History of Stage Design 2

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

Mode of study:

Lectures on the work of the most important world and Czech set-designers. Sources of inspiration and relationships to European set-design.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

203DS1 lectures.

Course contents:

Lectures and classes with presentations of the most important set design work of the Czech theatre avant garde of the 1920s and 30s. A course paper on a chosen topic in the history of avant garde set design. Searching for sources of inspiration and contexts of set design

- Vlastislav Hofman and the beginnings of Czech theatre expressionism

- Josef Čapek

- František Troester

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

- Alexandr Vladimír Hrska and Antonín Heythum

- František Zelenka - prewar activity and Terezín

- Bedřich Feuerstein - pursim or surrealism

- František Muzika - poetic surrealism

- Karel Svolinský, Jiří Trnka, František Tichý as set designers

- Josef Svoboda and new stage technology

Recommended or required reading:

-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

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.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2016/2017:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2016/2017:

	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

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Stage Design (B.A.) (compulsory subject)