Czech

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Students will have a basic overview of artistic institutions, key figures and their work; they will be able to attribute key artistic works and they will be able to characterize artistic programs and groups of European and North-American modernism between 1900 to 1930.

Basic knowledge of general history and cultural history.

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Lectures accompanied with slides of reproductions of the key works are supported with class discussions.

Test.

1. Fathers of Modern Thinking: Darwin, Nietsche, Marx, Freud and the visual arts
2. Secession: Revolting artistic groups and modernism at academis: Vienna, Berlin, Munich
4. Artist, production, buyer: Arts and Crafts, Wiener Werkstätte, Deutscher Werkbund
5. Manifestos of expressionism: Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter, theosofy and visual arts
6. Cubism: Picasso, Braque, Gleizes, Gris, Léger; cubist scuplture (Lipschitz, Zadkinw, Brancusi), architecture and design
7. Roots of abstraction: Kandinski, Delauny, Duchamp, Kupka
8. World Fairs I.: 1904 St. Louis, 1905 Liége, 1913 Ghent, 1915 Panama-Pacific
9. American Dream: Modernism (O’Keeffe, Hartley) vs. realism (Wood, Hopper), Harlem Renaissance, Federal Art Project
10. Italian futurism: Marinetti, Boccioni, Balla, Marey
11. Bauhaus in Wiemar: Gropius, Klee, Desbourg, Kandinski
12. Avant-garde and ideology I.: Malevic, Kandinski, Lissitsky, Tatlin, socialist classicism

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The aim of the course is to present major figures, artistic works, artistic groups, programs and institutions of European and North-American art between 1900 to 1930, to present contemporary way of thinking and characterize contemporary texts and manifestos.

Attendance compulsory.

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Clark, T. J., Farewell to an Idea. Episodes from a History of Modernism. New Haven a London 1999 (CS)
Fiedler, J.; Ackermann, U., Bauhaus, Kolín n. Rýnem 2006 (CS)
Foster, H.; Krauss R.; Bois, Y.-A.; Buchloh B. H. D., Umění po roce 1900, Praha 2007 (CS)
Gobrich, E., Příběh umění, Praha, 1992. (CS)
Haas, F., Architektura 20. století. Praha 1978 (CS)
Halada, J.; Hlavačka, M., Světové výstavy : od Londýna 1851 po Hannover 2000, Praha 2000 (CS)
Harrison, Ch.; Wood, P. (eds.), Art in theory, 1900-2000: An anthology of changing ideas. Malden 2003 (CS)
Krauss,R., The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. Cambridge, Mass. 1985 (CS)
Lamač, M., Myšlenky moderních malířů. Praha 1989 (CS)
Schapiro, M., Modern Art. 19th&20th Centuries. New York 1968 (CS)
Wittlich, P., Umění nové doby: Doba secese, Praha 1987 (CS)

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