Course detail

Feminist and Queer Context of Czech Art History

FaVU-2FQCCAAcad. year: 2023/2024

The course introduces two related aspects of critical thinking in Czech Art History. The first part presents the first, the second, the third and the fourth wave of feminism and theis relations to art history. Artists such as Milada Marešová, Běla Kolářová, Veronika Bromová, Erika Bornová will be discussed as well as female historians and critics such as Renata Tyršová, Věra Jirousová, Martina Pachmanová and the Fourth Wave movement. The second part of the course introduces queer approaches to Czech art history with the analysis of art works of Jan Zrzavý, Toyen, Libuše Jarcovjáková, Jana Štěpánová, Mark Ther, collectors like Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, Alberto di Stefano and writings by William Ritter, Václav Jamek, Martin C. Putna and others. The lectures will emphasize intersectionality of socially constructed identity politics.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Ladislav Jackson, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Entry knowledge

B2 level English.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Students will be assigned to present a paper (15 minutes) on a chosen topic at the end of the semester and they will submit its writen version (5 norm pages at least).

Aims

The aim of the course is to learn about main tendencies and contradictions of feminist thinking and queer studies in art (history).
Students will have a basic overview of the history and present of gender studies in artistic theory and historiography, they will be able to characterize key figures and the changes of concepts in feminist and queer studies in art history in Czech and world context.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

PACHMANOVÁ, Martina. Neznámá území českého moderního umění: pod lupou genderu. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2004. 287 s. ISBN 80-7203-613-0. (CS)
HECZKOVÁ, Libuše, ed., PACHMANOVÁ, Martina, ed. a ŠÁMAL, Petr, ed. Jak odlesk měsíce v jezeře: česká teorie a kritika umění v genderových souvislostech, 1865-1945. Překlad Eva Bendová a Martina Kadaníková. Vydání první. V Řevnicích: Arbor vitae, 2014. 327 stran. ISBN 978-80-7467-075-6. (CS)
PACHMANOVÁ, Martina. Zrození umělkyně z pěny limonády: genderové kontexty české moderní teorie a kritiky umění. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze, ©2013. 163 s. ISBN 978-80-86863-64-1. (CS)
PUTNA, Martin C. a kol. Homosexualita v dějinách české kultury. Vyd. 2. Praha: Academia, 2013. 494 s., [24] s. obr. příl. Historie. ISBN 978-80-200-2293-6. (CS)
DAVIS, Whitney. Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History (Research on Homosexuality). New York: Routledge, 1994. ISBN-13: 978-1560230540 (EN)
DAVIS, Whitney. Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0231146906 (EN)
HALBERSTAM, Jack. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2011. ISBN-13: 978-0822350453 (EN)
CHADWICK, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2012 (Fifth Ediotion). ISBN-13: 978-0500204054 (EN)
NOCHLIN, Linda. Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. ISBN-13: 978-0064301831 (EN)
POLLOCK, Griselda. Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art. New York: Routledge, 1988. ISBN-13: 978-0415007221 (EN)

Type of course unit

Lecture

13 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Ladislav Jackson, Ph.D.

Seminar

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Ladislav Jackson, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Intro: Social construction of gender and sexuality
2. Room of One's Own: From Virginia Woolf to Lindu Nochlin
3. Beginnings of Feminist Critricism: Renata Tyršová, Tereza Nováková; Female Agnostics: Věra Jirousová, Věra Linhartová, Hana Volavková, Milena Lamarová
4. Martina Pachmanová, Mirek Vodrážka, Jana Oravcová, Zuzana Štefková
5. "Artistic" Work of Women: 1900–1938; From Emila Medková to Magdalena Jetelová
6. Veronika Bromová, Lenka Klodová, Erika Bornová, Vendula Chalánková, Kateřina Olivová
7. Road Towards Queer Theory of Art: From Activism to Academia (John A. Symonds, Edward Carpenter, William Ritter, Harry Hay, 1992 Mapplethorp's show, Whitney Davis)
8. Variations and Intersextionality in Queer Theory of Art; Václav Jamek, Věra Sokolová, Martin C. Putna
9. Jan Zrzavý, Toyen, Jiří Karásek's Collection, Generation of Hlas Magazine, Libuše Jarcovjáková and Marginal Art
10. Mark Ther, Jan Miko, Jana Štěpánová, Alberto di Stefano's Collection
11. Assignment Presentations
12. Assignment Presentations