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Selected Topics from the Czech Art History V<br>
Vybraná témata českých dějin umění V<br> Cyklus přednášek v angličtině pro zahraniční studenty, zimní semestr 2021/2022<br> <br> <br> <br> Název kurzu: Selected Topics from the Czech Art History V / Vybraná témata českých dějin umění V<br> Čas konání kurzu: každé úterý od 15:50 do 17:25 (učebna č. 415)<br> Garant kurzu: PhDr. Lenka Šimková <br> Charakter kurzu: uměleckohistorické cvičení<br> Způsob ukončení kurzu: zkouška písemnou formou <br> Ohodnocení kredity: 4 kredity<br> Podmínky úspěšného zakončení kurzu: úspěšné složení písemné zkoušky a alespoň 75% účast na kurzu. <br> 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. <br> 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 the ninetieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century.<br> 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 devatenáctého po začátek jednadvacátého století.<br> Seznam přednášejících a názvů přednášek (řazeno abecedně):<br> Mgr. Viktória Beličáková<br> • Gender and Sexuality during Socialism (lecture)<br> • Gender and Sexuality in the 90s and 00s (lecture)<br> Ing. Mgr. Markéta Čejková <br> • Markéta Čejková: Czech Modernism in Architecture (focused on Prague) (lecture)<br> • Villa Müller (excursion – entrance fee) <br> Mgr. Lucie Daňková<br> • Romantic Landscape Architecture of the Czech Lands<br> • The Phenomenon of Japonisme in Czech Art<br> Mgr. Tereza Havelková<br> • The Surrealism and Socialist realism in Czech context (lecture)<br> • Mythology in Czech Modern Painting (lecture)<br> Mgr. Klára Jarolímková<br> • The Artificialism of Štyrský and Toyen and the Czech avant-garde of Twenties (lecture)<br> • The Northern Renaissance Paintings of the Lobkowicz Collections (excursion – entrance fee)<br> PhDr. Lenka Šimková<br> • Art at Play: The Element of Playfulness in Czech Modern Art (lecture)<br> • Czech Action Art through the Eyes of Photography (lecture)<br> Selected Topics from the Czech Art History V List of Lectures – Winter Semester 2021/2022 5.10. Lenka Šimková: Art at Play: The Element of Playfulness in Czech Modern Art (lecture) 12.10. Tereza Havelková: Mythology in Czech Modern Painting (lecture) 19.10. Klára Jarolímková: The Artificialism of Štyrský and Toyen and the Czech avant-garde of Twenties (lecture) 26.10. Lucie Daňková: Romantic Landscape Architecture of the Czech Lands (excursion – entrance fee) 2.11. Markéta Čejková: Czech Modernism in Architecture (focused on Prague) (lecture) 9.11. Lucie Daňková: The Phenomenon of Japonisme in Czech Art (lecture) 16.11. Viktória Beličáková: Gender and Sexuality during Socialism (lecture) 23.11. Markéta Čejková: Villa Müller (excursion – entrance fee) 30.11. Tereza Havelková: The Surrealism and Socialist Realism in Czech Context (lecture) 7.12. Klára Jarolímková: The Northern Renaissance Paintings of the Lobkowicz Collections (excursion – entrance fee) 14.12. Viktória Beličáková: Gender and Sexuality in the 90s and 00s (lecture) 4.1. Lenka Šimková: Czech Action Art through the Eyes of Photography (lecture) Poslední úprava: Adamcová Kateřina, Mgr., Ph.D. (19.09.2021)
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Selected Topics from the Czech Art History V Winter Semester of 2021/2022
Viktória Beličáková Gender and Sexuality during Socialism The lecture will explore the topics of gender, sexuality and intimacy in visual arts during socialism in Czechoslovakia. It will present several key authors of this period, the overall context in which they worked, and it will tackle topics of materiality, performativity, corporeality and other foundational characteristics of these practices. Moreover, the lecture will discuss this phenomenon from contemporary perspective, placing it in the broader context of Eastern Europe and reflecting on similarities and differences of these practices across the region. Finally, the lecture will discuss the relevance of feminist framework when analyzing this topic. Literature: Iveta Jusová – Jiřina Šiklová (eds): Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe., Indiana University Press, 2016 Bojana Pejić (ed): Gender Check, A Reader: Art and Theory in Eastern Europe, Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010 Bojana Pejić (ed.), Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe. Cologne: Walter König, 2009 Kateřina Lišková: Sexual liberation, socialist style : Communist Czechoslovakia and the science of desire, 1945-1989, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018 Kateřina Lišková: Sex under socialism: From emancipation of women to normalized families in Czechoslovakia, Sexualities 19 (1–2), s. 211–235, 2016 Marianne A. Ferber, Raabe Hutton, Women in the Czech Republic: Feminism, Czech Style, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 16, No. 3., Toward Gender Equity: policies and Strategies, 2003, s. 407-430 Susanne Lozo, Katarina Wagner Hilke: The Medea Insurrection. Radical Women Artists behind the Iron Curtain, 2019 Tomáš Pospiszyl: An associative art history: comparative studies of neo-avant-gardes in a bipolar world, Praha: tranzit.cz, 2017 Tomáš Pospiszyl: Reading Performances. Literary Aspects of Conceptual and Performance Art in Eastern Europe. Sandra Frimmel, Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen, Katalin Krasznahorkai, Nastasia Louveau, Dorota Sajewska, Sylvia Sasse (eds.). 2020. Doing Performance Art History. http://www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/apparatus/article/view/192/468 Taťána Petrasová – Rostislav Švácha (eds.), Art in the Czech Lands 800–2000, Praha: Artefactum – Arbor vitae societas, 2017 Gender and Sexuality in the 90s and 00s The lecture will discuss the art practices that tackle gender identity and gendered experience during the 90s and 00s in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This period brought a strong generation of female artists, as well as art historians and theoreticians, who dealt with gender, intimacy and sexuality. They were reflecting on impulses from Wester Feminism, while considering the local context and their predecessors who addressed similar topics in the previous period. Literature: Iveta Jusová – Jiřina Šiklová (eds): Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016 Zuzana Štefková: Naked Babes, Macho Feminists, and Queer Eyes. Curating Gender in Contemporary Czech and Slovak Exhibition Practice, In: Mária Orišková (ed): Curating 'Eastern Europe' and beyond: art histories through the exhibition, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013 Martina Pachmanová: The Muzzle: Gender and Sexual Politics in Contemporary Czech Art [online], ArtMargins, https://artmargins.com/the-muzzle-gender-and-sexual-politics-in-contemporary-czech-art/ Eva Kalivodová: Czech Society in-between the Waves, European Journal of Women’s Studies 12 (4), London 2005 Rebecca Nash: Exhaustion from Explanation: Reading Czech Gender Studies in the 1990s, European Journal of Women’s Studies 9 (3), London 2002 Marianne A. Ferber, Raabe Hutton, Women in the Czech Republic: Feminism, Czech Style, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 16, No. 3., Toward Gender Equity: policies and Strategies, 2003, s. 407-430 Bojana Pejić (ed): Gender Check, A Reader: Art and Theory in Eastern Europe, Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010 Bojana Pejić (ed.), Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe. Cologne: Walter König, 2009 Ana Janevski, Roxana Marcoci, Ksenia Nouril (eds): Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: Critical Anthology, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2018
Ing. Mgr. Markéta Čejková Czech Modernism in Architecture (focused on Prague) The lecture will outline the Czech architectural modernism between the world wars with the special focus on Prague. The economic, political and cultural specifics will be briefly discussed first to explain the unique situation of Czechoslovakia as a newly established democracy. The lecture will then cover the individual as well as collective housing with excellent examples of Villa Müller designed by Adolf Loos, the housing estate Baba built in Prague 6 by almost exclusively Czech architects continuing with examples of other than housing architecture. Literature: Premysl Veverka, Radomira Sedlakova, Petr Krajci, Zdenek Lukes, Dita Dvorakova, Pavel Vlcek: Great Villas of Prague, Prague 2008 Petr Urlich (ed), Lenka Popelová, Radomíra Sedláková, Pavel Skranc, Pavel Vlček, Petr Vorlík: Great Buildings of Prague 6, Prague 2009 Jana Hornekova, Karel Ksandr, Maria Szadkowska, Vladimir Slapeta: Villa Müller, Prague 2002 Lecture 2: Villa Müller, entrance fee, limited number of participants The lecture will be held in Villa Müller, designed by Adolf Loos and being an excellent example of modernist architecture. The tour will be focused on the architecture and Raumplan, original design concept developed by Adolf Loos and will also cover the history of the villa and the family as well as the furniture, fittings and art inside the villa. Literature: Jana Hornekova, Karel Ksandr, Maria Szadkowska, Vladimir Slapeta: Villa Müller, Prague 2002
Lucie Daňková The Phenomenon of Japonisme in Czech Art The lecture will focus on the phenomenon of Japonisme in the Czech lands - specifically on the popularity of Japanese art and its influence on Czech art from the 1880s to the early 20th century. Local collectors of Japanese art will also be discussed. Literature: Helen BURNHAM / Sarah THOMPSON / Jane BRAUN: Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan. Boston 2014 Romantic Landscape Architecture of the Czech Lands The lecture will focus on pavilions and other small architectural structures in Bohemian and Moravian landscape parks from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Can be combined with an excursion. Literature: Marie BENESOVA, : Les trois périodes du néo-gothique en Bohême. In: A. BOUSAGLIA / V. TERRAZOLI (eds.): Il Neogotico nel XIX e XX secolo. Milano 1989, 128
Mgr. Tereza Havelková The Surrealism and Socialist realism in Czech context In this lecture we will focus on the complicated relationship between the avant-garde, specifically Czech Surrealism and the Socialist realism promoted by the communist regime in the Soviet Union and since late 1940s also in Czechoslovakia. This topic has a broader international context and we will also briefly look at the approach of French Surrealism, but the focus will be on the Czech Surrealist group and its views on socialism in general and the so-called Socialist realism in particular. We will see how this relationship changed over the decades as we will follow its development from 1920s to the early 1950s. Literature: Articles (will be provided): Mythology in Czech modern painting This lecture will focus on the topic of mythology as a subject of Czech modern art, we will mostly talk about the period from 1920s to 40s, when myth became an important topic of modern art in general, when Picasso created his Minotaur series, the Surrealists magazine Minotaure was published and artists as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman explored ancient mythology in New York. In the context of Czech art we can see inspiration from Paris but also some very original versions of modern myths in paintings by Josef Šíma or Emil Filla or the younger generation of Group 42. We will discuss the role of art critics such as Karel Teige and Jindřich Chalupecký, or even Russian linguist Roman Jakobson, who talked about modern versions of myths and we will also see how the turbulent political situation influenced the meaning constituted by myths of various origins and appearances. Literature: Taťána Petrasová – Rostislav Švácha (eds.), Art in the Czech Lands 800–2000, Praha: Artefactum – Arbor vitae societas, 2017 Eric Dluhosch and Rostislav Svacha (eds.) Karel Teige / 1900–1951, L'Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde, MIT Press (accessible in the Prague city library, I will make scans of the important chapters and upload them to the Teams platform) Articles: Shorter texts: Other:
Mgr. Klára Jarolímková 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 The Artificialism of Štyrský and Toyen and the Czech avant-garde of Twenties Artificialism was a unique and original movement created by two Czech artists: Jindřich Štyrský and Toyen. They founded their own artistic style in Paris during their stay there in the Nineteen Twenties. Influenced by the contemporary avant-gardes, they defined their style in opposition to the French surrealism and cubism movements. They were friends with many poets from the Czech artistic group Devětsil. In their manifesto of Artificialism they identified a painter with a poet. What is an artificialist painting? How was the artificialist work influenced by the reality, dreams, memories, unconscious, poetry and exoticism? We will explore the relation between Czech avant-garde and the artificialist painters in the Twenties. Literature: BENSON, O. Timothy (ed.): Central-European Avant-Gardes. Exchange and Transformation (1910-1930), Cambridge, MIT Press 2002
PhDr. Lenka Šimková Art at Play. The Element of Playfulness in Czech Modern Art From the times of Cabaret Voltaire the element of play, playfulness as well as the endeavour to set rules to a game which will produce art or will itself be perceived as art started to play an ever more important role in the history modern art. The Czech artistic milieu was no exception. The lecture will discuss Czech Avant-Garde, surrealist activities in war-time Czechoslovakia, the Smidras group, as well as playful elements in the sixties geometric art and beginnings of action art. Literature: Czech Action Art through the Eyes of Photography The lecture will focus on the Czech action art and related ephemeral artistic forms of expression that are usually known to us only thanks to the fact that they were somehow captured in photography. Although considered anti-institutional and anti-commercial, the artists soon developed a number of various strategies how to preserve their artworks through photography and the photographs themselves soon achieved the status of a valued artefact. An important focus will also be put on the actual authors of these photographs – professional or amateur – who often remain unmentioned. Literature: Poslední úprava: Adamcová Kateřina, Mgr., Ph.D. (15.09.2021)
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