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Sociological aspects of contemporary art
FaVU-3SASUAcad. year: 2022/2023
The course connect sociological research of art with the discourse of its socially sensitive aspects. Art is understood as a configuration of social processes which participate on the production of signification. Increasing reflexivity – the attribute of late modernity – orients a part of the astethetic culture towards the exposal of the very conditions of production. Art thus substitues social research; sometimes its intention is critical (Haacke), sometimes it is playful (Tiravanija), it tests the possibilities of dialogic and participative intervention in social reality. Despite being intentional and reflexive, art production can never fully free itself from institutional and material conditions. Reflexivity defying control is nevertheless inherent to the "context"itself.
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2. Sociologically-sensitive aspects of art.
3. Art as the configuration of social processes which determine the production of signification.
4. Increasing reflexivity - the attribute od late modernity (Giddens)
5. Art substituting social research.
6. Discussion, tutorials.
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Basic literature
Grant KESTER, Conversation Pieces. Comunity and Communication in Modern Art. University of California Press, 2004. (EN)
M. W. REKTANUS, Culture incorporated. Museum, Artists and Corporate Sponsorship. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. (EN)
Nicolas BOURRIAD, Relational Aesthetics. Dijon: Les Preses du reél, 2002. (EN)
Pierre BOURDIEU – Hans HAACKE, Free Exchange. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995. (EN)
Pierre BOURDIEU, Rules of Art. Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. (EN)
Zoya KOCUR – Simon LEUNG, Theory in Contemporary Art. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. (EN)
Recommended reading
Lisa CARTWRIGHT – Marita STURKEN, Studia vizuální kultury. Praha: Portál, 2009. (CS)
Pierre BOURDIEU, Teorie jednání. Praha: Karolinum, 1998. (CS)
Thomas CROW, Modern Art in the Common Culture. Yale University Press, 1996. (EN)
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