Course detail

Overview of the 20th Century World Art History between 1900–1945 1

FaVU-1SDU-ZAcad. year: 2022/2023

The course introduces basic concepts, ideas, programs, artistic exchange and political, social and economic conditions to the artistic work between 1900–1945. The course includes all media: painting, sculpture, photography, installation and typography. The lectures address critical issues of the role of institutions such as academies, artistic groups and collectives, museums and galleries and artistic criticism as well. The course includes critical approaches to issues like social and gender equality, national and racial politics from the post-colonialist and feminist view point. Students will be able to critically think about Early Modern Art and they will be able to use proper terms and concepts.
The course wil be taught on-line via MS Teams.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Ladislav Jackson, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will have a basic overview of artistic institutions, key figures and their work; they will be able to attribute key artistic works and they will be able to characterize artistic programs and groups of European and North-American modernism between 1900 to 1930.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of general history and cultural history.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lectures accompanied with slides of reproductions of the key works are supported with class discussions, on-line lectures via MS Teams.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Test.

Course curriculum

1. Fathers of Modern Thinking: Darwin, Nietsche, Marx, Freud and the visual arts
2. Secession: Revolting artistic groups and modernism at academis: Vienna, Berlin, Munich
4. Artist, production, buyer: Arts and Crafts, Wiener Werkstätte, Deutscher Werkbund
5. Manifestos of expressionism: Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter, theosofy and visual arts
6. Cubism: Picasso, Braque, Gleizes, Gris, Léger; cubist scuplture (Lipschitz, Zadkinw, Brancusi), architecture and design
7. Roots of abstraction: Kandinski, Delauny, Duchamp, Kupka
8. World Fairs I.: 1904 St. Louis, 1905 Liége, 1913 Ghent, 1915 Panama-Pacific
9. American Dream: Modernism (O’Keeffe, Hartley) vs. realism (Wood, Hopper), Harlem Renaissance, Federal Art Project
10. Italian futurism: Marinetti, Boccioni, Balla, Marey
11. Bauhaus in Wiemar: Gropius, Klee, Desbourg, Kandinski
12. Avant-garde and ideology I.: Malevic, Kandinski, Lissitsky, Tatlin, socialist classicism

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course is to present major figures, artistic works, artistic groups, programs and institutions of European and North-American art between 1900 to 1930, to present contemporary way of thinking and characterize contemporary texts and manifestos.

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

Attendance compulsory, 50% attandence is tolerated.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Clark, T. J., Farewell to an Idea. Episodes from a History of Modernism. New Haven a London 1999 (CS)
Fiedler, J.; Ackermann, U., Bauhaus, Kolín n. Rýnem 2006 (CS)
Foster, H.; Krauss R.; Bois, Y.-A.; Buchloh B. H. D., Umění po roce 1900, Praha 2007 (CS)
Gobrich, E., Příběh umění, Praha, 1992. (CS)
Haas, F., Architektura 20. století. Praha 1978 (CS)
Halada, J.; Hlavačka, M., Světové výstavy : od Londýna 1851 po Hannover 2000, Praha 2000 (CS)
Harrison, Ch.; Wood, P. (eds.), Art in theory, 1900-2000: An anthology of changing ideas. Malden 2003 (CS)
Krauss,R., The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. Cambridge, Mass. 1985 (CS)
Lamač, M., Myšlenky moderních malířů. Praha 1989 (CS)
Schapiro, M., Modern Art. 19th&20th Centuries. New York 1968 (CS)
Wittlich, P., Umění nové doby: Doba secese, Praha 1987 (CS)

Type of course unit

Lecture

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Ladislav Jackson, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1.Expressive tendencies, art groups in Germany, fauvism.
2.The way to cubism, tu cubism in painting sculpture, "cubist painters".
3.Orfism, futurism, abstractive tendencies, De Stijl.
4. Constructivist tendencies, phenomenon Bauhaus, kinetic art, Russian avant-garde.
5. Dadaism, surrealism, their spreading and influence.
6. "Parisian School".
7. Expressive tendencies between the world wars, "Neue Sachlichkeit".
5. Neo-classicism, art deco, art of dictatorships - Italy, Germany, USSR.