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Synoptic History of Art of 19th and 20th Centuries 1 - KDKU035
Title: Přehledné dějiny umění 19. a 20. století 1
Guaranteed by: Institute of Christian Art History (26-UDKU)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C [HT]
Extent per academic year: 28 [hours]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: PhDr. Milan Pech, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Milan Pech, Ph.D.
Is co-requisite for: KDKU036, KDKU358, KDKU037
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Milan Pech, Ph.D. (09.01.2023)
The course is dedicated to European and Czech art of the 19th century. It characterizes the historical and ideological sources of European classicism, romanticism and historicizing currents in art of the 19th century.
Century. It also traces the birth of modern art in the work of the Realists, Impressionists, Symbolists and Secessionists. In addition, it outlines the various artistic movements within "Czech" art history from the late 18th century to around 1900.Consultations in English available.
Aim of the course -
Last update: PhDr. Milan Pech, Ph.D. (28.09.2022)

The aim of the course is to introduce students to European and Czech art of the 19th century. 

Literature -
Last update: PhDr. Milan Pech, Ph.D. (19.10.2022)

Primary literature:

Benevolo L., Geschichte der Architektur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, I-II. München 1964.
Blau E. - Platzer M. (eds.), Shaping the Great City. Modern Architecture in Central Europe 1890-1937. Munich.London - New York 1999.

Brettell, R. R., Modern art, 1851-1929 :capitalism and representation. Oxford 1999.

Dolanská, K. et al., Modern and Contemporary Czech Art 1890-2010, Prague: National Gallery 2010.

Hartley, K., The Romantic Spirit in German Art 1790-1990. Edinburgh 1994.

Hitchcock, H.-R., Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Harmondsworth 1958.

Knížák, M. - Vlček, T. (eds.), 155 uměleckých děl 20. století z Národní galerie v Praze = One hundred fifty-five artworks of the 20th century from the National Gallery in Prague = 155 œvres d’art du 20ème siècle de la Galerie nationale de Prague = 155 Kunstwerke des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Nationalgalerie in Prag = 155 opere d’arte del XX secolo della Galleria Nazionale di Praga, Praha : Národní galerie 2009.

Musilová, H. (ed.)m František Kupka: the road to Amorpha: Kupka’s salons 1899-1913 : [The National Gallery in Prague - The Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Salm Palace, November 30, 2012 - March 3, 2013], Prague. National Gallery 2012. 

Rosenblum, R., Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko. New York 1975.

Schapiro, M., Modern Art. 19th&20th Centuries. New York 1968.
Malinowski Jerzy (Hrsg.), History of Art History in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, 2 Bde., Toruń 2012.

Recommended literature:

Anděl, J., Příběh moderního média : česká fotografie 1840-1950 = [A story of a modern medium : Czech photography 1840-1950] : Galerie Rudolfinum 15.1-28.3.2004], Praha: KANT [2004].

Beran, L. - Valchářová, V. (eds.), Industrial Prague: technical buildings and industrial architecture in Prague: a guide, Prague: Czech Technical University 2006.

Born, R. - Janatková, A. - Labuda, A. (Hrsg.), Die Kunsthistoriographien in Ostmitteleuropa und der nationale Diskurs, Berlin 2004.Zeitler, R., Die Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts. Propyläen Kunstgeschichte Bd. XI. Berlin 1984.

Matějček, A. - Wirth, Z., Modern and contemporary Czech art, London : George Routtledge & Sons 1924.

Morris, C. M. - Foulds, D. E. (eds.), A guide to Czech and Slovak glass, Prague: European Community Imports [1993].

Srp, K. - Bydžovská, L.  (eds.), New formations: Czech avant-garde art and modern glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection, Houston [Tex.]: Museum of Fine Arts; New Haven: Yale University Press [distributor] 2011.

Langhamer, A., Legenda o českém skle = The legend of Bohemian glass = Legende vom böhmischen Glas, Zlín : Tigris 1999.

Pařík, A., Symbols of emancipation: nineteenth-century synagogues in the Czech lands : [exhibition of the Jewish Museum in Prague 21.3.-4.8.2013, Robert Guttmann Gallery Prague, Prague: Jewish Museum in Prague 2013.

Primus, Z., Kunst ist Abstraction : die tschechische visuelle Kultur der 60er Jahre, Praha : KANT : Arbor vitae 2003.

Stanislawski, R. - Brockhaus, Ch., Europa, Europa: Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa. Bonn 1994.
Szeemann, H., Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk. Europäische Utopien seit 1800. Frankfurt am Main 1983.

Seibt, F. (ed.), Böhmen im 19. Jahrhundert. Vom Klassizismus zur Moderne. Frankfurt a. M., Berlin 1995.

Švácha, R. (ed.), Naprej! : Czech sports architecture 1567-2012, Prague : Prostor - architektura, interiér, design 2012.

 

Libraries

http://www.udu.cas.cz/en/library/ - Library of the Institute of Art History at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

http://udu2.ff.cuni.cz/?q=node/18 - Library of Instute of Arth History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague

http://www.ngprague.cz/knihovna-1 - Library of the National Gallery in Prague

https://www.umprum.cz/web/en/library - Library of Academy of Arts, Architecture and Desing in Prague

http://www.avu.cz/eng/library - Library of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

http://www.techlib.cz/en/ - National Library of Technology

http://www.en.nkp.cz/ - National Library of the Czech Republic

https://www.knihovna.upm.cz/en/ - Library of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague

 

Websites

https://artlib.eu/#!/ -  Czech Art Libraries Database

http://www.artlist.cz/en/  -  Database charting the development of contemporary Czech art

http://www.artmap.cz/en  -  Platform to support and promote contemporary art in the Czech Republic

http://vvp.avu.cz/en/idatum/search

http://artycok.tv/lang/en-us/

http://www.monumenttotransformation.org/atlas-transformace/

http://cz.tranzit.org/en/about

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: PhDr. Milan Pech, Ph.D. (09.01.2023)

Knowledge of the basic canon of 19th-century art with respect to the material covered by the course during the winter semester. 

Syllabus -
Last update: PhDr. Milan Pech, Ph.D. (08.12.2019)

Europe and the world

1. Painting, sculpture and graphic art of the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century (Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Biedermeier, Photography, ...)

2. Painting, sculpture and graphics of the second half of the 19th century (Realism, salon painting, Impressionism, Symbolism, Neo-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau, ...)

3. 19th-century architecture

 

Czech lands

4. Painting 1790 - 1840

5. Painting 1840 - 1860

6. Painting 1860 - 1890

7. Painting of the 1890s

8. 19th-century sculpture

9. 19th-century architecture

Course completion requirements
Last update: PhDr. Milan Pech, Ph.D. (15.02.2023)

In the fall term, there will be a written test based on pictures, which will be selected concerning the lectures, and it will take into account the art collection of the National Gallery in Prague. There will be 25 pictures (projected on a screen). The aim is to identify the author, title, date, and style/-ism of a projected artwork. 

 
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