Atelier with Štěpán Grygar 4

Subject guarantor:

Štěpán GRYGAR

Name of lecturer(s):

Štěpán GRYGAR

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The aim of the photography studio is to maximally support the creative abilities of the students with a focus on conceptual work. Presumed is working in the context of modern art without limiting factors.

Mode of study:

Analýza konkrétních cvičení, promítání prací, jež mají souvislost s tématem,

samostatná tvůrčí práce

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

General knowledge of visual art and photography

General knowledge of modern visual arts theory

Analytical abilities

Creativity

Recommended optional programme components:

Žádné další nepovinné vzdělávací složky.

Course contents:

3. STUDIO OF CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Lecturer: Štěpán Grygar

Contact: 732 661 938, grygar@famu.cz

Course Description:

I stress the importance of a critical distance from one's own work that results in its classification within a wider context. The Studio consists of theoretical seminars, consultations of final exhibition, bachelor's, and master's studies.

Assignment: (4P1, 5P1)

To create a series of photographs as an individual interpretation of specific theme (not mere illustration). Two themes will be announced in the beginning of semester.

Time schedule: WS: Brief, written explanation and consultations within winter semester. One series must be finished by the end of the winter semester.

SS: Brief, written explanation and consultations within summer semester. The series must be finished by the end of the summer semester.

Recommended or required reading:

Alberro, Alexander - Norvell, Patricia (ed.): Recording Conceptual Art, Berkeley,

Los Angeles a London: University of California Press, 2001

Alberro, Alexander, Sabeth Buchmann: Art After ConceptualArt, MIT Press,

Cambridge and London, 2006

Fried Michael: Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before, Yale University

Press, New Haven 2008

Bourriaud, Nicolas: Postprodukce, Praha: Tranzit, 2004

Bourriaud, Nicolas: Relational Aesthetics, Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2002

Cotton Charlotte: The Photography as Contemporary Art, London, Thames

Hudson, 2004

Císař, Karel (ed): Co je to fotografie? Herrmann a synové, Praha 2004

Foster, Hal (ed): Postmodern Culture, London: Pluto Press, 1990

Foster, Hal; Krauss, Rosalind; Bois, Yves-Alain; Buchloh, Benjamin H.D.: Art

since 1900, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004

Michel Frizot: Nouvelle Histoire de la Photographie, Larousse-Bordas, Paris,

1996

Grygar Štěpán, Konceptuální umění a fotografie, Praha, AMU, 2004

Petříček Miroslav: Myšlení obrazem, Herrmann a synové, Praha 2009

Silverio, Robert: Postmoderní fotografie, Praha: AMU, 2007

Liz Wells. The Photography Reader, Routledge, London, 2003

Wall, Jeff: Selected Essays and Interviews, New York: The Museum of Modern

Art, 2007

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Assessment methods and criteria:

Grading:

Graded credit: granted on the basis of submission of all prescribed assignments and evaluation of submitted photographs. The basic pre-requisites for grading are the student's participation within at least 60% of the lectures, participation in posted mandatory joint consultations specified in the beginning of the course, as well as the submission of agreed on photographs in digital form - resolution 300 dpi with the length of the longer side of the format being 210mm.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Photography CZ - Bachelor (qualification subject)