Course detail
Theory and Art in the 20th Century - winter
FaVU-TU-ZAcad. year: 2018/2019
The course will introduce students to key terminology and approaches of contemporary art theory and criticism. During the course, students will learn about the dominant methodological approaches to art theory of the 20th century (marxisma and post-marxism, psychoanalysis, phenomenology and hermeneutics, analytic philosophy, structuralism and post-structuralism, feminism, and post-modernism. Each of the aforementioned theoretical approach will be introduced though the elucidation of its basic concepts and key figures and afterwords will be applied to modern and contemporary art. The course graduate should be able to understand the "jargon" of contemporary critical and theoretical text and should be able to identify them with the corresponding philosophical school.
Supervisor
Learning outcomes of the course unit
The graduates of the class should be capable of reading and reflecting texts of actual art criticism and art theory so that they could place them in the relevant methodological streem in the theory of the 20th century. This orientation should empower them to understand thinking about art in its wider philosophical, social and political frameworks.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the history of art and of the general history of 19th - 20th centuries, experience with reading recent art criticism and art theory, graduation of the antecedent class Theory and Art in the 20th Century I.
Co-requisites
Not applicable.
Recommended optional programme components
Not applicable.
Recommended or required reading
Miroslav PETŘÍČEK, Úvod do současné filosofie, Praha: Herrmann & synové 1997
Konrad Paul LIESSMANN, Filozofie moderního umění, Olomouc: Votobia 2000
Hal FOSTER – Rosalind KRAUSSOVÁ – Yve-Alain BOIS – Benjamin H. D. BUCHLOH, Umění po roce 1900. Modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus, Praha: Slovart 2007
Wolfgang JANKE, Filosofie existence, Praha: Mladá fronta 1995
Josef FULKA, Psychoanalýza a francouzské myšlení, Praha: Herrmann & synové 2008
Tomáš POSPISZYL, Před obrazem. Antologie americké výtvarné teorie a kritiky, Praha: OSVU 1998
Jean-François LYOTARD, O postmodernismu (Postmoderno vysvětlované dětem, Postmoderní situace), Praha: Filosofický ústav AV ČR 1993
Wolfgang WELSCH, Naše postmoderní moderna, Praha: Zvon 1994
Manfred FRANK, Co je neostrukturalismus?, Praha: Sofis 2000
Ladislav KESNER, Vizuální teorie. Současné anglo-americké myšlení o výtvarných dílech¸ Jinočany: H&H 2005.
Terrence HAWKES, Strukturalismus a sémiotika, Brno: Host 1999
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The classwork is based on the combination of lectures, aimed at the general introducing of a topic, with collective reading of short theoretical texts.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Work placements
Not applicable.
Course curriculum
1. Phenomenology, fundamental onthology and hermeneutics (Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer)
2. Existentialism
3. Structuralism. Its basic concepts and methods. From Saussure to Levi-Strauss.
4. Western marxism. Frankfurt school of critical theory. Althusser.
5. Analytical philosophy. Frege, Wittgenstein, Austin
6. Poststructuralism in pschoanalysis and in the theory of literature. Lacan, Barthes
7. Foucault
8. Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Baudrillard
9. Pheminism in theory. From Simone de Beauvoir to Judith Butler
10. Postmodernism. Lyotard. Postmodernism in the theory of architecture (Jencks, Venturi) and in the art criticism (October).
11. Postmarxism and critique of postmodernism. Jameson, Laclau, Mouffe, Ranciere, Žižek, Badiou.
Aims
The goal of the course lies in helping students to become qualified readers of contemporary theory (of art).
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Lectures are optional.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme Master's
branch APD , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch AGD1 , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch AGD2 , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch AM3 , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch AM1 , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch AS1 , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch AM2 , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch AS2 , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch AKG , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch AFO , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch AEN , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch AIN , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch AVI , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch AMU , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch ATD , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
branch APE , 2. year of study, winter semester, 3 credits, compulsory
Type of course unit
eLearning
eLearning: currently opened course