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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Kateřina Adamcová, Ph.D. (25.01.2021)
Vybraná témata českých dějin umění VI Cyklus přednášek v angličtině pro zahraniční studenty, letní semestr 2020/2021 Název kurzu: Selected Topics from the Czech Art History VI / Vybraná témata českých dějin umění VI Čas konání kurzu: každé úterý od 15:50 do 17:25 (učebna č. 415) Garant kurzu: doc. PhDr. Marie Rakušanová, Ph.D. (formální garant pro potřeby vložení do systému) / PhDr. Lenka Šimková (organizace a koordinace kurzu) Charakter kurzu: uměleckohistorické cvičení Způsob ukončení kurzu: zkouška písemnou formou Ohodnocení kredity: 4 kredity Podmínky úspěšného zakončení kurzu: úspěšné složení písemné zkoušky a alespoň 75% účast na kurzu. Studenti na začátku kurzu obdrží kompletní seznam přednášejících a jejich témat včetně krátké charakteristiky každé přednášky a doporučené literatury. Podle tohoto dokumentu si co nejdříve zvolí přednášejícího, u nějž budou chtít zkoušku složit, kontaktují jej a domluví se s ním na konkrétních podmínkách. Písemná práce musí být v rozsahu 6 – 10 normostran včetně poznámkového aparátu a literatury. Zvolenému přednášejícímu pak práci na konci kurzu odevzdají, ten ji ohodnotí a domluví se se studentem na krátkém osobním pohovoru nad prací. Charakteristika kurzu: The course is specifically designed for foreign students coming to Prague to learn more about Czech art and its historical, political and social context. However, the aim of the course is not simply to summarize the most important facts, artists and artworks but rather to introduce the students to a selection of interesting moments in the Czech art history with the help of a range of interdisciplinary approaches and new methodological tools. As for the time period, the course will cover the period from Middle Ages to the twentieth century with a stronger focus on modern art. Kurz je vytvořen speciálně pro potřeby zahraničních studentů, kteří přijeli do Prahy, aby se dozvěděli více o českém umění a jeho historickém, politickém a sociálním kontextu. Přesto však cílem kurzu není jen podání prostého přehledu nejdůležitějších faktů, umělců a jejich děl, ale spíše seznámení studentů s několika vybranými zajímavými momenty české historie umění, a to s pomocí interdisciplinárního přístupu a nových metodologických nástrojů. Časově kurz pokryje období od středověku po dvacáté století s tím, že důraz je kladen na moderní umění. Seznam přednášejících a názvů přednášek (řazeno abecedně): Ing. Mgr. Markéta Čejková • Czech Cubism in Architecture (focused on Prague) (lecture) • Museum of Czech Cubism, entrance fee (excursion) Marie Fiřtová, M.A. • Prague As The “Picturesque 19th Century Town”: Michalovic Miller’s House As The Perfect Example of The 19th Century Burgher Style (excursion) Mgr. Tereza Havelková • Czech Early Modernism (lecture) Mgr. Klára Jarolímková • 1918–1938: First Czechoslovak Republic – excursion to the National Gallery Prague (entrance fee) (excursion) • The Northern Renaissance Paintingsof the Lobkowicz Collections – excursion to the Lobkowicz Palace at Prague Castle (entrance fee) (excursion) PhDr. Iva Knobloch • Functionalism As a Progressive Lifestyle in Pre-war Czechoslovakia (lecture) PhDr. Petra Matějovičová • Jewellery (both historical and contemporary) (lecture) • Jewellery (both historical and contemporary) (workshop) Mgr. Eliška Podholová Varyšová • Post-war architecture in Czechoslovakia 1945-1968: Late Functionalism, Socialist Realism and the Golden Sixties (lecture) PhDr. Lenka Šimková • Fluxus in Prague (lecture) • Czech Land Art – Is There Such a Thing? (lecture) |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Kateřina Adamcová, Ph.D. (25.01.2021)
Selected Topics from the Czech Art History IV
Summer Semester of 2020/2021
Ing. Mgr. Markéta Čejková
Czech Cubism in Architecture (focused on Prague) (lecture)
The lecture will discuss the very specific aspect of cubism developed almost exclusively by the Czech architects. It will cover the background, the development and the most interesting constructions completed within a very short time period between 1911 and 1927. The buildings and constructions discussed are mostly located in Prague but a few out of Prague ones will be mentioned as well. As a bonus cubistic design realised by the Czech cubistic architects will be covered by the lecture as well.
Literature:
Zdeněk Lukes, Ester Havlova: Czech Architectural Cubism, Prague 2006
Museum of Czech Cubism, entrance fee (excursion)
The lecture will be held in the Museum of Czech Cubism focusing on cubistic design (furniture, glass, porcelaine and china, paintings, posters, etc.). As the museum is located in a very famous cubistic house designed by Josef Gočár, the lecture will also cover the architecture and design of the building.
Marie Fiřtová, M.A.
Prague As The “Picturesque 19th Century Town”: Michalovic Miller’s House As The Perfect Example of The 19th Century Burgher Style (excursion)
The excursion will start in the small miller’s house (Vávra’s House or Michalovic Mill), which represents the perfect example of the 19th century burgher style. The positioning of the building doesnot correspond to its surroundings anymore, it is therefore important to get acquainted with the original context of the housing development. We will start our tour inside the house focusing on the unique wall paintings from 1847, made by one of the most important representatives of the Czech Biedermeier era - Josef Navrátil. In the Alpine room, I will try to explain you the principals of the “Zimmerreise”, a popular bourgeois pastimeof the 19th century. There are only few other examples of intact preserved interieur in the burgher houses in Europe, which is mainly caused by the permanent changing of the owners. This lecture should also give you basic knowledge about the artistic scene around the mid-19th century, followed by a short walk around the Prague Old town to mediate the impression of the “picturesque 19th century town”.
Literature:
Petrasová Taťána – Švácha Rostislav (eds.), Art in the Czech Lands 800–2000, Praha: Artefactum – Arbor vitae societas, 2017
Mgr. Tereza Havelková
Czech Early Modernism (lecture)
Lecture will deal with the formation of modern art in the Czech lands during the late 19th and early 20th century. The focus will be on the Czech modern art as part of European international context, in which inspirations and influences have been taken over and reinterpreted. We will examine the role of major exhibitions of artists such as Gustav Rodin or Edvard Munch in Prague and important art movements and styles (impressionism, expressionism, cubism) that resonated in Czech art of that period.
Literature:
Taťána Petrasová – Rostislav Švácha (eds.), Art in the Czech Lands 800–2000, Praha: Artefactum – Arbor vitae societas, 2017
Mgr. Klára Jarolímková
1918–1938: First Czechoslovak Republic – excursion to the National Gallery Prague (entrance fee) (excursion)
The permanent exhibition 1918–1938: First Czechoslovak Republicof the National Gallery Prague was created for the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of founding of Czechoslovakia. The exhibition shows the rich and cosmopolitan art scene in the young independent Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1938. It introduces prominent galleries, art clubs and institutions, as well as the important cultural centres. There is a rich variety of art production as paintings, graphics, sculptures, video projections as well as book illustrations and design. Besides the paintings by prominent Czech, Slovak and Czech-German artists there are also shown the artworks from the important National Gallery’s French collection
Literature:
Bydžovská, Lenka / Srp, Karel: Jindřich Štyrský, Prague 2007
The Northern Renaissance Paintingsof the Lobkowicz Collections – excursion to the Lobkowicz Palace at Prague Castle (entrance fee) (excursion)
One of the most important private fine art collection in Czechia is still in the hands of the family Lobkowicz. Their art collection is rich in paintings, ceramics, guns and also in music scores and instruments. In the Lobkowicz palace we can admire some of very important and beautiful works by prominent painters of the Northern Renaissance as Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Lucas Cranach the Elder. Our excursion will explore their paintings in the international context. We will not miss other old masters such as Canaletto, Velázquez or Jakob Seisenegger which paintings take part of the art collection as well.
Literature:
Honig, Elizabeth Alice: Pieter Bruegel and the idea of human nature, London 2019
PhDr. Iva Knobloch
Functionalism As a Progressive Lifestyle in Pre-war Czechoslovakia (lecture)
Czechoslovakia promoted itself as a new, young, democratic and progressive stat. Especially in 30s, Czechoslovak functionalism found its official status in representatives exhibitions, publications, merchandise export thanks to numerous institutions such as the Krásná jizba (Beautiful CHamber) or the Czechoslovak Werkbund. Krásná jizba was the first modern design studio, founded in 1927, organised on the cooperative base. Under his art director Ladislav Sutnar, it promoted functionalism through objects of everyday use. Cooperative organization was based on sharing financial resources, ethical ideas, visions of democracy and on territorial network covering all regions of Czechoslovakia. Thanks to its unique type of cooperative work, funcionalism expanded all areas of interior and product design. Czechoslovak Werkbund was foundend in 1920 as a non-official organization with the aim to uplift the general audience taste and the quality of life. Thanks to this organization functionalism was promoted in the domestic and public space, such as the new creative disciplines as information design and advertising, exhibition design, culture of commercial showcases, shopping centers and fairs, but also schools, educational objects and furniture . The prime focus of the Czechoslovak Werkbund was architecture and home culture, promoted by construction of Baba siedlung in 1932. Thanks to the Krásná jizba and the Czechoslovak Werkbund Fnctionalism was broadly accepted as the Czechoslovak middle class lifestyle.
Literature:
Lucie Vlčková (ed.), Krásná jizba, Praha 2019.
PhDr. Petra Matějovičová
Jewellery (both historical and contemporary) (lecture)
Gold, diamonds and cameosas bearers of content and expression.
Literature:
whatever focused on the above mentioned topics
Jewellery (both historical and contemporary) (workshop)
/location – The Central Depository of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, address – Červeňanského 19, Prague 13/
Mgr. Eliška Podholová Varyšová
Post-war Architecture in Czechoslovakia 1945-1968: Late Functionalism, Socialist Realism and the Golden Sixties (lecture)
The lecture will be focused on the first post-war 20 years in Czechoslovakian architecture. Short episode of late functionalism took place in 1945-48 after theoretical revision of the interwar style during the war. The natural development of functionalism into the International style parallel to western architectural scene was interrupted by political putsch in 1948. New official style came with communist regime - socialist realism, an ideological import from Soviet Union. Monumental historical forms with statues, reliefs and murals replaced simple geometrical forms of functionalism, architects were forced to work in the new style or quit their practice. In the second half of the 1950s the situation loosened which led to the production of very successful modern pavilion at the Expo 1958 in Brussels. This building brought the essence of International style to Czechoslovakia and started the period of the Golden Sixties where the inspiration of western brutalism and other movements (and also Czechoslovakian modernist tradition) could be reflected by Czech architects. However, this situation ended with Soviet occupation in 1968.
Literature:
PhDr. Lenka Šimková
Fluxus in Prague
One of the pioneers and leading figures of the beginnings of the Czech action art, Milan Knížák, was named “Director Fluxus East“ by George Maciunas. What were the consequences, if any, for the Czech artistic scene of the sixties? Were Czech artists aware of the Fluxus activities and network? What were the reactions to the Fluxus festival in Prague? Did George Matiunas´s dreams about Fluxus flourishing behind the Iron Courtain come true?
Literature:
Fluxus East. Fluxus Networks in Central Eastern Europe (exhibition catalogue). Berlin 2007
Czech Land Art – Is There Such a Thing?
When we hear “land art” the first thing that usually springs to mind is one of the vast pieces which one of the American land-artists created in the desert areas of the US. However, the urge of the sixties and seventies for an intervention into nature or an artistic interaction with it materialized in many much more subtle and modest projects. This applies not only to the already mentioned US but also to Europe and more specifically to the communist Czechoslovakia which will be the focus of our interest. Are the pieces with distinctive natural element usually simply categorised under “action art” in fact a specific form of land art or is it yet a different thing?
Literature:
Morganová, Pavlína. Czech Action Art: Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind The Iron Curtain. Prague 2014 |