Poválečné britské a americké umění v kontextu - AAALE006A

• Anglický název: Post-War British and American Art in Context
• Zajišťuje: Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2020
• Semestr: letní
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 5
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:0/2, Z [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / 15 (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Další informace: https://dl1.cuni.cz/enrol/index.php?id=1130
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: Louis Armand, Ph.D.
• Vyučující: Louis Armand, Ph.D.
• Je korekvizitou pro: AAALE015B, AAALE006B
• Je záměnnost pro: AAA500418

Anotace

Poslední úprava: Louis Armand, Ph.D. (19.02.2024)

This is a graduate seminar in the Critical and Cultural Theory MA Programme

The seminar offers a selected survey of developments in British and American Art from the Post-War period. There will also be a focus on early avant-garde movements, such as Vorticism in Britain and Dada in the USA, following the European influences of Cubism, Futurism and Dada. Special attention will also be given to selected theoretical writings and art criticism.

REQUIRED READING
Foster, Krauss, Bois & Buchloh, Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (London: Thames & Hudson, 2004)
Renato Poggioli, The Theory of the Avant-Garde
Peter Bürger, Theory of the Avant-Garde.

ASSESSMENT
One essay, of 3,000 words due 10 June. Essays must include full bibliographical references (footnotes) for all works cited or paraphrased (preferably in accordance with the MLA style, e.g. http://webster.commnet.edu/mla.htm). Emphasis will be placed on the component of original research, and students are advised not to use Web sources in place of adequately researching texts available in print. The topic of the essay is: IS THE INSTITUTIONALISATION OF THE AVANT-GARDE INEVITABLE? Essays should engage with an artist’s (theorist's) or group of artist's (theorist's) work, along with detailed discussion of (a) selected critical or theoretical text(s) relevant to the topic.

Literatura

Poslední úprava: Louis Armand, Ph.D. (13.04.2021)

POST-WAR BRITISH & AMERICAN ART


PROBLEMS OF THE AVANTGARDE
Leon Trotsky & Andre Breton, "Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art" (1938) (https://www.generation-online.org/c/fcsurrealism1.htm)

Jean-Francois Lyotard, "Representation, Presentation, Unpresentable" (The Inhuman)

Roland Barthes, "Rhetoric of the Image" (The Responsibility of Forms)

Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital (chap. 15)

Clement Greenberg, 'Avant-Garde and Kitsch' (MOODLE)


DADA / SURREALISM
Man Ray, Duchamp, "New York Dada)
(https://monoskop.org/New_York_Dada)

A. Murjian, "Dada City: New York’s Contribution to a European Movement"
(https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/new-york-dada-20th-century-cultural-capital-1202673053/)

Thierry de Duve, "Kant After Duchamp"

Lionel Abel, "The Surrealists in New York"
(https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/lionel-abel-2/the-surrealists-in-new-york/)

Martica Sawin, "Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School"

Jean-Francois Lyotard, "The Sublime & the Avant-Garde" (The Inhuman)


AB EX
Roland Barthes, "Is Painting a Language?" (The Responsibility of Forms)

Clement Greenberg, 'American Type Painting' (MOODLE)

Harold Rosenberg, 'American Action Painters' (MOODLE)

Rosalind Krauss, The Optical Unconscious (chap. 6), on Pollock, Twombly, Warhol et al.

Roland Barthes, "Cy Twombly: Works on Paper" (The Responsibility of Forms)


MINIMALISM
Michael Fried, 'Art and Objecthood' (MOODLE)

Mel Bochner, 'Serial Art' (MOODLE)

Robert Morris, 'Notes on Sculpture' (MOODLE)


NEO-DADA
Branden W. Joseph, "Robert Rauschenberg" (October Files) (MOODLE)


POP ART
Annette Michelson, "Andy Warhol" (October Files) (MOODLE)

Lawrence Alloway, 'Topics in American Art' (MOODLE)

Barbara Rose, 'ABC Art' (MOODLE)

Hal Foster, 'Recodings' (MOODLE)


SITE SPECIFIC
Gordon Matta-Clark: ‘Somewhere Outside the Law’
https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/36320/1/Alliez-E-36320-AAM.pdf

Gordon Matta-Clark and the Politics of Shared Space
https://placesjournal.org/article/gordon-matta-clark-spacism/

Robert Smithson, "Collectd Writings"
(https://monoskop.org/images/b/bd/Smithson_Robert_Collected_Writings_no_OCR.pdf)


CONCEPTUALISM
Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson (eds.), Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology

Sol LeWitt, "Sentences on Conceptual Art": https://monoskop.org/images/3/3d/LeWitt_Sol_1969_1999_Sentences_on_Conceptual_Art.pdf

Alex Albero, 'Inside the White Box' + Harold Rosenberg, 'Defining Art' (MOODLE)

John Cage, 'An Autobiographical Statement' (MOODLE)

Toby Mussman, 'Literalness and the Infinite' (MOODLE)

Endless Constellations: On “Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–1979”
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/endless-constellations-on-women-in-concrete-poetry-1959-1979/


CYBERNETIC / DIGITAL / VIRTUAL
Jean Baudrillard, 'The Precession of Simulacra' (MOODLE)

Jasia Reichardt, "Cybernetic Serendipity" (https://monoskop.org/Cybernetic_Serendipity)


GENERAL
Brian Wallis (ed), Blasted Allegories (Writings by Contemporary Artists)

Hal Foster (ed.), Vision & Visuality

Hal Foster (ed.), Discussions in Contemporary Culture

*MEMORY OF THE WORLD / CRITICAL BOOKS
https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/

*MONOSKOP.ORG

*UBU.COM

Metody výuky

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (05.01.2014)

seminář

Požadavky ke zkoušce

Poslední úprava: Louis Armand, Ph.D. (26.01.2020)

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Sylabus

Poslední úprava: Louis Armand, Ph.D. (19.02.2024)

SCHEDULE

1: Avantgardism

2: Dada, Surrealism

3: Abstract Expressionism

4: Neo-Dada

5: Pop Art

6: Minimalism

7: Conceptual Art

8: Digital/Cybernetic Art