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Museums and Galleries in the USA 1 - KDKU327
Title: Muzea a galerie v USA 1
Guaranteed by: Institute of Christian Art History (26-UDKU)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C [HT]
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. Markéta Jarošová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Markéta Jarošová, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Markéta Jarošová, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the origin and development of museum and gallery institutions in the USA in a sociocultural context. The formation and growth of American collections are based on European patterns, and from this perspective, American collections will be examined. It will be reminded how American collectors acquired European masterpieces in their collections, what ties they had to the European art market, what contacts they maintained with art dealers during the period. The course is structured on the basis of chronology, typology, and meaning of selected museum and gallery institutions. The architectural form of museum and gallery objects, the character of the collection, and its development will be analyzed, as well as personalities associated with it will be discussed.
Aim of the course -
Last update: PhDr. Markéta Jarošová, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

The aim of the course is to get to know students with the origin and development of museum and gallery institutions in the United States, taking into account the museological context in Europe.

Literature -
Last update: PhDr. Markéta Jarošová, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
Basic:
  • ALEXANDER/RUESCHEMEYER 2005 — Victoria D. ALEXANDER / Marilyn RUESCHEMEYER, (eds.): Art and the state. The visual arts in comparative perspective. New York 2005
  • COLEMAN 1939 — Laurence Vail COLEMAN: The museum in America. 3. sv. Washington 1939
  • CONN 1998 — Steven CONN: Museums and American intellectual life, 1876–1926. Chicago 1998
  • COOLIDGE 1989 — John COOLIDGE: Patrons and architects. Designing art museums in the 20th Century. (=Anne Burnett Tandy lectures in American civilization, 2). Amon Carter Museum 1989
  • PACH 1948 — Walter PACH: The art museum in America. Wakefield, Murray 1948

Recommended: 

  • RAGSDALE 2009 — J. Donald RAGSDALE: American museums and the persuasive impulse. Architectural form and space as social influence. Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge 2009
  • SPAETH 1975 — Eloise SPAETH: American art museums. An Introduction to Looking. New York 1975 3
  • STEFFENSEN-BRUCE 1998 — Ingrid A. STEFFENSEN-BRUCE. Marble palaces, temples of art. Art museums, architecture, and American culture, 1890–1930. Lewisburg 1998
  • TILDEN/ROCHELEAU 2004 — Scott J. TILDEN / Paul ROCHELEAU (eds.): Architecture for art. American art museums, 1938–2008. New York 2004
  • TRASK 2012 — Jeffrey TRASK: Things American. Art museums and civic culture in the Progressive Era. Philadelphia 2012
Teaching methods -
Last update: PhDr. Markéta Jarošová, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
Lecture supplemented by a PowerPoint presentation, online lectures, Teams, Moodle. 
Syllabus -
Last update: PhDr. Markéta Jarošová, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
  1. Art collection of banker John Pierpont Morgan in New York
  2. Private Fenway Court Museum in Boston by collector Isabella Stewart Gardner
  3. Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University and Paul Sachs Museum Course
  4. Art collection by industrialist Henry Clay Frick in New York
  5. George Gray Barnard's collection of medieval art and the creation of The Cloisters in New York
  6. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
  7. The Jewish Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, and Ronald Lauder's Neue Gallerie on Fifth Avenue in New York City
  8. The National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
  9. European Art on the Pacific Coast - San Francisco Museum of Art and San Diego Museum of Art
  10. Published by William Randolph Hearst and his California residence in San Simenon
  11. Collection of railroad magnate Henry Huntington and his wife Arabella in San Marino and collection of industrialist Norton Simon in Pasadena
  12. The collections of the industrialist Jean Paul Getty in Los Angeles
Entry requirements -
Last update: PhDr. Markéta Jarošová, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

Good knowledge of English is assumed.

Course completion requirements - Czech
Last update: PhDr. Markéta Jarošová, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
Účast na přednáškách. Předmět je zakončen ústní zkouškou. Otázky vycházejí z odpřednášené látky. 
 
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