Contemporary Photography and Arts 2

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Subject guarantor:

Tomáš DVOŘÁK, Václav JANOŠČÍK

Name of lecturer(s):

Tomáš DVOŘÁK, Václav JANOŠČÍK

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Introduction to contemporary tendencies in photography. Analysis of those tendencies.

Mode of study:

A lecture series with screenings. At lectures there will usually be one to two student presentations - see Grading Methods and Criteria

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Course contents:

Series of lectures with a focus on the tendencies in world photography after 1990. The lecture series continues the Pentium history of photography. A knowledge of tendencies in world photography is required. Traditional forms of documentary photography as well as staged photography, post-conceptual photography and photography combined with other media are covered.

Recommended or required reading:

Art Books and Monographies:

Araki by Araki: The Photographer's Personal Selection 1963-2002

Tina Barney Photographs: Theaters of Manners

Nancy Burson: Seeing and Believing: The Art of Nancy Burson

Jean-Marc Bustamante: Tableaux, 1978-1982

Sophie Calle: Did You See Me?

Luc Delahaye: Winterreise

Lucinda Devlin: The Omega Suites

Donna Ferrato: Living with the Enemy

Robert Frank: Moving Out

Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Andreas Gursky: Photographs from 1984 to the Present by Marie Luise Syring

Naoya Hatakeyama

Jenny Holzer

Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002

Brabara Kruger: Love for Sale

The Essential Duane Michals -- by Marco Livingstone

Boris Mikhailov: A Retrospective

Boris Mikhailov: Case History

Tracey Moffatt: laudanum

Tracey Moffatt

Mariko Mori by Mariko Mori, Lisa Corrin

Ryuji Miyamoto

Walter Niedermayr: Zivile Operationen/Civil Operations

Robert Polidori: Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl

Richard Prince by Jeff Rian, Rosetta Brooks

Richard Prince: Women

Arnulf Rainer: Retrospective 1948-2000

Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places : The Complete Works L. Tillman, S. Schmidt-Wulffen

Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects

Thomas Struth: 1977-2002 by Douglas Eklund

Hiroshi Sugimoto Portraits¨

Hiroshi Sugimoto Architecture of Time

Sam Taylor-Wood

Juergen Teller: Zwei Schäuferle mit Kloß und eine Kinderportion Schnitzel mit Pommes Frites

Juergen Teller: Märchenstüberl

Wolfgang Tillmans: Concorde

Wolfgang Tillmans : If One Thing Matters, Everything Matters

Jeff Wall by Thierry Duve

Theory literature:

Adam Brooks: Subjective Realities: The Refco Collection of Contemporary Photography

Victor Burgin: The End of Art Theory (Communications & Culture)

Victor Burgin: The End of Art Theory (Communications & Culture)

David Campany: Art and Photography

Noel Carroll: A Philosophy of Mass Art

Charlotte Cotton:

The Photograph as Contemporary Art

Umberto Eco: The Open Work

Umberto Eco: History of Beauty

Barbara Kruger: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

Warren Neidich: Blow-Up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain

Diane Neumaier , Anne Wilkes Tucker: Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies

Peter Osborne: Conceptual Art (Themes and Movements)

Peter Weiermair: The Measure of All Things: The Synthesis of Photography and Text in Contemporary Art

Liz Wells: The Photography Reader

Tracey Warr: The Artist's Body

Assessment methods and criteria:

In the Winter semester there is a presentation (approx. 15min.) of an artist, or issues in contemporary art and photography; and one reading (2-4 pages) presenting research for one's own creations, particularly from the perspective of contemporary art.

In the Summer semester there are two papers. The first a review (1 page) of a exhibition, project or selected magazine volume on contemporary art. The second is a theory essay (3-5 pages), whose aim is practice and trial in working with professional writings, citations and references

Course web page:

Note:

On alternate year for 2. and 3. class

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
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Fri	místnost 112 Učebna KF 112 (Lažanský palác) JANOŠČÍK V. 13:10–14:45 (přednášková par. 1)

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Fri	13:10–14:45	Václav JANOŠČÍK	Učebna KF 112 Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Photography EN - Bachelor (qualification subject)