Czech

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After attending the course, students should be able to comparatively reflect the events of 1960s - 80s in relation with inner cultural politics and the situation abroad. They should be able to critically assess the background and quality scale of art production of the aforementioned decades.

Students have to have basic knowledge of international and Czech art history.

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Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Exam.

1960s = / from abstraction to figuration
informel and abstraction of 1960s vs. international trends
marginal cultures, happenings, Knížák
the underground (Plastic People, DG 307, literature) vs. the outer world
film in the 60s
beyond context: what influenced my art: pop vs. the Academy in 1970s, the teachers
AVS, my service
architecture of the 60s
architecture of the 70s and 80s (Hotel Praha, TV tower, Ještěd)
Dílo - state network of commercial galleries, Artcentrum - state export of artists prohibited in Czechoslovakia
80s in Czechoslovakia vs. the world
art in public space (the underground, lobbies, sculptures at city council housing estates]
design
reflection of the 60s - 80s in contemporary art (A. Reyle, Klímová, Bystřický)

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The course will show the schizophrenia of the communist period manifested in art through the coexistence of cultural establishment on the one hand and outside influences on the other. The course teacher will present a personally modified vision of the three decades or art in Czechoslovakia in contrast with view from the outside (Western Europe). The aim of the course is to adumbrate the paralell existence of antagonist cultures: the official cultural production, the alternative scene, and the underground. All three modes of artistic production will be put int owider context.

Attendance at the lectures is voluntary, attendance at the seminars is mandatory.

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České umění 1939 - 1999, Programy a impulzy, Sborník sympozia, AVU Praha 2000
České umění 1938 - 1989, Programy, kritické texty, dokumenty, J.Ševčík, P.Morganová, D.Dušková, Academia, 2001
Umění radosti i boje, Vladimír Šolta, Odeon, Naše Vojsko, 1976
Ash Heap of History? Abbé Libansky, Impressum, Wien 2009
Art is Abstraction, Czech visual culture of the 60s, Zdenek Primus, Kant 2003
The sixties, Galerie Zlatá husa, 2004
Poselství jiného výrazu, Pojetí informelu v českém umění 50. a první poloviny 60.let, Mahulena Nešlehová, Base, Art et Fact 1997
Monografie: T.Pištěk, D.Chatrný, M.Knížák, Veselý, Brázda, Sýkora, Medek, Tvrdohlaví

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