Portraiture in the Age of Photography: Art beyond the "Recorded" Image in the Long 19th Century - ADU100727
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Portraiture in the Age of Photography: Art beyond the ´Recorded´ Image in the Long 19th Century
2025 Art History Course for Erasmus and English-speaking students Time: THURSDAY 17.30-19.00 Place: Room 448, 4th Floor, Celetná Street No. 20. Old Town, Prague Dates: 20.2.25-15.5.25 Credits: 6 ECTS Course Leaders: Mgr. Lucie Daňková and Suzanne Bode M.A. Course Description: Portraiture has long been one of the most stable ways of artists earning a living and formed the primary means by which the usually aristocratic sitter could establish lineage, status and identity. Radical social and technological shifts of the long 19th century and the invention of photography challenged the artist’s role as the documenter of the age. How artists responded to this, is still relevant, with the most recent invention of AI technology, today. The course follows the development of the portrait in European art, examining the dynamic and varied artistic reactions to the photographic portrait image. It asks the question ´What could art offer beyond the ´simple´ reproduction of the sitter´s image?´ It´s aim is to examine and deconstruct familiar debates around the development of Art and Modernism in London, Paris, Munich and Vienna, as well as the art in the periphery in Prague. This will be done through the methodology of gender and culture studies. We begin with the silhouette portrait - a foreshadower of the photograph - and continue with the major portraiture styles of Biedermeier, Romantic, Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite art. The course ends with the Expressionist search for the spiritual in art. The radical developments of the 19th century from Realism to Aestheticism, Impressionism and early Abstraction will all be examined. Course Evaluation: The whole course is conducted in English and is intended for students of bachelor and master's programmes at Charles University and for all international students interested in the history of art. Recommended reading will be in English, but self-study of publications in other languages is highly encouraged. Credits are awarded for active participation in the course and in the final colloquium during the last lesson, which will take place at the National Gallery´s 19th and 20th century exhibition. At the colloquium students will present and analyse chosen questions regarding portrait art. Students are allowed a maximum of 3 absences. Syllabus Timetable: Introduction to the course – 20.2.25 Silhouette Portraits (Guest Lecture by Mgr. Anežka Mikulcová, Ph.D.) – 27.2.25 Introductory visit of the exhibition with 19th and 20th-century portraits in Veletržní palác (National Gallery – “Trade Fair Palace” building) - 6.3.25 The Photographic Portrait in the Long 19th Century (Lecture) - 13.3.25 Self-portrait of an Artist as an Art Collector (Lecture) - 20.3.25 The Pre-Raphaelites - Portraiture and through the Eyes of Poetry (Lecture) - 27.3.25 Impressionist Faces: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Suzanne Valadon - Artist and Model (Lecture) - 3.4.25 Gustav Klimt and the Portrait - Jewish Identity and Orientalism (Lecture) - 10.4.25 NATIONAL HOLIDAY 17.4.25 German Expressionists – Gabriele Münther, Marianne von Werefkin and the ´Female´ Gaze (Lecture) - 24.4.25 NATIONAL HOLIDAY 1.5.25 NATIONAL HOLIDAY 8.5.25 Assessment and Final Lesson: Student Presentation Project Day at Veletržní palác (Trade Fair Palace building – National Gallery) - 15.5.25 Recommended Reading - A General List Gabriel Badea-Päun - The Society Portrait: Painting, Prestige and the Pursuit of Elegance (London 2007) Charles Baudelaire - The Painter of Modern Life (Paris, 1863) Link: https://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Baudelaire_Painter-of-Modern-Life_1863.pdf John Berger - Ways of Seeing (London 1972) Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Production (1935) Link: https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf Cynthia Freeland - Portraits in Painting and Photography. In: Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition Vol. 135, No. 1, Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy: Aesthetics (Aug., 2007), pp. 95-109 Amy Freund - Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France (Pennsylvania 2015) Tamar Garb - The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814–1914 (New Haven and London 2007) Heinz K. Henish, Bridget Ann Henish - The Painted Photograph 1839-1914: Origins, Techniques, Aspirations (Pennsylvania 1996) Elizabeth McCauley - A. A. E. Disderi and the Carte De Visite Portrait Photograph (New Haven 1985) Linda Nochlin - Why have there been no great women artists? (1971) Link: https://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Nochlin-Linda_Why-Have-There-Been-No-Great-Women-Artists.pdf Martin Postle - The Artist's Model: From Etty to Spencer (London 1999) Shearer West - Portraiture (Oxford 2004) Poslední úprava: Rakušanová Marie, prof. PhDr., Ph.D. (19.02.2025)
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