Course detail
Feminist and Queer Context of Czech Art History
FaVU-2FQCCAAcad. year: 2023/2024
The course introduces two related aspects of critical thinking in Czech Art History. The first part presents the first, the second, the third and the fourth wave of feminism and theis relations to art history. Artists such as Milada Marešová, Běla Kolářová, Veronika Bromová, Erika Bornová will be discussed as well as female historians and critics such as Renata Tyršová, Věra Jirousová, Martina Pachmanová and the Fourth Wave movement. The second part of the course introduces queer approaches to Czech art history with the analysis of art works of Jan Zrzavý, Toyen, Libuše Jarcovjáková, Jana Štěpánová, Mark Ther, collectors like Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, Alberto di Stefano and writings by William Ritter, Václav Jamek, Martin C. Putna and others. The lectures will emphasize intersectionality of socially constructed identity politics.
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Aims
Students will have a basic overview of the history and present of gender studies in artistic theory and historiography, they will be able to characterize key figures and the changes of concepts in feminist and queer studies in art history in Czech and world context.
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
DAVIS, Whitney. Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0231146906 (EN)
HALBERSTAM, Jack. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2011. ISBN-13: 978-0822350453 (EN)
HECZKOVÁ, Libuše, ed., PACHMANOVÁ, Martina, ed. a ŠÁMAL, Petr, ed. Jak odlesk měsíce v jezeře: česká teorie a kritika umění v genderových souvislostech, 1865-1945. Překlad Eva Bendová a Martina Kadaníková. Vydání první. V Řevnicích: Arbor vitae, 2014. 327 stran. ISBN 978-80-7467-075-6. (CS)
CHADWICK, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2012 (Fifth Ediotion). ISBN-13: 978-0500204054 (EN)
NOCHLIN, Linda. Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. ISBN-13: 978-0064301831 (EN)
PACHMANOVÁ, Martina. Neznámá území českého moderního umění: pod lupou genderu. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2004. 287 s. ISBN 80-7203-613-0. (CS)
PACHMANOVÁ, Martina. Zrození umělkyně z pěny limonády: genderové kontexty české moderní teorie a kritiky umění. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze, ©2013. 163 s. ISBN 978-80-86863-64-1. (CS)
POLLOCK, Griselda. Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art. New York: Routledge, 1988. ISBN-13: 978-0415007221 (EN)
PUTNA, Martin C. a kol. Homosexualita v dějinách české kultury. Vyd. 2. Praha: Academia, 2013. 494 s., [24] s. obr. příl. Historie. ISBN 978-80-200-2293-6. (CS)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme VUM Master's
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-D , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-D , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-D , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
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Syllabus
2. Vlastní pokoj: od Virginie Woolf po Lindu Nochlin
3. Počátky ženské kritiky: Renata Tyršová, Tereza Nováková; Agnostičky: Věra Jirousová, Věra Linhartová, Hana Volavková, Milena Lamarová
4. Martina Pachmanová, Mirek Vodrážka, Jana Oravcová, Zuzana Štefková
5. "Umělecká" práce žen: 1900–1938; Od Emily Medkové k Magdaleně Jetelové
6. Veronika Bromová, Lenka Klodová, Erika Bornová, Vendula Chalánková, Kateřina Olivová
7. Počátky queer teorie umění: Od aktivismu po akademismus (John A. Symonds, Edward Carpenter, William Ritter, Harry Hay, Mapplethorpova výstava, Whitney Davis)
8. Variace a intersekcioanlita v queer teorii umění; Václav Jamek, Věra Sokolová, Martin C. Putna
9. Jan Zrzavý, Toyen, sbírka Jiřího Karáska, Generace Hlasu, Libuše Jarcovjáková a umění na okraji
10. Mark Ther, Jan Miko, Jana Štěpánová, sbírka Alberta di Stefana
11. Prezentace studentů
12. Prezentace studentů
Seminar
Teacher / Lecturer
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2. Room of One's Own: From Virginia Woolf to Lindu Nochlin
3. Beginnings of Feminist Critricism: Renata Tyršová, Tereza Nováková; Female Agnostics: Věra Jirousová, Věra Linhartová, Hana Volavková, Milena Lamarová
4. Martina Pachmanová, Mirek Vodrážka, Jana Oravcová, Zuzana Štefková
5. "Artistic" Work of Women: 1900–1938; From Emila Medková to Magdalena Jetelová
6. Veronika Bromová, Lenka Klodová, Erika Bornová, Vendula Chalánková, Kateřina Olivová
7. Road Towards Queer Theory of Art: From Activism to Academia (John A. Symonds, Edward Carpenter, William Ritter, Harry Hay, 1992 Mapplethorp's show, Whitney Davis)
8. Variations and Intersextionality in Queer Theory of Art; Václav Jamek, Věra Sokolová, Martin C. Putna
9. Jan Zrzavý, Toyen, Jiří Karásek's Collection, Generation of Hlas Magazine, Libuše Jarcovjáková and Marginal Art
10. Mark Ther, Jan Miko, Jana Štěpánová, Alberto di Stefano's Collection
11. Assignment Presentations
12. Assignment Presentations