Course detail
20th Century Art History overview 1
FaVU-1DU20-1Acad. year: 2023/2024
The course introduces students to an overview of basic thought concepts, programs, the exchange of artistic forms and the political, social and economic conditions of artistic creation in the first half of the 20th century. The course covers all art forms: painting, sculpture, design, architecture, photography, assemblage and typography. The lectures also deal critically with the role of institutions, such as academies, art organizations, museums and galleries or art criticism, in the formation of art scenes. The interpretation also contains a critical view of social, national and racial policies and a view through the prism of postcolonialism and feminism. Through the course, students should acquire critical thinking and a basic conceptual apparatus for describing and conceptualizing 20th century art programs.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Written exam. For passing the course there are the following conditions:
- active participation (80% attendance)
- 50% correct answers in an exam test
Teaching takes place in the classrooms of the FFA BUT in the hours determined by the schedule. Attendance is compulsory (2 unexcused absences allowed). Higher number of absences can be compensated by submitting an alternative assignment after agreement with the teachers.
Aims
The aim of the course is to introduce important personalities, works, artistic groups, programs and institutions of art in Europe and North and South America from 1900-1945, present contemporary thinking about modern art and characterize key contemporary and contemporary texts. The male and female students will be able to characterize basic development tendencies, key historical events, and the work of canonical female and male artists.
Completion of the course should help students strengthen the ability of analytical thinking, conduct interdisciplinary dialogue and articulate a critical view of the canon of art history and its practice in the present.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
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)
Wittlich, P., Umění nové doby: Doba secese, Praha 1987 (CS)
Fiedler, J.; Ackermann, U., Bauhaus, Kolín n. Rýnem 2006 (CS)
Harrison, Ch.; Wood, P. (eds.), Art in theory, 1900-2000: An anthology of changing ideas. Malden 2003 (CS)
Recommended reading
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Lecture
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Syllabus
- Art Nouveau (Munich, Berlin, Vienna)
- Expressionism
- Cubism
- Futurism
- The beginnings of abstraction
- Suprematism and constructivism
- Bauhaus
- The art of totalitarian regimes
- Modern Art in the United States
- Modern art of Latin America
- Modern artist
- Modern art of ethnic minorities
- Modern photography