History of Stage and Costume 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 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.

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

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.

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