Course detail

Theory and Art in the 20th Century 1 - summer

FaVU-TU-LAcad. year: 2021/2022

The course will introduce students to key terminology and approaches of contemporary art theory and criticism. During the course, students will learn about the dominant methodological approaches to art theory of the 20th century (marxisma and post-marxism, psychoanalysis, phenomenology and hermeneutics, analytic philosophy, structuralism and post-structuralism, feminism, and post-modernism. Each of the aforementioned theoretical approach will be introduced though the elucidation of its basic concepts and key figures and afterwords will be applied to modern and contemporary art. The course graduate should be able to understand the "jargon" of contemporary critical and theoretical text and should be able to identify them with the corresponding philosophical school.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Mgr. Václav Magid

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The graduates of the class should be capable of reading and reflecting texts of actual art criticism and art theory so that they could place them in the relevant methodological streem in the theory of the 20th century. This orientation should empower them to understand thinking about art in its wider philosophical, social and political frameworks.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the history of art and of the general history of 19th - 20th centuries, experience with reading recent art criticism and art theory.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The classwork is based on the combination of lectures, aimed at the general introducing of a topic, with collective reading of short theoretical texts.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Essay.

Course curriculum

1. The modernist/enlightenment project
2. The fouding subject: from Descartes to Hegel
3. The subject after Kant: German idealism - Fichte, Schelling, Hegel - the master and the slave
4. Man, history,and alienation: Hegel and Marx
5. The essential marxist terminology
6. Romanticism
7. Kierkegaard and the beginnings of existentialism
8. Friedrich Nietzsche
9. Sigmund Freud and the basic psychoanalytic terminology

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The goal of the course lies in helping students to become qualified readers of contemporary theory (of art).

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

Lectures are optional.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Hal FOSTER – Rosalind KRAUSSOVÁ – Yve-Alain BOIS – Benjamin H. D. BUCHLOH, Umění po roce 1900. Modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus, Praha: Slovart 2007
Konrad Paul LIESSMANN, Filozofie moderního umění, Olomouc: Votobia 2000
Miroslav PETŘÍČEK, Úvod do současné filosofie, Praha: Herrmann & synové 1997

Type of course unit

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Mgr. Václav Magid