Czech

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Students will be encouraged to interconnect issues in art with those of other disciplines (humanities). They will be encouraged to understand and analyse social phenomena and find new ources of inspiration for their artistic activieis on the border of art, sociology,and social critique.
I hope that students will also realize some practical outcomes of the course.

Familiarity with the form of thematic lectures.

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The basic method is a lecture, supplemented by a final discussion.
One lesson is devoted to a seminar that tries to explain some theoretical premises in an experimental way.
The supplementary methods are:
- a thematic excursion
- movie or video projection
- working with real materials, magazines, books, objects

The attendance at the lecture is not controlled. Students will receive credits and verbal evaluations on the basis of the submitted work, the assignment of which will follow from the content of the courses.

The Syllabus:
The Structure of the Course:
1. lectures, projections, presentations
- on the origin of pornography
- porn as the lacmus paper of feminist movements
- body art special - porn elements in art
- stereotype in pont - taboo in port, attempts at alternative approach
- visual art presentations: Erotická revue, Jindřich Štýrský, Toyen, Dalí, surealisté, Duchamp, Carolee Schneemann, Valie Export, Elke Krystufek, Jeff Koons, Bob Flanagan, Annie Sprinkle, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, BKS, Ondřej Brody…
2. Empirical part of the course>
- port materials presentation: the standard portn film, Annie Sprinkle's alternative production, cult porn film (Green door, Deep throat, Miss Jones)
A study visit of a sexshop and a nightclub, studying the presentation of sexuality, the design of such intimate experiences
3. possible practical approaches:
"Night Club" - spatial and action question
"Porn magazine" - the question of visual presentation and graphic design, "lying" and stylization of photography, visual strateies, text, poem, promotion in the public, distribution.

Not applicable.

The aim of the course is not to inform students on the topic dealing with the limits of the personal body. Since the topics is presented to artists, we expect that bew impulses will also come from the students.

The attendance at the lecture is not controlled.

Not applicable.

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Isabel Tang, Pornografie (CS)
Michel Foucault, Dějiny sexuality I., Herrmann, Praha 1999 (CS)
Tracey Warr, Amelia Jones, The Artist´s Body, Phaidon, London 2000 (EN)

Erotická Revue I.-III., Torst, Praha 2001 (CS)
Lynda Nead, Female Nude, Routledge, 1992 (EN)
Lynne segal, Mary McIntosh, Sex Exposed, Rutgers University Press, 1993 (EN)