Course detail

Overview of the 20th Century World Art History between 1900–1945 2

FaVU-1SDU-LAcad. year: 2019/2020

The course introduces basic concepts, ideas, programs, artistic exchange and political, social and economic conditions to the artistic work between 1900–1945. The course includes all media: painting, sculpture, photography, installation and typography. The lectures address critical issues of the role of institutions such as academies, artistic groups and collectives, museums and galleries and artistic criticism as well. The course includes critical approaches to issues like social and gender equality, national and racial politics from the post-colonialist and feminist view point. Students will be able to critically think about Early Modern Art and they will be able to use proper terms and concepts.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

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, North-American and Latin-American modernism between 1925 to 1940.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of history of modernity and modern culture.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Written exam - test.

Course curriculum

1. Bauhaus: Dessau (Mies, Breuer, Reich)
2. Avant-garde and ideology II.: Degenerate Art, Speer, Breker, Bauhaus: Berlin
3. World Fairs II.: 1933 Chicago, 1937 Paris, 1939 New York
4. Art of Non-sense: Schwitters, Ernst, Ray
5. Marcel Duchamp
6. Surrealist Manifesto: Breton, Ernst, Dalí; Chagall, Modigliani; Chirico
7. Hollywood forms: Art Deco, Lempicka, visual arts and film industry
8. Architecture and Design: Wright, Loos, Le Corbusier, Mies
9. Latin American Art: Rivera, Kahlo
10. Moder Photography: Day, Käsebier, Coburn, Stieglitz, Moholy-Nagy, Keppler, Hine, Lange, Ray
11. Rise of a modern museum: Barr a MoMA, Guggenheim and speculative iconoclasm
12. End of History: Modern Art and migration

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course is to present major figures, artistic works, artistic groups, programs and institutions of European, North-American and Latin-American art between 1925 to 1945, to present contemporary way of thinking and characterize contemporary texts and manifestos.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance compulsory.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

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)
Gombrich, 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)
Johnson, W., S.: Dějiny fotografie, Praha 2001 (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)
Levine, N., Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Princeton 1997 (CS)
Masheck, J., Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture, New York 2013 (CS)
Schapiro, M., Modern Art. 19th&20th Centuries. New York 1968 (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUB Bachelor's

    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer