Czech

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Students will be able to define the basic concepts related to art in public space, to identify and classify artistic expressions, and in the case of permanently installed works of art to describe the mechanism of their placement, including a reflection of the ideological context at the time of their placement (town function, political and power representation, national intentions, transfers of unofficial expressions). At the same time students should be able to assess the role of works of art in public space at present and apply the current interpretative strategies in their interpretation.

Knowledge of history and art history at the secondary school level.

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Lectures and excursions; during one semester there are always 10 lectures and 3 excursions (a guided tour of places of important architectural and artistic heritage and contemporary artistic works in Brno in situ; a visit to an art institution).

The credit is awarded for a presentation given in the classroom. The assignment will be specified in the initial lesson after a consultation with the teacher to take into account students' individual preferences. The scope of the presentation: about 15 minutes, an interpretation, visual documentation, giving the sources.

1. Public space: a general introduction to the topic and selected explanatory strategies in the context of history of art, architecture, urbanism and regional planning; the basic theoretical approaches (sociological, empirical, art-historical)
2. The uncertain meaning of the term of "public space", its symbolic ownership and legitimate use
3. Historical changes: the public space as a basis of the traditional composition of city (Giambattista Nolli, Otto Wagner, Camillo Sitte); the collapse of tradition - abstract functionalist urbanism (Le Corbusier)
4. Attempts to return to the traditional urban forms, generic city, "metastatic" urbanism - the renewal of Barcelona
5. From the park to the shopping mall: the tension between the private and public dimensions of urban space
6. A memorial as a political act; "memorial disputes" as indicators of social and political changes
Significant examples in the Czech Republic: the Marian Column in the Old Town Square, the Liberation Monument at Vítkov in Prague)
7. The Communist-era planning development: systemic installations of works of art in public space
8. Damnatio memoriae and the "minus effect": the removal and demolition of sculptural monuments
(The Stalin Monument at Letná in Prague, The Communists in the Moravian Square in Brno)
9. The apparent autonomy: the contemporary artistic works in public space and their correspondence with the official assignment
10. Examples of top-down and bottom-up strategies (The Monument Manual)
11. The current curatorial and artistic approaches. Finding a consensus among the "statues in the streets" and the contemporary dematerialized art concepts
12. The current strengthening of the role of the state as the assigning authority
13. Artistic works as a commentary on the history of the 20th and 21st centuries (domestic and foreign examples).

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The lectures deal with public art in the context of Euro-American culture from the 19th century to the present. At the end of the course, students will be able to deal with the topic of public space and to identify the role of works of art in different political regimes. Based on the knowledge gained students should be able to deal with and interpret the new character of space as well as individual works of art.

Lectures are not mandatory.

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