History of Stage and Costume Design 2

Subject guarantor:

Vlasta KOUBSKÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Vlasta KOUBSKÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

To introduce students to the history of costuming design and set-design in the Czech lands, their most important stages and relations to European costuming design and set-design. To acquaint students with the methods used in the creation of modern theatre costuming and setting space and clarify their principles.

Mode of study:

Lectures on samples of the work of the most significant Czech costumming artist and set-designers, Sources of inspiration and relationships to European set-design and costuming.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

DSK1 lectures.

Recommended optional programme components:

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

Course contents:

Lectures and classes with presentations of the most important costuming and set-design works of the Czech Theatre avant garde of the 1920s and 30s. A course paper on a selected topic in the history of avant garde set-design. Searching for sources of inspiration and contexts of set-design.

- The start of Czech modern set-design and costuming.

- Modern Czech theatre costuming / inter-war yars - Zelenka, Feuerstein, Hrska, Čapek, Hofman, Kroha, Jirsiková, Muzika, etc.

- Czech theatre costuming - post-war years - Adof Wenig, Karel Svolinský, Josef Jelínek, Jan Kropáček, Zdeněk Seydl, etc.0

- Vlastislav Hosfman and the beginnings of Czech Theatre expressionism.

- Josef Čapek - relationship of painting and set-design

- František Troester - stage urbanism and imagination

- Theatregrapf, D 34, E.F: Burian, Laterna Magika - stage and film

- Alexandr Vladimír Hrska and Antonín Heythum

- František Zelenka - pre-war activity and Terezín

- Bedřich Feuerstein - Purism or Surrealism

- František Muzika - Poetic Surrealism

- Karel Svolinský, Jiří Trnka, František Tichý as Scenographers

- Josef Svoboda and new stage technology.

Recommended or required reading:

-Tröster F., Vachtová L., Lukeš M. - Costume on the Stage, Prague 1962

-Ptáčková V.: Česká scénografie XX.století,, Praha 1982

-Černý J. a kolektiv : Dějiny českého divadla, díl III, díl IV., Praha 1983

-Obst M., Scherl A. : K dějinám české divadelní avantgardy, Praha 1962

-Píša A.M. Divadelní avantgarda, Praha 1978

-Monografie jednotlivých scénografů

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Visits to fine arts exhibits with an emphasis on clothing and and costuming creations. Excursions to the National Museum, Theatre Dept. costume depository.

Assessment methods and criteria:

75% attendance at lectures and classes, independent creation of the course paper and its presentation (approx. 10 pages of text), final test or 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 - kostým a maska (Mgr.) (compulsory subject)