Course detail

Master's State Examination Seminar 1

FaVU-CPZZ-IAcad. year: 2019/2020

The first of three seminars serving students as a support in preparing for the theoretical part of the Master's State Final Exam. The content of this seminar is based on the recommended study literature on the thematic areas of the final state examinations no. 1 to no. 10. At the beginning of the semester, thematic areas are divided among the students. There will be two student presentations in each seminar – each will introduce one selected text.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will get acquainted with the selected study literature in more detail, and they will gain the basis for individual preparation for the final state examination. Those presenting in a seminar will strengthen their competences in the field of research and the subsequent structuring of information into a time-limited presentation and gain more confidence in the presentation. Others will strengthen their skills in working with literature.

Prerequisites

Good knowledge of history of modern and contemporary art; critical reading skills.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

This course is based on an active learning method in which students depart from the passive role of content recipients. Teachers' role is coordinating (assignment tasks), but of course also tuition – s/he corrects potential deficiencies in presentations, and in short, controlled discussions at the end of the presentations, students are directed to other appropriate sources of information.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The credit is awarded on the basis of attendance (80 %]. Another requirement for the credit is either a presentation at a seminar or a written summary of one selected text from the state exam circuits discussed in the given semester.

Course curriculum

1. Visual Culture.
2. Art and critique of ideology.
3. Global art world and identity politics.
4. Art and psychoanalysis.
5. Representations of body in the art of the 2nd half of the 20th century.
6. Postmodernism in thinking and in art.
7. Art beyond the gallery walls.
8. Art as institution.
9. Curating and the gallery business.
10. Installation as an artistic strategy / installation as medium.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course is to make students acquainted with selected texts of recommended literature, which serve as study support in the preparation for state final examination.

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

Compulsory attendance (3 absences accepted).

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Marita STURKEN – Lisa CARTWRIGHT, Studia vizuální kultury, Praha: Portál, 2009. (CS)
Yve-Alain BOIS – Benjamin Buchloh – Hal FOSTER – Rosalind KRAUSSOVÁ, Umění po roce 1900, Praha: Slovart, 2007. (CS)
Pavel BARŠA, Panství člověka a touha ženy: feminismus mezi psychoanalýzou a poststrukturalismem, Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2002. (CS)
Helena BENDOVÁ – Matěj STRNAD (eds.), Společenské vědy a audiovize, Praha: NAMU, 2014. (CS)
Fredric JAMESON, Postmodernismus neboli Kulturní logika pozdního kapitalismu, Praha: Rybka Publishers, 2016. (CS)
Paul O’NEILL, The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), The MIT Press, 2012. (CS)
Denis CIPORANOV –Tomáš KULKA (eds.), Co je umění? Texty angloamerické estetiky 20. století, Červený Kostelec: Mervart, 2010. (CS)
Hal FOSTER, „Co je nového na neoavantgardě?“, Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny, roč. 4, 2010, č. 8, s. 58–84. (CS)
Pavel ZAHRÁDKA (ed.), Estetika na přelomu milénia. Vybrané problémy současné estetiky, Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2010. (CS)
Martina PACHMANOVÁ (ed.), Neviditelná žena. Antologie současného amerického myšlení o feminismu, dějinách a vizualitě, Praha: One Woman Press, 2002. (CS)
Jean-François LYOTARD, O postmodernismu (Postmoderno vysvětlované dětem; Postmoderní situace), Praha: Filosofický ústav AVČR 1993. (CS)

Recommended reading

Marta FILIPOVÁ – Matthew RAMPLEY (eds.), Možnosti vizuálních studií: obrazy, texty, interpretace, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Seminář dějin umění, 2007. (CS)
Nicolas MIRZOEFF, Úvod do vizuální kultury, Praha: Academia, 2012. (CS)
Anour ABDEL–MALEK – Chinua ACHEBE – Aimé CÉSAIRE – Achille MBEMBE – Edward W. SAID – Ngũgĩ WA THIONGʼO, Postkoloniální myšlení II, Praha: tranzit.cz, 2011. (CS)
Karel CÍSAŘ (ed.), Sochy v ulicích III. Stav věcí, Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 2012. (CS)
Hans Ulrich OBRIST, Stručná historie kurátorství, Kutná Hora: Galerie Středočeského kraje, 2012. (CS)
David KORECKÝ (ed.), Médium kurátor: role kurátora v současném českém umění, Praha: Agite/Fra, 2009. (CS)
Claire BISHOP, Installation Art, London: Tate Publishing, 2011. (EN)
Jakub STEJSKAL, „Umění, ideologie a estetika“, in: Pavel ZAHRÁDKA (ed.), Estetika na přelomu milénia, Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2010. (CS)
Josef FULKA, Psychoanalýza a francouzské myšlení, Praha: Herrmann & synové, 2008 (část I). (CS)
Wolfgang WELSCH, Naše postmoderní moderna, Praha: Zvon, 1994. (CS)
Rosalind KRAUSS, „Sochařství v rozšířeném poli“, in: Karel CÍSAŘ (ed.), Sochy v ulicích III. Sochy v ulicích, Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 2012, s. 130–143. (CS)
Karsten SCHUBERT, The Curator’s Egg, Londýn: Ridinghouse, 2009. (EN)
Bojana PEJIĆ (ed.), Gender check: A reader. Art and Theory in Eastern Europe. Kolín nad Rýnem: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUM Master's

    branch VU-D , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-D , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-D , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer