History of Arts for Students of Dance 2

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Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
107HOA2	credit	2	1 lecture hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 40 to 50 hours of self-study	English	summer

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The course takes the form of an overview lecture dealing with the context of art and culture and the development of art in individual periods. It does not aim at an exhaustive factual coverage of the subject matter; the emphasis is on concepts, theoretical/thought contexts, and characteristic features. In the second block, the interpretation proceeds through the various periods of the modern period and follows selected themes connecting the sphere of art with more general social and cultural phenomena.

The aim of the study is to provide students with knowledge of the place of art in human/European culture, its social context, an overview of the changes in its conceptualization, and the interrelationships between the different types of art.

Thematic areas:

Art of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, Baroque in art and architecture, Dutch painting; Nicolas Poussin: Rinaldo and Armida and Rembrandt van Rijn: King David's Atonement with his sinful son Absalom - comparison of artistic concepts and means;
Art between religion and science: 18th century rationalism, Enlightenment, Encyclopedism; Classicism, sentimentalism and pre-Romanticism; 18th century art literature and its themes; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang: The Sorrows of Young Werther;
Art and society in the 19th century; cosmopolitanism and racism, savages and Europeans - art of savages in the eyes of Europeans, evolutionism and art;
The Art of Modernism - aura and technical reproducibility, human mass; the formation of modernism in the 19th century, philosophical and spiritual foundations (Nietzsche, Bergson, Husserl, Spengler, Worringer, etc.), the artist and art versus everyday life, artistic utopias, art-civilization-nature; artistic movements of modernism;
Responsibility of art and World War II - Adorno. The beginning of the end of the modern concept of art - existentialism, aleatorics, etc. Postmodern art. Umberto Eco and The Name of the Rose. Tendencies of contemporary art.

Learning outcomes

Gaining knowledge, connecting historical information and theoretical concepts, developing critical thinking and reading skills.

Prerequisites and other requirements

none

Literature

File of presentations for individual lectures with links to image and video material.

Required reading:

BENJAMIN, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Lulu.com, 2021. ISBN 978-1667156071.

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang. Sorrows of Young Werther. Dover Publications, 2002. ISBN 978-0486424552.

GOMBRICH, Ernst Hans. The Story of Art. Phaidon Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0714832470.

NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy. Penguin Classics, 1994. ISBN ‎ 978-0140433395.

SPARTI, Barbara et al. Imaging Dance: visual representations of dancers and dancing. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms, 2011. ISBN 978-3-487-14549-5.

Evaluation methods and criteria

The credit test covers the content of the lectures History of Art for Dance 1 and 2 (answers in own formulations), 66% of the maximum number of points is required for successful completion.

Other requirements: 75% attendance.

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans

Dance Pedagogy (BA) - Methods of Classical Ballet Technique - from 2023/24 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
Dance Pedagogy (BA) - Methods of Modern and Contemporary Dance - from 2023/24 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
Dance Pedagogy (BA) - Methods of Folk Dance - from 2023/24 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)