Introduction to Fine Arts 2

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Subject guarantor:

Tomáš POSPISZYL

Name of lecturer(s):

Tomáš POSPISZYL

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The aim of the course is not only to provide a basic image of the development of visual culture from the beginning to the present and an overall total of works and style attributes, which is an expression of our collective visual memory but, as well, to give and cultivate the instruments for understanding and comprehending historical,visual artifacts, their contemporary relations and contexts. This course offers an overview of basic concepts and historical changes in visual culture, its social and technological aspects. A particular emphasis will be on the relationship of graphic arts and film.

Mode of study:

Lecture and screenings

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

This course requires a basic knowledge in the history of art and cultural history of Europe and a visual sensitivity required of FAMU students.

Completion of Introduction to Fine Arts 1 is recommended.

Course contents:

Summers semester:

14: Characteristics of modern civilization and modern art. Capitalism, reproduction and commodification of art, short-term exhibit institutions.

15. Modern image technology and graphic arts: photography and impressionsim. František Kupka and chrono-photography, cubism and film Zdeněk Pešánek.

16. Historical avant-garde, idea of originality and linking art and live. The new man and modernistic utopias. Totalitarian state and art.

17. The status of the artist in the modern era, the public role of the artist (political avant-garde), Marcel Duchamp. Artist-celebrity, personal mythology, death of the artist, relationship aesthetics.

18. Media specificities in modernism. Walter Benjamin, formalistic modernism.

19. Art after WWII, Primitivism and neo-avant-garde. New Realism, situationists, environments and happenings, their relation to experimental film.

20. Fluxus and the concept of intermedia. transistion among media, concept of re-mediation; What is new media? (Lev Manovic).

21. Videoart and the art of the moving image. Relation to the film tradition, expanded cinema. The main representatives and technical devices after 1990.

22. Conceptual and post-conceptual art. Genesis and definition of the concept, selected representatives, expression devices: object, text, photography, film

23. Post-modernism, concept definition. Its forms and topics in the arts.

24. Identity and gender roles in art. Context and history of feminisim and its impace on art.

25. Ascent of contemporary art, differences from modern art. Speculative reverse, repolitization, the art of collaboration, influence of modern media and the internet.

Recommended or required reading:

Required:

Walter Benjamin, Umělecké dílo ve věku své technické reprodukovatelnosti, in: Walter Benjamin, Literárněvědné studie, Oikoymenh, Praha 2009, str. 299 - 326.

Clement Greenberg, Avantgarda a kýč. In: Revue Labyrint, číslo 7 - 8, Praha 2000, str. 69 - 74.

Guy Debord, Zpráva o konstrukci situací a o podmínkách organizace a působení mezinárodní situacionistické tendence. In: Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny, 4-5/2008, str. 7 - 30.

Generally recommended:

Amy Dempseyová, Umělecké styly, školy a hnutí, nakladatelství Slovart, Praha 2002.

hal foster, Rosalind Kraussová, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin Buchloh, Umění po roce 1900, Slovart 2007

Richard Osborne, Dan Strugis, Natalie Turner, Teorie umění, Portál, Praha 2008

Miroslav Lamač (ed.), Myšlenky moderních malířů, Odeon, Praha 1989.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Written test based on the material given in the course syllabus.

Course web page:

Note:

none

Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2017/2018:

	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	room 107 Room No. 1 (Lažanský palác) POSPISZYL T. 15:40–17:15 (přednášková par. 1)
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Thu	15:40–17:15	Tomáš POSPISZYL	Room No. 1 Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Audiovisual Studies - Bachelor - 1718 (required subject, required optional subject, optional subject)
• Audiovisual Studies - Bachelor - 1718- 3y (required subject, required optional subject, optional subject)