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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Kateřina Adamcová, Ph.D. (14.09.2020)
Selected Topics from the Czech Art History III Vybraná témata českých dějin umění III Cyklus přednášek v angličtině pro Erasmus studenty, zimní semestr 2020/2021 Název kurzu: Selected Topics from the Czech Art History III / Vybraná témata českých dějin umění III Čas konání kurzu: každé úterý od 15:50 do 17:25 (učebna č. 415) Garant kurzu: doc. PhDr. Marie Rakušanová, Ph.D. (formální garant pro potřeby vložení do systému) / PhDr. Lenka Šimková (organizace a koordinace kurzu) Charakter kurzu: uměleckohistorické cvičení Způsob ukončení kurzu: zkouška písemnou formou Ohodnocení kredity: 4 kredity Podmínky úspěšného zakončení kurzu: úspěšné složení písemné zkoušky a alespoň 75% účast na kurzu. Studenti na začátku kurzu obdrží kompletní seznam přednášejících a jejich témat včetně krátké charakteristiky každé přednášky a doporučené literatury. Podle tohoto dokumentu si co nejdříve zvolí přednášejícího, u nějž budou chtít zkoušku složit, kontaktují jej a domluví se s ním na konkrétních podmínkách. Písemná práce musí být v rozsahu 6 – 10 normostran včetně poznámkového aparátu a literatury. Zvolenému přednášejícímu pak práci na konci kurzu odevzdají, ten ji ohodnotí a domluví se se studentem na krátkém osobním pohovoru nad prací. Charakteristika kurzu: The course is specifically designed for foreign students coming to Prague to learn more about Czech art and its historical, political and social context. However, the aim of the course is not simply to summarize the most important facts, artists and artworks but rather to introduce the students to a selection of interesting moments in the Czech art history with the help of a range of interdisciplinary approaches and new methodological tools. As for the time period, the course will cover the period from Middle Ages to the twentieth century with a stronger focus on modern art. Kurz je vytvořen speciálně pro potřeby zahraničních studentů, kteří přijeli do Prahy, aby se dozvěděli více o českém umění a jeho historickém, politickém a sociálním kontextu. Přesto však cílem kurzu není jen podání prostého přehledu nejdůležitějších faktů, umělců a jejich děl, ale spíše seznámení studentů s několika vybranými zajímavými momenty české historie umění, a to s pomocí interdisciplinárního přístupu a nových metodologických nástrojů. Časově kurz pokryje období od středověku po dvacáté století s tím, že důraz je kladen na moderní umění. Seznam přednášejících a názvů přednášek (řazeno abecedně): Ing. Mgr. Markéta Čejková • Villa Müller (excursion - entrance fee, limited number of participants) • Jože Plečnik and Otto Rothmayer (lecture) Marie Fiřtová, M.A. • Fin de Siècle and Czech Art (lecture) Tereza Havelková • Czech Modern Art and Totalitarian Regimes (lecture) Klára Jarolímková • The Renaissance Architecture in Bohemia (excursion to the Nelahozeves Castle) • The Artificialism of Štyrský and Toyen and the Czech avant-garde of the twenties (lecture) PhDr. Iva Knobloch • Modernising Home and Lifestyle Through Cooperative Organization Krásná jizba (Beautiful Chamber) in Pre-war Czechoslovakia (lecture) Mgr. Anežka Mikulcová • Funeral Motifs in the Czech 19th Century Painting (lecture) PhDr. Petra Matějovičová • Jewellery (14th – 18th centuries) - (lecture) • Jewellery (both historical and contemporary) – (lecture) Mgr. Eliška Podholová Varyšová • Excursion: Baba Housing Estate in Prague: Exhibition of modern living of Czechoslovak Werkbund (excursion) PhDr. Lenka Šimková • The Beginnings of Czech Action Art – Where Had It Come from? (lecture) • Czech Action Art of the Sixties and Seventies (lecture) |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Kateřina Adamcová, Ph.D. (14.09.2020)
Selected Topics from the Czech Art History III
Winter Semester of 2020/2021
Ing. Mgr. Markéta Čejková
Villa Müller (excursion - entrance fee, limited number of participants)
The lecture will be held in Villa Müller, designed by Adolf Loos and being an excellent example of modernist architecture. The tour will be focused on the architecture and Raumplan, original design concept developed by Adolf Loos and will also cover the history of the villa and the family as well as the furniture, fittings and art inside the villa.
Literature:
Jože Plečnik and Otto Rothmayer (lecture)
The lecture will discuss Plečnik ouevre completed in Prague focusing on Prague Castle Reconstruction and the church of Nejsvětější Srdce Páně built in Prague – Vinohrady and a few other minor constructions. Furthermore, the lecture will cover the cooperation of Jože Plečnik and his student, architect Otto Rothmayer as well as buildings and other projects designed by Otto Rothmayer. A part of the lecture will introduce Božena Rothmayerová, wife of Otto, who was a talented textile designer.
Literature:
Marie Fiřtová, M.A.
Fin de Siècle and Czech Art (lecture)
The end of the 19th century, known as the fin de siècle, is characterized by blending of different artistic styles and movements. Another typical sign of this period was individualism and the originality of art expression. Czech artists, who often gained their education in Munich, Paris or both, also learned how to work with light, which was evident in their paintings as well as drawings. In contrast to contrived historical figural scenes which played the main role in the past years, modern artists found their inspiration in the city life with its busy roads, coffee bars, restaurants, and nostalgic narrow Prague streets. Some of them could not bear the reality of the present, and so they lived their dreams and fairy-tales via symbolist artworks and became an important part of the Czech secession movement. The aim of this lecture is to show the diversity of the Czech art at the end of the 19thcentury with all its leading figures.
Literature:
Tereza Havelková
Czech modern art and totalitarian regimes (lecture)
Politics played an important role in modern Czech (or precisely Czechoslovak) art. From the 1930s to late 1980s there were two totalitarian regimes which set bounderies to art and often suppressed any free spirit in the public art scene. This lecture will deal with the art of late 1930s to early 1950s hen the situation was particularly difficult. It will cover different approaches of artists, their resistance, expressions of their fear and aversion and different ways to fight for freedom which some artists elaborated. We will also consider the problematic relationship between artists and ideology which not always had the character of rejection.
Literature:
Taťána Petrasová – Rostislav Švácha (eds.), Art in the Czech Lands 800–2000, Praha: Artefactum – Arbor vitae societas, 2017
Klára Jarolímková
The Renaissance Architecture in Bohemia (excursion to the Nelahozeves Castle)
The Nelahozeves Castle, one of the great preserved renaissance castles in Bohemia, was built between 1552 and 1612. Our excursion will explore the Czech renaissance architecture in relation to its Italian and French models by Andrea Palladio and Sebastiano Serlio. Indeed, the Nelahozeves Castle as well as Kaceřov Castle, which is one of the first renaissance castles in Bohemia, were both inspired by the north Italian architecture. These two were properties of Florian Griespek von Griespach. They are connected with the name of Bonifac Wohlmut, the royal architect in Prague with Italian origins and the builder of the famous Queen Anne's Summer Palace and the Star Summer Palace in Prague. Nelahozeves Castle houses today the art collection of the family Lobkowicz, who is the owner of this castle since 1623.
Literature:
The Artificialism of Štyrský and Toyen and the Czech avant-garde of the twenties (lecture)
The Artificialism was a unique and original movement created by two Czech artists: Jindřich Štyrský and Toyen. They founded their own artistic style in Paris during their stay in 1925. Influenced by the contemporary avant-gardes, they defined their style in the opposition to French surrealism and cubism. They were friends with many poets from the Czech artistic group Devětsil. In their manifest of Artificialism they identified a painter with a poet. What is the artificialist painting? How was the artificialist work influenced by reality, dreams, memories, unconscious, poetry and exoticism? We will explore the relation between Czech avant-garde and artificialist painters in twenties.
Literature:
PhDr. Iva Knobloch
Modernising Home and Lifestyle Through Cooperative Organization Krásná jizba (Beautiful Chamber) in Pre-war Czechoslovakia (lecture)
Krásná jizba was the first modern design studio, founded in 1927, organised on the cooperative base. Under his art director Ladislav Sutnar, it promoted functionalism through objects of everyday use. Cooperative organization was based on sharing financial resources, ethical ideas, visions of democracy and on territorial network covering all regions of Czechoslovakia. Thanks to this unique type of cooperative work, funcionalism was broadly accepted as a lifestyle of middle classes.
Literature:
Mgr. Anežka Mikulcová
Funeral Motifs in the Czech 19th Century Painting (lecture)
The goal of this lecture is to offer an overview of funeral motifs that appear in the Czech painting during the 19th century. Under the term “funeral motifs”, we will understand especially the depiction of grave, tombstone and graveyard. Artists integrated these motifs into their pieces of art for different purposes; it was connected with the interest of Romanticism in aesthetic anomalies and mystery, with their personal experience and feelings, etc. We will mostly talk about landscape painting, but we will also discuss some genre scenes that were situated to cemeteries. Artists worked with funeral motifs in different ways and these will be presented in several case studies. Some painters were fascinated by these subjects and they turned their attention to them systematically and repeatedly throughout their career. Other artists worked with funeral motifs rarely, although significantly. The pieces of art will be presented in the context of the burial rites and literature of the 19th century. This phenomenon was also reflected by foreign artists, some of them will be also mentioned in the thesis as an analogy to the Czech works.
Literature:
PhDr. Petra Matějovičová
Jewellery (14th – 18th centuries) (lecture)
Roles played by jewellery in painting, manuscript illumination, emblems etc.
Jewellery (both historical and contemporary) – (lecture)
Historiated jewellery (figures and scenes represented in jewellery)
Literature (I + II):
almost anything - one text which discusses jewellery (even a very short one) orany compendium dedicated to the history of jewellery in general / to jewellery in one particular period / to one type of jewellery or one catalogue of a pertinent collection (Waddesdon Bequest to the British Museum; Thyssen-Bornemisza Coll., Lugano etc.)
Research for the following authors:
suggestions:
Mgr. Eliška Podholová Varyšová
Excursion: Baba Housing Estate in Prague: Exhibition of modern living of Czechoslovak Werkbund (lecture)
Literature:
PhDr. Lenka Šimková
The Beginnings of Czech Action Art – Where Had It Come from? (lecture)
Where are the roots of Czech action art? Is this art form merely an imitation of the western art of the time or does it have its own unique pre-history and logical development within the Czech modern art? And who are the forerunners? The lecture will answer all these questions and present various examples of what preceded the breathtaking flourishing of visual arts as well as all kinds of other cultural and socio-political elements in Czechoslovakia of the sixties.
Literature:
Czech Action Art of the Sixties and Seventies (lecture)
The lecture will focus on the Czech action art and related ephemeral artistic forms of expression such as performance, happening or land art that are usually embraced by the term “action art” in the Czech art history. Although there was almost no information about similar artistic forms of western art in Czechoslovakia until approximately mid sixties, an extraordinary development took place in the years to follow and Czech action art through its own means evolved into a unique phenomenon simultaneous and comparable to what was happening behind the Iron Curtain.
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