Course detail

A Survey of Czech Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century

FaVU-1CU20-LAcad. year: 2010/2011

Overview of art styles, personalities and tendencies in painting and sculpture in the Czech lands in the 20th century. The attention is paid to the phenomena which incorporate or follow expressionism, cubism, surrealism, abstraction, as well as to the transformations in the landscape painting and to period decorativeness or retrograde tendencies.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Pavel Ondračka

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Basic phenomenons and personalities of the Czech XXth Century Art.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of the history of the Czech coutries and their culture.

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

Credit is awarded for the passed test on basic phenomena and personalities of the given period.
Exam: interview (oral exam) reflecting unmarked pictorial material which students ought to categorize, characterize and - if possible - specify other artworks of the given artist.

Course curriculum

1. Czech art of the 1940s and 1950s
2. Styles in the 1950s and 1960s, modernism, informel, concretism, new figuration
3. 1970s and 1980s

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Orientation in the basic phenomena and creative persons of the arts in Czech Countries.

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

Lecures are optional.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Dějiny českého výtvarného umění V. (1939 - 1958) , Academia 2006
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění VI. (1958 - 2000), Academia 2007
Nová encylopedie českého výtvarného umění, Praha 1995
Petr Wittlich, České sochařství ve 20.století : 1890-1945, Praha 1978
Adriana Primusová, Marie Klimešová, 1952-Skupina Máj 57, úsilí o uměleckou svobodu na přelomu 50. a 60. let, Praha 2007

Recommended reading

František Šmejkal, České imaginativní umění, Rudolfinum 1996
František Šmejkal, Skupina Ra, GHMP 1988
Eva Petrová a kol., Skupina 42, GHMP - Akropolis 1998
Ohniska znovuzrození. České umění 1956-1963 (ed. M. Judlová), GHMP - ÚDU AVČR 1994
Český informel (ed. M. Nešlehová), GHMP 1991
Mahulena Nešlehová, Poselství jiného výrazu. Pojetí "informelu" v českém umění 50. a prví poloviny 60. let, 1997
Jaroslav Sekera, Josef Hlaváček, Poesie racionality. Konstruktivní tendence v českém výtvarném umění 60. let, ČMVU 1994
Luděk Novák, Nová figurace, 1970.
Eva Petrová, Nová figurace, GVU Litoměřice 1993
Akce, slovo, pohyb, prostor (ed. V. Havránek), GHMP 1999
Umění zastaveného času. Česká výtvarná scéna 1969-1985, ČMVU 1996
Jindřich Chalupecký, Nové umění v Čechách, Praha 1994
Vlastimi Tetiva, Miloslav Kounek, České malířství a sochařství 2.Pol.20. století, AJG1991
Jiří Šetlík, Šedá cihla 1978 - 1991, Klatovy - Klenová 1991
Jiří Olič,Tvrdohlaví 1987-1999, Silver Screen 1999
Josef Alan a kol., Alternativní kultura, Příběh české společnosti 1945 - 1989, Praha 2001

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch AEN , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AIN , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch APK , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AGD , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AGR , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AM2 , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AM3 , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AM1 , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AS2 , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AS1 , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AMU , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch APE , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AVI , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch ATD , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch APD , 3. year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

52 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Pavel Ondračka