History of Stage and Costume Design 1

Subject guarantor:

Vlasta KOUBSKÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Vlasta KOUBSKÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

To introduce students to the history of costuming and set-design on the European continent, its most important stages and influence on set-design in the Czech Republic. To acquaint students with methods which are used in creation of a setting space and costuming and clarify their principles.

Mode of study:

Lectures on samples of the work of the most significant world and Czech costumming artist and 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 presentations of the most important costuming and set design works from the Baroque set design and costuming artists to the beginning of modern set design. A course paper on a selected topic in the history of set design. Searching for sources of inspiration and contexts of set design.

- Baroque costuming and set design

- Costuming and set design types of the 19th century

- Other Baroque theatres in Bohemia (survey, characteristics, Valtice, Kačina, Mnichovo Hradiště, Náchod), Zámecké theatre in Litomyšl (J. Platzer)

- Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena and co., principles of illusion perspective setting

- Zámecké Theatre in Český Krumlov (Johann Wetschel, Leo Merkel)

- Scene types of the 19th century / quaglio, Brioschi-Burghardt-Kautsky. Moessner/Karel Štapfer - stage realistic illusionism, František Kolár, Josef Macourek, Robert Holzer

- Entrance of modern artistic directions in costuming and set design

- Modern theatre costuming and set design - Bauhaus, Russian Avant garde, German Expressionism, Italian Futurism, Appia, Craig, Diagelev's ballets.

Recommended or required reading:

Oskar Schlemmer, Böblingen 1988

El Teatro de los Pintores, Madrid 2000

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

Le Danza delle Avanguardie, Milano 2005

Ribi H., E.G.Craig, Figur und Abstraktion, Basel 2000

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Analysis of contemporary productions from the viewpoint of knowledge of traditional scenic design methods. Practical application of trade terminology. Visits to exhibitions and subsequent classes on methods applied in fine arts exhibitions (exhibition content, scientific contributions, exhibition critique, architectural treatment, graphics, lighting, etc.)

Assessment methods and criteria:

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

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri	místnost S201 Hallerův sál (Karlova 26, Praha 1) KOUBSKÁ V. 08:30–10:00 (přednášková par. 1)

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Fri	08:30–10:00	KOUBSKÁ V.	Hallerův sál Karlova 26, Praha 1		přednášková par. 1

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Stage Design - Costumes and Masks (M.A.) (compulsory subject)