History of Stage and Costume Design 2
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 203DSK2 | ZK | 4 | 2T | Czech | summer |
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
To introduce students to the history of costuming design and set-design in the Czech lands, their most important stages and relations to European costuming design and set-design. To acquaint students with the methods used in the creation of modern theatre costuming and setting space and clarify their principles.
Mode of study
Lectures on samples of the work of the most significant Czech costumming artist and set-designers, Sources of inspiration and relationships to European set-design and costuming.
Prerequisites and co-requisites
203DSK1 lectures.
Course contents
Lectures and classes with presentations of the most important costuming and set-design works of the Czech Theatre avant garde of the 1920s and 30s. A course paper on a selected topic in the history of avant garde set-design. Searching for sources of inspiration and contexts of set-design.
- The start of Czech modern set-design and costuming.
- Modern Czech theatre costuming / inter-war yars - Zelenka, Feuerstein, Hrska, Čapek, Hofman, Kroha, Jirsiková, Muzika, etc.
- Czech theatre costuming - post-war years - Adof Wenig, Karel Svolinský, Josef Jelínek, Jan Kropáček, Zdeněk Seydl, etc.
- Vlastislav Hosfman and the beginnings of Czech Theatre expressionism.
- Josef Čapek - relationship of painting and set-design.
- František Troester - stage urbanism and imagination.
- Theatregrapf, D 34, E.F: Burian, Laterna Magika - stage and film.
- Alexandr Vladimír Hrska and Antonín Heythum.
- František Zelenka - pre-war activity and Terezín.
- Bedřich Feuerstein - Purism or Surrealism.
- František Muzika - Poetic Surrealism.
- Karel Svolinský, Jiří Trnka, František Tichý as Scenographers.
- Josef Svoboda and new stage technology.
Recommended or required reading
Tröster F., Vachtová L., Lukeš M. - Costume on the Stage, Prague 1962
-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.
Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:
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Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:
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| Date | Day | Time | Tutor | Location | Notes | No. of paralel |
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| Fri | 13:00–14:00 | Vlasta KOUBSKÁ | Zasedací místnost Karlova 26, Praha 1 |
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The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Stage Design - Costumes and Masks (M.A.) (required subject)