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Bohemian (Contemporary) Art in Global Philosophical Context - YBAJ165

Title:	Bohemian (Contemporary) Art in Global Philosophical Context
Guaranteed by:	Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
Faculty:	Faculty of Humanities
Actual:	from 2023
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	3
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:0/2, MC [HT]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (30)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	not taught
Language:	English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	Mgr. Ondřej Váša, Ph.D.
Class:	Courses available to incoming students

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Annotation -

Last update: Mgr. Ondřej Váša, Ph.D. (31.01.2022)

The course will confront contemporary art with selected philosophical texts and essays, following a question that has haunted the avant-garde movement ever since it started. If art is supposed to negate all the restraints and norms that the world imposes on it, does not a murder - as a radical action - represent an ultimate temptation of avant-garde art (as thematized by Lars von Trier in The House that Jack Built, 2018)? Naturally, such a conclusion would be wholly absurd. However, it provokes a series of questions of prime importance for contemporary art: issues of limits of art, its relation to politics, public space, life, etc. As for the topics, we will discuss the relationship between art and politics, art and freedom, art and its critical potential, limits of art, paradoxes of the avant-garde movement, alienation of the contemporary world, etc. We will also read the excerpts from authors like Adorno, Chalupecký, Rancière or Danto.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. Ondřej Váša, Ph.D. (02.02.2021)

75% attendance, participation in discussions, final collective essay (the students will be divided into two groups. Each one will write an essay defending/attacking a concept that will be specified in the course of the semester)

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Ondřej Váša, Ph.D. (08.02.2023)

14.2. Introduction: Art & Propaganda I. (Hannah Arendt)
21.2. History of Violence (Walter Benjamin)
28.2. Art & Revolt, Cartesian Doubts & The Temptaion of Ruins I.
7.3. Art & Revolt, Cartesian Doubts & The Temptaion of Ruins II.
14.3. Art & Propaganda II., field trip: Karel Otto Hrubý (GHMP) (7. 3. 2023 – 21. 5. 2023)
21.3: Field trip: The Melancholy of Cézanne (National Gallery, Prague)
28.3: Field trip: The Avant-Garde and Violence (National Gallery, Prague)
4.4. Field trip: Margita Titlová: Purpurová vertikála (GHMP) (15. 2. 2023 – 14. 5. 2023)
11.4. Field trip: Eva Koťátková: My Body Is Not an Island (NG Prague) (7/12 2022—4/62023)
18.4. Field trip: Markéta Magidová: Moje sladká nejedlá planeta (Kunsthalle)
25.4. Field trip: Center for Contemporary Arts Prague
2.5. Field trip: Trafo Gallery Prague
9.5. Forensic Aesthetics, Speculative Aestheticcs and Violence
16.5. Concluding field trip: Art in Public Places (Holešovice, Prague)

Learning resources

Last update: Mgr. Ondřej Váša, Ph.D. (31.01.2022)

LITERATURE WE WILL BE WORKING WITH (SELECTION):

T. Adorno: Aethetic Theory (excerpts)
G. Bataille: Beauty (excerpt from Erotism)
J. Baudrillard: Symbolic Exchange and Death (excerpts)
A. Camus: The Rebel. An Essay on Man in Revolt (excerpts)
A. C. Danto: The Transfiguration of the Commonplace A Philosophy of Art (excerpts)
V. Chalupecký: The World We Live In
V. Chalupecký: The Meaning Of Art
F. T. Marinetti: Let's murder the moonlight!
K. Teige: Poetism manifesto
J. Ranciere: Aesthetics and Its Discontents (excerpts)