History of Stage Design 1

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Subject guarantor:

Vlasta KOUBSKÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Vlasta KOUBSKÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

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

Mode of study:

Lectures on samples of work by the most important world theatre and film set-designers. Classes on searching for sources of inspiration and relations to European visual arts. Class work related to film set-design.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Bachelor's education at an arts oriented college. General history of fine arts.

Course contents:

Lecture and classes with a presentation of the most important set-design works from the Baroque set-design to the beginning s of modern set-design. A course paper on a selected topic from the history of set-design. Searching for sources of inspiration for film and TV set-design and relations in film and theatre set-design.

- Baroque costuming nad set-design

- Standard costuming and set-design of the 19th century.

- Types of Baroque theatre (common schools, religious congregations - Jesuit, court theatre, peasant or neighbourhood theatre, noble theatre) and its stage forms

- Other Baroque theatres in Bohemia (survey, characteristics, Valtice, Kačina, Mnichovo Hradiště, Náchod)

- Palace theatre in Litomyšl (J. Platzer)

- Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena and company, principles of illusion perspective scenery

- A brief history of the castle in Český Krumov

- A brief history of the Krumlov palace theatre

- Artists who created stages for palace theatre (Johann Wetschel, Leo Merkel)

- Standard stages of the 19th century / Quaglio, Brioschi-Burghardt-Kautský. Moessner/Karel Štapfer - realistic stage illusionism. František Kolár, Josef Macourek, Robert Holyer

- the turn of the 1920s, entrance of modern artistic directions in costuming and set design.

- modern theatre and set-design - Bauhaus, the Russian Avant-garde, German expressionism, Italian futurism, Appia, Craig, Diagilev'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

Thompsonová K., Bordwel D., Dějiny filmu, 2007

Plazewski J.: Dějiny filmu: 1895-2005 Academia 2009

Assessment methods and criteria:

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

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2015/2016:

	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
Wed
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	Vlasta KOUBSKÁ	Hallerův sál Karlova 26, Praha 1		přednášková par. 1

Schedule for summer semester 2015/2016:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Stage Design - Film and Television (M.A.) (compulsory subject)
• Stage Design (M.A.) (compulsory subject)