US_116a Modern design

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024

The course is not taught in Autumn 2024

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
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 200 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/200, only registered: 0/200, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/200
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 15 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Students should be orientated in the development of the various design fields, they should know the most remarkable creators (designers and producers, especially czech ones), differentiate periodic-styles (biedermeier, historicisms, secession, moderna, cubism, art deco, functionalism), understand the differences between french, german and viennese secession, define english movement Arts & Crafts and its influence on the art´s craft, specify interwar functionalism and Bauhaus. Students should know basic types bent-wood furniture (namely the chairs no. 14, 15, 56).
Syllabus
  • Subject is devoted to the design development since 19th century to 1945, the field of the art´s craft and the styles by the begining of the 19th century (biedermeier) will be taken in as well. The intention is to familiarize the students with the metamorphoses of the shapes and materials and with technological progression especially in the sphere of the housing culture, furnishings and small utility objects made of the glass, ceramics, porcelain and metals. Main attention is focused on czech area and Central European territory – start of the industrial furniture production (Gebrűder Thonet, Spojené uměleckoprůmyslové závody v Brně), phenomenon of the viennese geometric secession and czech cubism, english movement Arts & Crafts, functionalism and Bauhaus.
Literature
  • Adlerová, Alena: Český funkcionalismus 1920 – 1940 (kat. výst. UPM Praha a MG Brno). Praha, Brno 1978
  • Brunecký, Petr: Historický vývoj nábytku (skripta Vysoké školy zemědělské v Brně). Brno 1993; Český kubismus. Architektura a design 1910 - 1925 (kat. výst. UPM Praha). Weil am Rhein 1991; Dějiny českého výtvarného umění I. - IV. Praha;
  • Droste, Magdalena: Bauhaus 1919 – 1933. Kolín nad Rýnem 2002
  • Adlerová, Alena: České užité umění 1918 – 1938. Praha 1983
Teaching methods
Lectures, field excursions
Assessment methods
written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2015.
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