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

Basic knowledge of history of modernity and modern culture.

Not applicable.

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

Written exam - test.

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

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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.

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)
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)

Not applicable.