Course detail

Overview of the 20th Century World Art History between 1900–1945 2

FaVU-1SDU-LAcad. year: 2023/2024

The course introduces basic concepts, ideas, programs, artistic exchange and political, social and economic conditions to the artistic work between 1900–1945. The course includes all media: painting, sculpture, photography, installation and typography. The lectures address critical issues of the role of institutions such as academies, artistic groups and collectives, museums and galleries and artistic criticism as well. The course includes critical approaches to issues like social and gender equality, national and racial politics from the post-colonialist and feminist view point. Students will be able to critically think about Early Modern Art and they will be able to use proper terms and concepts.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Guarantor

PhDr. Ladislav Jackson, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Entry knowledge

Basic knowledge of history of modernity and modern culture.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Written exam - test.
Attendance compulsory.

Aims

The aim of the course is to present major figures, artistic works, artistic groups, programs and institutions of European, North-American and Latin-American art between 1925 to 1945, to present contemporary way of thinking and characterize contemporary texts and manifestos.
Students will have a basic overview of artistic institutions, key figures and their work; they will be able to attribute key artistic works and they will be able to characterize artistic programs and groups of European, North-American and Latin-American modernism between 1925 to 1940.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

compulsory prerequisite
- A Survey of International Art History - First Half of the 20th Century

Basic literature

Gombrich, E., Příběh umění, Praha, 1992. (CS)
Foster, H.; Krauss R.; Bois, Y.-A.; Buchloh B. H. D., Umění po roce 1900, Praha 2007 (CS)
Clark, T. J., Farewell to an Idea. Episodes from a History of Modernism. New Haven a London 1999 (CS)
Haas, F., Architektura 20. století. Praha 1978 (CS)
Schapiro, M., Modern Art. 19th&20th Centuries. New York 1968 (CS)
Krauss,R., The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. Cambridge, Mass. 1985 (CS)
Lamač, M., Myšlenky moderních malířů. Praha 1989 (CS)
Halada, J.; Hlavačka, M., Světové výstavy : od Londýna 1851 po Hannover 2000, Praha 2000 (CS)
Masheck, J., Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture, New York 2013 (CS)
Harrison, Ch.; Wood, P. (eds.), Art in theory, 1900-2000: an anthology of changing ideas. Malden 2003 (CS)
Levine, N., Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Princeton 1997 (CS)
Johnson, W., S.: Dějiny fotografie, Praha 2001 (CS)
Fiedler, J.; Ackermann, U., Bauhaus, Kolín n. Rýnem 2006 (CS)

Type of course unit

Lecture

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Ladislav Jackson, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Bauhaus: Dessau (Mies, Breuer, Reich)
2. Avant-garde and ideology II.: Degenerate Art, Speer, Breker, Bauhaus: Berlin
3. World Fairs II.: 1933 Chicago, 1937 Paris, 1939 New York
4. Art of Non-sense: Schwitters, Ernst, Ray
5. Marcel Duchamp
6. Surrealist Manifesto: Breton, Ernst, Dalí; Chagall, Modigliani; Chirico
7. Hollywood forms: Art Deco, Lempicka, visual arts and film industry
8. Architecture and Design: Wright, Loos, Le Corbusier, Mies
9. Latin American Art: Rivera, Kahlo
10. Moder Photography: Day, Käsebier, Coburn, Stieglitz, Moholy-Nagy, Keppler, Hine, Lange, Ray
11. Rise of a modern museum: Barr a MoMA, Guggenheim and speculative iconoclasm
12. End of History: Modern Art and migration