Course detail

Artists and Issues

FaVU-AIS-ZAcad. year: 2016/2017

We will explore the issues of artistic identity in the course. In the first part of the seminars, students will always present a paper on a chosen artist, in the second half, we will have a discussion on the assigned tests dealing with the position of artists in a given society. In the winter semester, students will cover artists active during 1950s - 1980. The texts dealing with artistic identity and roles, however, will cover a much wider time span.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Academic reflection of selected problems of contemporary art, a detailed knowledge of artworks and viewpoints of selected contemporary artists.

Prerequisites

Students have to have excellen communicative skills in English. They will either have to have a credit from Upper-intermediate Englsh course at FaVU or write an entrance test (or have an interview with the tutor)

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Exam, attendance.
Students will be assesed from writing all essays, oral presentation, and regular reading of the assigned texts. Not having read those texts will count as an absence.

Course curriculum

1. Profils of arstists most active during the 1950s - 1980s.
2. The role, position, and the destiny of artists in medieval, modern, and contemporary societies.
a. monks
b. artists and cathedrals
c. court artists
d. guilds
e. academies
f. commissions vs free market (since early 19th century)
g. Bourdie's theory of success at the art scene (focus: 19th century Paris)
h. the avantgardists as dilletants
i. the artits as academits: postwar boom in art education
j. the artist and the dealer
k. the artist as a social scientist, the artist as a curator

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Students will read, analyse, and discuss articles and essays on the selected topics. They will have to be prepared for every lesson. They will be encouraged to prepare some topics themselves (under the techer's instruction).

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance is mandatory, students are allowed to miss two classes per semester.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

Lecture

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová

Seminar

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová