Art History

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
307EART credit 2 24 seminar hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 32 to 42 hours of self-study English summer

Subject guarantor

Name of lecturer(s)

Department

The subject provides Department of Photography

Contents

The course offers a basic orientation in art history with an emphasis on the local context in its international and global context. Teaching is based on direct contact with works of art in the form of excursions to exhibitions of the National Gallery Prague, where expert interpretation is provided by the staff there. The geographic and chronological scope of the course is partly defined by what is represented in the NGP collections. Seminars led by the guarantor are then used to reflect on the acquired knowledge and to add contexts or themes that are not represented in the exhibitions themselves.

  1. Introductory lesson
  2. Medieval Art in Bohemia and Central Europe 1200-1550
  3. Old Masters I
  4. Old Masters II
  5. Seminar Meeting I
  6. The Art of Asia Across Space and Time

7. 1796-1918: Art of the Long Century (Romanticism)

8. 1796-1918: Art of the Long Century (the beginnings of modern art)

  1. Seminar Meeting II

10. 1918-1938: The First Republic

11. 1939-2021: The End of the Black and White Era

  1. Seminar Meeting III

Learning outcomes

The student is oriented in the history of European art.

The learner is oriented to the nature of local art historical collections.

The learner understands the transregional, international and global contexts of local art historical development.

Learners understand the role that artefacts themselves play within art historical enquiry.

Prerequisites and other requirements

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Literature

Filipová, Marta. Modernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art. London: Routledge, 2020.

Hánová, Markéta, ed. The Art of Asia Across Space and Time. Prague: National Gallery Prague, 2024.

Honour, Hugh, and John Fleming. A World History of Art. 7th rev. ed. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2009.

Petrasová, Taťána, and Rostislav Švácha, eds. Art in the Czech Lands 800–2000. Prague: Artefactum & Arbor vitae, 2017.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Regular attendance (min. 75%), active participation in the discussion.

Note

The teaching will be carried out in cooperation with the professional staff of the National Gallery Prague.

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans