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Special Seminar of 19th to 21st Century Art 1 - KDKU335
Title: Výběrový seminář umění 19.-21. století 1
Guaranteed by: Institute of Christian Art History (26-UDKU)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unlimited (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: you can enroll for the course repeatedly
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. Eva Bendová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Eva Bendová, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : KDKU272
Is incompatible with: KDKU272
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Eva Bendová, Ph.D. (26.10.2023)
The seminar is always devoted to one key topic, which can represent the transformation of a broad visual culture within the framework of modernity. The seminar will alternate hours of lectures with hours of practical study of works in the field, excursions, visits to selected places or gallery collections on the topic. The seminar begins with a general introduction, familiarization with key terms and specification of specific works or texts, on the basis of which the students will prepare a paper and a seminar paper.


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

Aim of the course -
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.

Literature -
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

 

 

 

 

Teaching methods -
Last update: PhDr. Eva Bendová, Ph.D. (26.10.2023)

communication, discourse, interpretation with commentary, presentation

Requirements to the exam -
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

 

Syllabus -
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.

Entry requirements -
Last update: PhDr. Eva Bendová, Ph.D. (26.10.2023)

active participation, enrollment in the subject, otherwise as agreed

 

Course completion requirements -
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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