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Last update: PhDr. Eva Bendová, Ph.D. (26.10.2023)
The theme for 2023/2024 is Memento mori – a reflection of death in contemporary art and architecture Memento mori is an established expression about the transience of man. Transience is an important subject of medieval and baroque art. But what is the perception of death in modern and contemporary art? Today's mainstream society, built on strategies of performance, productivity or advertising, displaces questions of death. However, artists, architects or even stars of popular culture do not avoid them. Cemeteries, tombs, funeral halls are part of urban units and modern cities. Tombstones take on peculiar forms of self-presentation and are related to the change in the perception of the sociology of death. In popular culture, the sight of a dead body has ceased to thrill the viewer's senses, as it still did in the 19th century. Questions of disappearance, departure, vanitas are part of contemporary artistic expression. As part of the two-semester seminar, we will examine the theme of transience and death in modern and contemporary art and architecture from various theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. In the winter semester, we will focus on early modern perspectives and the period of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the summer semester, we will follow the period from the Second World War to the present |
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Last update: PhDr. Eva Bendová, Ph.D. (26.10.2023)
The seminar aims to extend and deepen the lecture of modern visual culture of the 19th and 20th century. |
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Last update: PhDr. Eva Bendová, Ph.D. (26.10.2023)
Obecná literatura Philippe Ariès, Dějiny smrti, Praha: Argo 2020, 2. díly Michel Foucault, Dějiny šílenství, Praha: NLN 1994 James Stevens Curl, A celebration of death: an introduction to some of the buildings, monuments, and settings of funerary architecture in the Western European tradition. London: Constable 1980. Ken Worpole, Last Landscape. The Architecture of Cemetry in the West, London 2003 Hannah Malone, Architecture, Death and Nationhood: Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth Century Italy, New York: Routledge 2017 Klaus Wolbert. Memento mori: der Tod als Thema der Kunst vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Darmstadt: Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt 1984. Carla Gottlieb, "Modern Art and Death," The Meaning of Death, New York 1959 Hans Belting, Faces: eine Geschichte des Gesichts, München: C.H. Bec 2013 Michael Hertl, Totenmasken: was von Leben und Sterben bleibt. Stuttgart: Thorbecke, 2002
Always at a specific seminar on the discussed topics and individual works.
Roman Prahl (ed.), Umění náhrobku v českých zemích let 1780-1830, Praha: Academia 2004 Jindřich Vybíral, Století dědiců a zakladatelů: architektura jižních Čech v období historismu, Praha: Argo 1999 Markéta Svobodová, Krematorium v procesu sekularizace českých zemí 20. století: Ideové, stavební a typologické proměny, Praha: - Vanda Skálová, Sepulkrální architektura, in: Vladimír Šlapeta (ed.), Jan Kotěra 1871–1923. Zakladatel moderní české architektury, Praha 2001, s. 303–305. Jakub Synecký, Pojetí náhrobku v díle Jana Kotěry a jeho ohlasy u Bohuslava Fuchse a Josefa Gočára, in: Historie – otázky – problémy 1/2019, s. 190-212. Jiří Roháček – Karel Müller-Jan Chlíbec-Jiří Slavík, Sepulkrální památky v praxi památkové péče, Metodiky, Památková péče, NPÚ, ÚOP v Josefově 2020 Ondřej Juračka. Výzkum navrhování hřbitovních areálů v kontextu společenských proměn v 21. století na území České republiky, Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská – Technická univerzita Ostrava 2020 Jan Kovář a kol, Hřbitov jako veřejný prostor, Praha 2014. Zdeněk Wirth, Pražské hřbitovy. I, Olšany. Umělecké památky; sv. 16.. Praha: Topič, 1923 Otto M. Urban, V barvách chorobných: idea dekadence a umění v českých zemích 1880-1914, Praha: Obecní dům 2006 Otto M. Urban (ed.) Život je bolestný a přináší zklamání: Massakr vol. 1: Lovecraft. Plzeň: Galerie města Plzně 2016 Otto M. Urban (ed.) Vanitas: vanitas v současném českém umění. Praha: Centrum současného umění DOX 2021 Mary O'Neill, Speaking to the dead: Images of the dead in contemporary art, Health, Vol. 15, No. 3, s. 299-312 Curtis Carter, Eros and Thanatos: Images of Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Marquette University, 1990, onlinepress Václav Hájek, Jak rozpoznat odpadkový koš. Eseje o stereotypech ve vizuální kultuře, Praha: Labyrint 2011
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Last update: PhDr. Eva Bendová, Ph.D. (26.10.2023)
communication, discourse, interpretation with commentary, presentation |
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Last update: PhDr. Eva Bendová, Ph.D. (26.10.2023)
1) active participation
2) only two excused hours
3) report on an agreed topic with a visual presentation
4) seminar work
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Last update: PhDr. Eva Bendová, Ph.D. (26.10.2023)
In the winter semester, the student chooses the topic of the written work in agreement with the teacher and prepares its project, incl. bibliography.
Suggested topics to be discussed:
Dead body, dead face in art
Death masks or skulls?
Strategies for Displacing Death in Contemporary Advertising
The Sociology of Death - Contemporary Burial Culture
"Memento mori" paintings of popular music and new media
Tombstones, grave sculpture
Noble Empire, Classicist, Neo-Gothic tombs
Tombstone architecture (tombs of Jan Kotěra etc.)
Architecture of crematoria (Turnov, Pardubice, Nymburk etc.)
Cemetery and contemporary architecture (Carlo Scarpa, Aldo Rossi etc.)
Contemporary cemeteries as urban units
A cemetery as a park or a zone of desolation
Sepulchral monuments in the current practice of monument care
Death in the Art of Symbolism (Arnold Böcklin, Gabriel Max, Munch etc.)
Death in contemporary art
Exposure to "death"
The seminar will include excursions - Olšanské hřbitovy, Vyšehradský Slavín, Prague crematoria, etc. |
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Last update: PhDr. Eva Bendová, Ph.D. (26.10.2023)
active participation, enrollment in the subject, otherwise as agreed
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Last update: PhDr. Eva Bendová, Ph.D. (26.10.2023)
The student chooses a topic based on the offer of works and texts in the introductory syllabus of the first hour of the semester and presents it in the form of a report and a brief written work including a bibliography Completion of the subject is a credit, completion of the credit equals 1) active participation
2) only two excused hours
3) report on an agreed topic with a visual presentation
4) seminar work
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