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Contemporary Czech and International Art
FaVU-1CSUAcad. year: 2018/2019
A survey course about the chief tendencies in art after 1990. The overview of international art will be selective. The main focus of the lectures will be that on Czech art in wider context (the fall of the Iron curtain, the strengthening of globalization tendencies). Czech art will be also explored from the point of view of the local art institution developmnet (the relationship of Prague vs the regions, some important curators, gallery activities).
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2. Art of the Latin America. The 1960s and 1970s: from the abstraction towards an engaged art: Lygia Pape, Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Cildo Meireles, Rosario Group. 1980s and 1990s: Gabriel Orozco, Felix Gonzales Torres, Minerva Cuevas, Francis Alys, Santiago Sierra, Alfredo Jaar.
3. Social turn in the contemporary art. Projects based on the addressing political and social issues, and employing participation of the viewer who become collaborators. The main representatives of this tendency.
4. Institutional structure of the Czech art after 1990: museums of art, galleries, foundations, prizes, art schools, art magazines. Local Czech artistic scene versus contemporary international art.
5. De-politization, re-politization. Two tendencies in Czech art of the 90s. Reverbation of the trancendetal tendencies in art. The critical and curating activities of the Ševčíks. Art activism at the beginning of the millenium (Pode Bal, Rafani, Jan Jakub Kotík, Guma Guar).
6. The "insiders" generation. Sentivity, decency, social issues, DIY aesthetics, local-specific art.
7. Czech painting since 1990s, artists, the debate on painting. Survey collective exhibitions supporting the medim. Collecting.
8. Photography in the contemporary Czech art: artist, curators.
9. Czech (neo)conceptual art of the late 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century.
10. "Regional art scenes" - Ostrava, Ústí nad Labem. Art in the country.
11. The art scene in Brno since 1980s.
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Basic literature
Kolektiv autorů, Dějiny českého výtvarného umění VI (1958 – 2000), svazek 2. Praha: Academia, 2007. (CS)
Recommended reading
MORGANOVÁ, Pavlína (ed.), Začátek století, Plzeň - Řevnice: Západočeská galerie v Plzni - Arbor vitae, 2012. (CS)
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- Programme Bachelor's
branch AVI , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch AEN , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch AS2 , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch AM3 , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch AM2 , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch ATD , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch APD , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch AIN , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch AGD2 , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch APE , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch AS1 , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch AGD1 , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch AFO , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch AM1 , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch AMU , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch AKG , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory