History of Stage Design 1

Subject guarantor:

Vlasta KOUBSKÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Vlasta KOUBSKÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Introduction to the history of set-design on the European continent, its most important stages and influence on set-design in Bohemia. Acquainting students with the methods used in creating a stage space and elucidate their principles.

Mode of study:

Lectures on the work of the most important world and Czech set-designers. Sources of inspiration and relationships to European set-design.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Maturita exam, general pre-college knowledge of the history of the fine arts.

Recommended optional programme components:

Visits to contemporary productions and subsequent analysis from a scenic design viewpoint.

Course contents:

Lectures and classes with a presentation of the most significant set design work from the Baroque set design and costuming to the beginning of modern set design. A paper on a selected topic in the history of set design. Searching for souces of inspirations and contexts of set design.

1. Baroque stage design, Types of set design in the 19th century

2. Other Baroque theatres in Bohemia (a survey, characteristics, Valtice, Kačina, Mnichovo Hradiště, Náchod), Zámecke Divadlo in Litomyšl (J. Platzer)

3. Giuseppe Gallí-Bibiena and assoc., principles of illusory perspective scenery.

4. Český Krumlov, Johann Wetschel, Leo Merkel

5. Typcast set design of the 19th century. Quaglio, Brioschi-Burghardt-Katuský, The Russian Avant Garde, German Expressionism, Italian Futurism, Appia, Craig, Diagilev's ballets

Recommended or required reading:

Svět barokního divadla, Český Krumlov 2010, Oskar Schlemmer, Böblingen 1988

Die Russische Avantgarde und die Bühne 1890-1930, Schleswig 1991

Ribi H., E.G.Craig, Figur und Abstraktion, Basel 2000, Dějiny českého divadla III,IV.,Praha1983

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Excursion to the National Museum, Theatre Dept. depositary.

Excursion to the Bauhaus - Dessau school

Excursion to the Česky Krumlov Castle Theatre

Excursion to the Terezin Jewish Theatre in the Ghetto, Theatre in Terezin permanent exhibit.

Assessment methods and criteria:

75% attendance at lectures and classes, independent creation of the course paper and its presentation (approx. 10 pages of text), credit through an oral exam.

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Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Scénografie (Bc.) (compulsory subject)