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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Contents of the lectures in course History of Ceramics 1. Introduction to the history of ceramics - typology, overview of technology, style periods of crafts and decorative arts, centers of development, role of outstanding personalities. 2. Ceramic production in prehistory and Antiquity. 3. Ceramic production in Renaissance. 4. Ceramic production of the Baroque period. 5. Origins and development of European porcelain production in the 18th century. 6. Stoneware of the 18th and 19th centuries. 7. Czech porcelain and stoneware at the end of the 18th and the 1st half of the 19th centuries. 8. Ceramics and porcelain in the second half of the 19th century - historicism, orientalism. 9. Ceramics and porcelain in Art Nouveau period. 10. Ceramics and pottery in the first half of the 20th century. 11. Ceramics and porcelain after 1950. 12. Field trip - visit to occasional exhibitions, museum collections and depositories, ceramic studios. 13. The history of ceramics from Antiquity to the 20th century - summary. Note: The order of topics may change, depending partly on options for field trip
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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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| to provide basic knowledge of technical and technological procedures of ceramics products, to specify basic knowledge of supporting arts disciplines, to have basic knowledge about artistic and style canons of evolution of visual and applied art |
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| to work systematically on either seminar work or own learning, to show interest in learning of theory of problematics usable in own practical work, to use basic expresive means and options of ceramics creations, |
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| of basic shape types of ceramics in different historical periods, of important areas of development and centers of development of ceramic production (eg. Etruria, Greece, Tuscany, Rhineland, Delft, Meissen, Vallauris ...), of major manufacturers in various stages of ceramic production (eg. della Robia, Wedgwood, Deck, Rosenthal ...), of the characteristics of ceramics in various stylistic phases (Antiquity, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical ...), |
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| to chronologically locate ceramic products according to the material used and its processing, to list artists in terms of style and technology development (eg, Palissy, Böttger, Solon, Seger ...), to describe special groups of ceramic products in the history (eg, majolica istoriato, habana ceramics, English pottery, ceramics of Czech Cubism), to illustrate, on exemples, the characteristics of ceramic production in various centers in Europe, to comprehensively describe historical development of ceramics and porcelain production in the Czech lands, to formulate, in their own words, their view of the development of ceramics in the 20th century and contemporary ceramics, to monitor mutual influences between historical centers of ceramic production, to analyze the shape of a pottery container from the aesthetic and functional points of view, to identify detailed stylistic elements on specific examples from history, to compare possibilities for ceramic design in relation to technological knowledge in the historical period, to assess major contributions of outstanding ceramic artists from the point of view of historical and style development, |
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Recommended literature
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Adlerová Alena. Česká secese, užité umění. Praha -výst. kat., Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum, 1981.
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Anděl, Jaroslav,; Švestka, Jiří,; Vlček, Tomáš,; Liška, Pavel. Český kubismus 1909-1925 : malířství, sochařství, architektura, design. [Praha] : i3 CZ, 2006. ISBN 80-239-6658-8.
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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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Blažíčková - Horová, Naděžda; Petrasová, Taťána; Lorenzová, Helena. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. (III/2), 1780/1890. Praha : Academia, 2001. ISBN 80-200-0735-0.
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Horová, Anděla (ed.). Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. [Díl] IV/1, 1890-1938. Praha : Academia, 1998. ISBN 80-200-0587-0.
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Horová, Anděla (ed.). Dějiny českého výtvarného umění. [Díl] IV/2, 1890-1938. Praha : Academia, 1998. ISBN 80-200-0623-0.
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Konečný, Milan. Česká keramika : rukověť keramického průmyslu v Čechách 1748-1948. Vyd. 1. Praha : Milan Konečný, 2003. ISBN 80-238-9460-9.
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Kybalová, Jana. Evropská kamenina. Praha : Aventinum, 1991. ISBN 80-85277-01-8.
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Kybalová, Jana. Kamenina v Čechách a na Moravě. 1. vyd. Praha : Panorama, 1993.
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Poche Emanuel / Hejdová Dagmar. Porcelán. Praha, 1993.
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Rada, Pravoslav. Techniky keramiky. Vyd. 1. Praha : Aventinum, 1995. ISBN 80-85277-47-6.
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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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Walcha O. Meißner Porzellan. Dresden, 1973.
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Weiß, Gustav. Keramika : umění z hlíny : kulturní dějiny a keramické techniky. 1. vyd. Praha : Grada, 2007. ISBN 978-80-247-1954-2.
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