. Babenčikov, Narodnoe dekorativnoe iskusstvo Zakavkazʹja i ego mastera, Moscow.
  • 20. The Medieval South Caucasus Artistic Cultures of Albania, Armenia and Georgia, Ivan Foletti, Erik Thunø eds, Brno 2016
  • A. Eastmond, Royal imagery in medieval Georgia, University Park.
  • FOLETTI, Ivan a Pavel RAKITIN. From Russia with Love : The First Russian Studies on the Art of Southern Caucasus. Venezia Arti. 2018, roč. 2018, č. 27, s. 15-33. ISSN 0394-4298. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.30687/VA/2385-2720/2018/27/001. URL info
  • FOLETTI, Ivan, Valentine GIESSER a Stefano RICCIONI. Discovering the Southern Caucasus (1800-1930). 2017. URL info
Výukové metody
Interactive teaching, discussion in the class
Metody hodnocení
Written examination on a selected topic
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Další komentáře
Studijní materiály
Předmět je vyučován jednorázově.
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