Course: Art in a Cultural Context

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Course title Art in a Cultural Context
Course code KFI/UKKD
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 0
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Ševčík Miloš, Doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Hečková Petra, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The emergence of the concept of visual arts. Classification of individual arts. The blurring of the boundaries of art in the 19th and 20th centuries; arts, crafts, industry and media. The emergence of new art forms in the 19th and 20th centuries: photography and film. Definition of art in the theories of the 20th century: expressiveness, aesthetic experience, symbolization, revealing the truth. Contemporary attempts to define art: art and ethical relations, interculturally shared imagery. 1. The personality of the artist from Renaissance art theory to the early avant-garde: the "discovery" of artistic individuality 2. Hegel's idea of the "end of art" and its reflection in later concepts of the development and current state of art 3. Reflection of the nature of abstract painting in its significant representatives (Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky) 4. The function and nature of the institution of the museum of fine arts in the reflections of the authors of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Group discussion, Self-study of literature
  • Contact hours - 12 hours per semester
  • Graduate study programme term essay (40-50) - 80 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 10 hours per semester
  • Individual project (40) - 28 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to outline epochs of European culture history
to introduce basic terminology of artistic styles and classification of works of art on non-specialist level
to name the amin characters of the history of European art
Skills
to include a specific work in the relevant historical period and artistic style
to evaluate a specific work of art in a contemporary context
Competences
N/A
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to describe the history of understanding of what art is from renaissance till the 21st century
to characterize particular theories of art
to explain the relations of these theories to the intellectual, social and cultural context of the period
Skills
to analyse and compare theories of art on the basis of lecture of primary and secondary literature
to formulate presuppositions and consequences of various opinions on art and theories of art, which emerged in the period
to evaluate the meaning of these opinions and theories in the context of the European culture
Competences
N/A
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Self-study of literature
Seminar classes
Skills
Lecture with visual aids
Seminar classes
Competences
Lecture
Lecture with visual aids
Self-study of literature
assessment methods
Knowledge
Seminar work
Individual presentation at a seminar
Skills
Seminar work
Individual presentation at a seminar
Competences
Seminar work
Individual presentation at a seminar
Recommended literature
  • Danto, Arthur C. Po konci umění: Současné umění a oblast mimo dějiny. Praha : Academia, 2021. ISBN 978-80-200-3289-8.
  • Déotte, Jean-Louis. Le musée, l?origine de l?esthétique. Paris: L?Harmattan. 1985.
  • Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Estetika. Sv. I a Sv. II. Praha : Odeon, 1966.
  • Kandinskij, Vasilij Vasiĺjevič. O duchovnosti v umění. 1. vyd. Praha : Triáda, 1998. ISBN 80-86138-06-2.
  • Kulka,T., Ciporanov, D.. Co je umění? Texty angloamerické estetiky 20. století. Č. Kostelec, 2010.
  • Malevič, Kazimir Severinovič. Suprematické zrcadlo. Texty k bezpředmětnosti. Praha : Brody, 1997.
  • Mondrian, Piet. Lidem budoucnosti. Praha : Triáda, 2002.
  • Patočka, J. Umění a čas II. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2004.
  • Patočka, J. Umění a čas I. Praha : OIKOYMENH, 2004.
  • Poggioli, Renato. The theory of the avant-garde. Cambridge MA: Belknap, 1968.
  • Shiner, Larry. The invention of Art: A cultural history. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
  • Srp, Karel. Rozlomená doba 1908-1928: avantgardy ve střední Evropě. Praha: Arbor vitae ? Olomouc: Muzeum umění, 2018. ISBN 978-80-88256-08-3.
  • Vasari, Giorgio. Životopisy nejvýznačnějších malířů, sochařů a architektů. 1. vyd. Praha : Odeon, 1977.


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