Course detail

20th Century Art History overview 1

FaVU-1DU20-1Acad. year: 2024/2025

The course introduces students to an overview of basic thought concepts, programs, the exchange of artistic forms and the political, social and economic conditions of artistic creation in the first half of the 20th century. The course covers all art forms: painting, sculpture, design, architecture, photography, assemblage and typography. The lectures also deal critically with the role of institutions, such as academies, art organizations, museums and galleries or art criticism, in the formation of art scenes. The interpretation also contains a critical view of social, national and racial policies and a view through the prism of postcolonialism and feminism. Through the course, students should acquire critical thinking and a basic conceptual apparatus for describing and conceptualizing 20th century art programs.

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)

Entry knowledge

None.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Written exam. For passing the course there are the following conditions:

active participation (80% attendance)
50% correct answers in an exam test

Teaching takes place in the classrooms of the FFA BUT in the hours determined by the schedule. Attendance is compulsory (2 unexcused absences allowed). Higher number of absences can be compensated by submitting an alternative assignment after agreement with the teachers.

Aims

The aim of the course is to introduce important personalities, works, artistic groups, programs and institutions of art in Europe and North and South America from 1900-1945, present contemporary thinking about modern art and characterize key contemporary and contemporary texts. The male and female students will be able to characterize basic development tendencies, key historical events, and the work of canonical female and male artists.

Completion of the course should help students strengthen the ability of analytical thinking, conduct interdisciplinary dialogue and articulate a critical view of the canon of art history and its practice in the present.

Study aids

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

24 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Ladislav Jackson, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Art Nouveau (Munich, Berlin, Vienna)
Expressionism
Cubism
Futurism
The beginnings of abstraction
Suprematism and constructivism
Bauhaus
The art of totalitarian regimes
Modern Art in the United States
Modern art of Latin America
Modern artist
Modern art of ethnic minorities
Modern photography

Field trip

4 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Ladislav Jackson, Ph.D.