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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. Historical concepts regarding the origins of ceramics and their implications. Ceramics of the Eurasian Neolithic and Eneolithic. Prehistoric sites in the Czech lands. 2. Ceramics of prehistoric Eurasian societies as a technology that transformed civilization. Mesopotamia, Egypt. 3. The Far East from prehistory to the early modern period. Trade as a process of civilizational exchange. 4. American ceramic traditions. The function of figurative imagery, typology, and the sophistication of the medium in non-literate cultures. 5. Ancient Greek ceramics. Production organization, technology, typology, styles, subject matter, and the relationship between form and decoration. Figural sculpture. 6. Mass production and technological transformation. Roman *terra sigillata*, Near Eastern faience. 7. Medieval ceramics. Architectural function, paving, enclosed heating systems, and the evolution of stove tiles. Ceramics as an artistic medium. 8. Italian majolica and French faience. Relationship to "high" art, thematic contexts, technology, and Cipriano Piccolpasso. Polychrome monumental ceramic sculpture. 9. Forms of early modern European stoneware, from Loštice and Dreihausen to American Edgefield ware. 10. The ceramic medium in the creative processes of pre-modern artists who were not primarily ceramicists. 11. Intercontinental trade, collecting, and cultural transfer between Europe and the Far East (16th-18th centuries). Luxury, humor, and exploitation. 12. 18th-century dining culture. Early European porcelain and its alternatives. 13. The plasticity of ceramics during the Industrial Revolution. The perception of malleability, the rhetoric of revelation, an examination of the relationship between craftsmanship and industrial means of production. The middle class, capitalism, and style.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Multimedia supported teaching, Students' portfolio, One-to-One tutorial
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 30 hours per semester
- Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40)
- 20 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 48 hours per semester
- Attendance on a field trip (number of real hours - maximum 8h/day)
- 8 hours per semester
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| navigate the fundamental developmental stages of general art history, be familiar with major artistic styles, movements, and their characteristic features, understand basic art-historical terminology, apply knowledge of general art history to contextualize the specialized subject matter of the history of ceramics |
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| formulate fact-based arguments and clearly present one's own positions in professional discussions, work critically with information, assess its relevance, and utilize it in solving professional tasks, possess the fundamental skills required to produce professional texts at an academic level, articulate professional insights in writing in a structured and clear manner |
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| understands the main theories regarding the origins of ceramics and their significance for interpreting the history of ceramic production, is familiar with the development of ceramics from the Neolithic period to the Industrial Revolution, in both European and non-European contexts, is familiar with the key characteristics of ceramic production in major historical civilizations, is familiar with the principal ceramic technologies, materials, and manufacturing processes employed across various historical periods, is familiar with the basic types of ceramic products and their functions within everyday, religious, architectural, and artistic contexts, understands the relationship between ceramic production, social changes, and the economic development of individual cultures, is able to place specific ceramic artifacts within their appropriate historical, cultural, and technological contexts |
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| is able to identify and characterize fundamental ceramic technologies, materials, and production processes within their historical development, analyzes ceramic artifacts with regard to their formal, functional, technological, and iconographic characteristics, interprets ceramic objects within broader historical, cultural, social, and economic contexts, is able to distinguish between various ceramic traditions, technologies, and typological groups across historical periods and geographical regions, applies specialized terminology when describing and interpreting ceramic works and the historical contexts of their creation, is able to critically compare different approaches to the study of the history of ceramics and evaluate their contribution to the understanding of material culture, independently locates, categorizes, and evaluates scholarly sources related to the history of ceramics and allied fields, presents findings orally and in writing in accordance with the fundamental requirements of academic communication |
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| Individual presentation at a seminar |
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Recommended literature
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Benda, Klement. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. Díl 1., část 1., Od počátků do konce středověku. Praha: Academia, 1984.
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Blažíček, Oldřich J. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. Díl 2., část 1., Od počátků renesance do závěru baroka. Praha: Academia, 1989. ISBN 80-200-0069-0.
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Blažíček, Oldřich J. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. Díl 2., část 2., Od počátků renesance do závěru baroka. Praha: Academia, 1989. ISBN 80-200-0069-0.
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Blažíčková - Horová, Naděžda; Lorenzová, Helena; Petrasová, Taťána. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. (III/1), 1780/1890. Praha: Academia, 2001. ISBN 80-200-0735-0.
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Dickerson III, C. D.; Sigel, Anthony; Wardropper, Ian. Bernini: Sculpting in Clay. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. ISBN 0300185006.
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Edmund, de Waal. The White Road. Journey into an Obsession. London: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2015. ISBN 0374289263.
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Garth Clark. American Ceramics. 1876 to the Present. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. ISBN 0896597431.
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GREENHALGH, P. Ceramic, Art and Civilisation. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. ISBN 9781474239721.
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James David Draper, Guilhelm Scherf. Playing with Fire. European Terracotta Models, 1740-1840. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.
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Jeffrey Munger; Elizabeth Sullivan. European Porcelain in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. ISBN 1588396436.
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Kol. autorů. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění V. Praha: Academia.
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Kol. autorů. From a king's dream to mass production: 300 years of European porcelain; catalogue of the anniversary exhibition. Hohenberg a.d. Eger: Deutsches Porzellanmuseum, 2010. ISBN 9783940027092.
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Rawson, Philip S. Ceramics. First paperback edition. 1984.
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Riley, Noël (ed.). Dějiny užitého umění : vývoj užitého umění a stylistických prvků od renesance do postmoderní doby. Praha: Slovart, 2004. ISBN 80-7209-549-8.
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Tamara Preaud. Sévres Extraordinaire! Sculpture from 1740 until Today. New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2024. ISBN 978-0300278750.
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Timothy Wilson; Luke Syson. Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New Haven: University Press, 2016.
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