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Students will be able to distinguish between early manifestations of particular tendencies and their new formulation in postwar art. They will be able to see the differences between the central discourse of the western history of art and its regional alternatives.

Students must have an overall knowledge of art before 1945.

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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..

Written exam.

1. Artistic responses to WWII. Cold war, cultural imperialism. Abstract painting in the West vs. the doctrine of Socialist realism in the East. developmental lines of abstrac painting. Documenta Kassel 1955.
2. Black Mountain College ( john Cage), other artistic schools in the USA. the formation of the neoavantgarde. neodada. The interest in the quotidian. New Realism in Europe.
3. Artistic response to culture industry and popular (visual) culture. The Independent Group, Pop, its tradition into the 90s.
4. The various forms of "action art." Jackson Pollock and Gutai. Allan Kaprow and happenings. Yves Klein.The forms of performance and its periodical and local metamorphoses. (Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Richard Serra, Marina Abramovic…).
5. Minimalism and postminimalism. (Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Eva Hesse). Conceptual art in its historical phase (institutional critique, socially engaged forms of conceptualism.)
6. Site-specific art, public art, new genre public art - the forms of art in public space. Land art, its representants. (Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, Helen and Newton Harrison, Agnes Denes).
7. New media art. The beginnings of videoart. Experiments in Art and Technology. Art and TV. Digitalization. net art. New media art and institutions.
8. Photography in art. Conceptual art and photography. (Ed Ruscha, Ernd and Hilla Becher, Düsseldorf school, Gabriel Orozco…). "Monumental photography" – Andreas Gursky, Jeff Wall. Photography, subjectivity, identity (Cindy Shermann). Subjective archive - blog. Richter's Atlas, Wolfgang Tillmans.
9. Returns of figural painting. New figuration of 1960s, hyperrealism, neoexpressionism, Neue Wilde, Transavantguardia, postmodern painting, critical and historical painting.
10. Art of the former Eastern bloc countries. Sanja Ivekovic, Julius Koller, Stano Filko, Anatolij Osmolovsky, IRWIN, Zbigniew Libera, Krystof Wodiczko, Ilja Kabakov, Komar a Melamid, medhermeneutici, Nedko Solakov, Mladen Stilinovič
11. Art in Latin America - 1960s nad 70s. From abstraction to political art. Lygia Pape, Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Cildo Meireles, Rosario Group. 1980s and 90s: Gabriel Orozco, Jorge Pardo, Felix Gonzales Torres, Minerva Cuevas, Francis Alys, Santiago Sierra
12. African and Asian art. the postcolonialist effect.

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Students will acquire overall knowledge of art after 1945.

Attendance at lectures is not mandatory.

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Yves-Allan BOIS – Benjamin BUCHLOH – Hal FOSTER – Rosalind KRAUSSOVÁ, Umění po roce 1900, Praha: Slovart, 2007. (CS)

Kolektiv autorů, Dějiny umění / 12, Praha: Balios a Knižní klub, 2002. (CS)