Course detail

Race, Modern Art and Design

FaVU-2RMAD-SAcad. year: 2023/2024

The aim of the course is to present and discuss the methodological perspectives of ethnic and cultural minority art and the creation of the canon of modern / contemporary art / architecture, while introducing key figures, movements, places, exhibitions and texts that represented the emancipation of ethnic and cultural minorities in visual art / design.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Ladislav Jackson, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

No prerequisities.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Students will be assigned to present a paper (15 minutes) on a chosen topic at the end of the semester and they will submit its written version (5 norm pages at least).
In case of distant teaching, the lectures are going to be held on-line via MS Teams and the students present their papers on-line (without submitting it in writing).

Přednášky probíhají v učebnách FaVU VUT v hodinách určených rozvrhem. Povinná přítomnost není vyžadována.

Aims

The aim of the course is to present and discuss the methodological perspectives of ethnic and cultural minority art and the creation of the canon of modern / contemporary art / architecture, while introducing key figures, movements, places, exhibitions and texts that represented the emancipation of ethnic and cultural minorities in visual art / design.
Students will have a basic overview of the history of art, design and exhibiting of ethnic and cultural minorities in the Western world, and at the same time they should acquire the ability to view themes and problems of art and design from an inter-racial and inter-cultural, non-privileged perspective.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Adrienne Brown, The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race, Baltimore, MA, 2019 (EN)
Bridget Cooks, Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 2011 (EN)
Cary D. Wintz – Paul Finkelman (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Vol. 1 (A-J), Vol. 2 (K-Z), New York 2004 (EN)
Dreck Spurlock Wilson (ed.), African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865–1945, New York; London, 2004 (EN)
Elliott M. Rudwick – August Meier, Black Man in the "White City": Negroes and the Columbian Exposition, 1893, Phylon, vol. 26, No. 4, 1965, s. 354–361 (EN)
Gannit Ankori (ed.), Frida Kahlo and San Francisco, München 2021 (EN)
Heather Hathaway – Josef Jarab – Jeffrey Melnick (eds.), Race and the Modern Artist, Oxford 2003 (EN)
Irene Cheng – Charles L Davis II – Mabel O Wilson (eds.), Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present (Culture Politics & the Built Environment), Pittsburg, 2020 (EN)
Jacqueline Francis, Making Race: Modernism and “Racial Art” in America, Seattle, 2015 (EN)
Janet Catherine Berlo – Ruth B. Phillips (eds.), Native North American Art, Oxford 1998 (EN)
Julie Ault (Editor), Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Göttingen 2016 (EN)
Kara Kelley Hallmark, Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists (Artists of the American Mosaic), Westwood, CT, 2007 (EN)
Karen E. Hudson, The Will and the Way: Paul R. Williams, Architect, New York 1998 (EN)
Laura Kina – Jan Christian Bernabe (eds.), Queering Contemporary Asian American Art, Seattle 2017 (EN)
Marc Appleton – Stephen Gee, Paul R. Williams, Los Angeles 2021 (EN)
Margo Machida, Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary, Durham, NC, 2009 (EN)
Mark Godfrey – Zoé Whitley (eds.), Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, New York 2017 (EN)
Paul A Wellington, Black Built: History and Architecture in the Black Community, Paul Wellington 2019 (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N_A+U Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme NE_A+U Master's

    specialization --- (till 2022) , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme VUM Master's

    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-D , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-D , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-IDT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-IDT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch VU-VT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch VU-VT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme FAAD Master's 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DES_M Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme VUM_M Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme ZST-BX Bachelor's

    branch ZST , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme ZST-NX Master's

    branch ZST , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme N_A+U Master's

    specialization --- (do 2022) , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme NE_A+U Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Ladislav Jackson, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Race in the visual arts: separation or integration model? Methodological introduction
2. Harlem Rennaisance (Aaron Dougles, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee, Richmond Barthé), Federal Art Project and its impact on black artists; Black visibility at Chicago 1933 World Fair
3. Human Rights Movement 1960–1980 (San Francisco: Emory Dougles, Black Power; Harlem: The Studio Museum; Chicago: OBAC, AfriCOBRA; New York: Contemporary Black Artists in America show, BECC; Los Angeles: Betye Sara)
4. Asian-American Art (performance art of Winston Tong), key events (Eye to Eye, CHINA: June 4, 1989), institutions (The Asian American Arts Centre), Asian-American architects (I. M. Pei, Shusaku Arakawa)
5. „First black architect“ Paul R. Williams
6. Black modernisms (Emanuel Admassu, Germane Barnes, Sekou Cooke, J. Yolande Daniels, Felecia Davis, Mario Gooden, Walter Hood, Olalekan Jeyifous, V. Mitch McEwen, and Amanda Williams)
7. Intersectionality: Negotiating identity in the work of Frida Kahlo and Felix Gonzáles Torres
8. Exhibiting Blackness: Recent curatorial projects (Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, 2017–2020, and Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, 2021)
9. „Black to the Future“: Visualizing Afrofuturism (Mark Dery's and Alondra Nelson's texts, work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nick Cave, Krista Franklin, group Nigerian American, curatorial projects of Gia Hamilton and King Britt)
10. Roma art and design: Czech approach
11. Students presentations
12. Students presentations