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International art after 1945
FaVU-1SU1945Acad. year: 2014/2015
The lectures will present the main trends and tendencies in art after 1945. The western "canon" will be stressed, although occassional views at the art of the countries of the former East-bloc, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, will be also presented.
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2. Black Mountain College ( john Cage), other artistic schools in the USA. the formation of the neoavantgarde. neodada. The interest in the quotidian. New Realism in Europe.
3. Artistic response to culture industry and popular (visual) culture. The Independent Group, Pop, its tradition into the 90s.
4. The various forms of "action art." Jackson Pollock and Gutai. Allan Kaprow and happenings. Yves Klein.The forms of performance and its periodical and local metamorphoses. (Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Richard Serra, Marina Abramovic…).
5. Minimalism and postminimalism. (Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Eva Hesse). Conceptual art in its historical phase (institutional critique, socially engaged forms of conceptualism.)
6. Site-specific art, public art, new genre public art - the forms of art in public space. Land art, its representants. (Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, Helen and Newton Harrison, Agnes Denes).
7. New media art. The beginnings of videoart. Experiments in Art and Technology. Art and TV. Digitalization. net art. New media art and institutions.
8. Photography in art. Conceptual art and photography. (Ed Ruscha, Ernd and Hilla Becher, Düsseldorf school, Gabriel Orozco…). "Monumental photography" – Andreas Gursky, Jeff Wall. Photography, subjectivity, identity (Cindy Shermann). Subjective archive - blog. Richter's Atlas, Wolfgang Tillmans.
9. Returns of figural painting. New figuration of 1960s, hyperrealism, neoexpressionism, Neue Wilde, Transavantguardia, postmodern painting, critical and historical painting.
10. Figurative sculpture 1945. Humanistic reinterpretation of surrealism and abstraction (David Smith, Henry Moore); existencialism (Alberto Giacometti); hyperrealism (Duane Hanson, Ron Mueck); Young Brittish Artists (Jake and Dinos Chapman, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Marc Quinn); "sculpture today" (Mark Manders, Ricky Swallow, Franz Wes, Rachel Harrison...).
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- Programme Bachelor's
branch AS1 , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AGD2 , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch APD , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AVI , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AEN , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AMU , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch APE , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch ATD , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AM2 , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AM3 , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AS2 , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AKG , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AM1 , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AGD1 , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AIN , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory