English

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The home faculty only

Students will be able to name and characterize some key figures, works and topics from 20th Century Czech Art history.

Basic knowledge of general and art history and culture history of the 20th century.

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Lectures accompanied with slides of reproductions of the key works are supported with class discussions, excursions and a guest lecture.

Attendence (5/6 sessions) + short essay (2-3 pages) on selected topic from Czech Modern Art

1. Introduction: Key Concepts in Czech Historiography and Criticism of Modern Art
2. What is Czech About Czech Cubism?
3. What is Socialist About Czech Socialist Visual Culture?
4. Czech Contemporary Gender and Queer Art
5. Guest lecture: Czech Modern Art in Discussion with Older Art
6. Excursion: Art Is Here!
7. Excursion: Exhibiting Czech Functionalism

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The aim of the lecture series is to introduce selected topics from the 20th Century Czech Art History and the students will be able to discuss problematic issues and concepts such as „Czechness“ of Modern Art, gender criticism in Czech Modern Art or the problems of exhibiting Czech Modern Art in museum institutions.

Classes take place in two-hour sessions in terms arrandged in the beginning of a semester.

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Laura J. Hoptman, Tomáš Pospiszyl. Majlena Braun; Clay Tarica; Il'ja Josifovič Kabakov, Primary documents : a sourcebook for Eastern and Central European art since the 1950s, New York 2002
Piotr Piotrowski, Art and democracy in post-communist Europe, London 2012
Pejic, B.: Gender Check: A Reader: Art and Gender in Eastern Europe since the 1960s, Köln 2011. (EN)
Bartlová, M.: Unsere "nationale" Kunst : Studien zur Geschichte der Kunstgeschichte. Ostfildern 2016. (EN)
Janevski, A.; Marcoci, R.; Nouril, K.: Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology. Durham 2018. (EN)
Bartlová, M.: Continuity and discontinuity in the Czech legacy of the Vienna School of Art History. Journal of Art Historiography, on-line: https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/bartlovc3a1.pdf (EN)
Vybiral, J.: What is ‘Czech’ in Art in Bohemia? Alfred Woltmann and defensive mechanisms of Czech artistic historiography. Journal of Art Historiography, on-line: https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/vybiral.pdf (EN)
Liška, P.; Švestka, J.; Vlček, T.: Czech Cubism 1909–1925: Art, Architecture, Design. Prague 2006. (EN)
Zarecor, K. E.: Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960. Pittsburgh 2011. (EN)
Bartlova, M.; Vybiral, J.: Budování státu / Building a State: Reprezentace Československa v umění, architektuře a designu / The Representation of Czechoslovakia in Art, Architecture and Design. Praha 2015. (EN)
Madl, K. B.: Jan Kotera: Primary Source Edition. Charleston 2014. (EN)

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