Course detail

Key issues in 20th Century Art

FaVU-1KTUAcad. year: 2017/2018

The lecture focus on topics crucial for the development of art in the course of the 20th century. Differences between early and late articulation of various topics and their reinterpretation are traced (1910s - 1930s vs. 1950s and after. Art topics of the period are related to chief idea paradigms of that time (marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism and semiotics, feminism, post-colonial studies, etc...).

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students understand topics and ideas which are crucial for the development of 20th century art. They will be able to distinguish between their early and late articulation and reinterpretaions after 1950. They are aware of their historical, social, or political determinants and they will be able to employ perspectives from a wide spectrum of social sciences in their own interpretation of modern and contemporary art.

Prerequisites

Students must have an overall knowledge of 20th century art.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Exam (interview).

Course curriculum

1. Searching for the other - Orient, exotics, peripheries (modernist search for inspiration from distant and exotic cultures; the spreading influences of modern art and interwar avantgardes; cultural imperialism and the relationship between the art of the East and West;
postcolonialism and art.
2. Highbrow and lowbrow: the relationship of fine art and culture industry, Frankfurt school, avantgarde and kitch, The Independent Group, pop art, merging of values - digitalization, globalization.
3. Original or copy? Appropriation as an art method: from Duchamp to Youtube, the move from artistic strategies to user tactics, art in the age of mechanical reproduction, digitalization and its consequences for art
4. Autonomy or propaganda? (avantgarde attacs against the social autonomy of art and the museum, leftist avantgardes and the desire for the change of social arder, historical avantgardes and neoavantgardes; a survey of tendencies, artists and particular critical art projects concerned with social, political, and especially economical reality (street art, media interventions): reality hacking, tactical media – RTMark, Yes Men, Steve Lambert...)
5. De-skilling: from craft to medim, from medium to practise - the turn from the craft basis of artistic practices and the shift to practices which do not demand specific "artistic skills"; the artist as a manager; life is art; conceptualism, hybrid forms in which art overlaps everyday practices.
6. The subject - identity - the body: Duchamp's alter ego, surrealits games with the unconscious, gender, queer issues; new models of subjectivity, new insight into the body, postmodern subjectivity, the body and technology.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The course will introduce topics and concepts which determined the development of 20t century art. The course thus widens the general survey of 20th century art course; the aim is to contextualize knowledge students have acquired do far.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Cumpulsory attendance (3 absences accepted).

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BOIS – BUCHLOH – FOSTER – KRAUSSOVÁ, Umění po roce 1900. Praha: Slovart, 2007.

Recommended reading

Hans BELTING, Konec dějin umění. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2000
Nicolas BOURRIAUD, Postprodukce. Praha: Tranzit, 2004.
Martha BUSKIRK, The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art. Cambridge, MA – Londýn: MIT Press, 2003.
Lisa CARTWRIGHT – Marita STURKEN, Studia vizuální kultury. Praha: Portál, 2009.
Suzi GABLIKOVÁ, Selhala moderna? Olomouc: Votobia, 1995
Martina PACHMANOVÁ (ed.), Neviditelná žena. Praha: One woman press, 2002.
Tomáš POSPISZYL, Srovnávací studie. Praha, Agite Fra, 2005.
Tomáš POSPISZYL (ed.), Před obrazem. Praha: OSVU, 1998
Walter BENJAMIN, Umělecké dílo ve věku své technické reprodukovatelnosti. In: Dílo a jeho zdroj. Praha: Odeon, 1979, s. 17–43.
Peter BÜRGER, „Negace autonomie umění v avantgardě“. Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny, 2007, č. 1 – 2, s. 168–175.
Clement GREENBERG, „Avantgarda a kýč.“ Revue Labyrint, 2000, č. 7–8, s. 69–74.
Thierry DE DUVE, „When form has become attitude – and beyond“. In Simon LEUNG – Zoya KOCUR (eds.), Theory in Contemporary Art: From 1985 to the Present. Blackwell Publishing, 2004, s. 19–31
Hal FOSTER, „Co je nového na neoavantgardě?“ Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny, 2010, č. 8, s. 58 – 84
Anour ABDEL–MALEK – Chinua ACHEBE – Aimé CÉSAIRE – Achille MBEMBE – Edward W. SAID – Ngũgĩ WA THIONGʼO, Postkoloniální myšlení II, Praha: tranzit.cz, 2011.
Frantz FANON, Černá kůže, bílé masky. Praha: tranzit, 2011. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch AGD2 , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch APD , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AGD1 , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AS2 , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AS1 , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM1 , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AKG , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM3 , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM2 , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AIN , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AVI , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AFO , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AEN , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AMU , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch ATD , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch APE , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Seminar

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer