Course detail

Master's State Examination Seminar 1

FaVU-CPZZ-IAcad. year: 2023/2024

The first of three seminars serving students as a support in preparing for the theoretical part of the Master's State Final Exam. The content of this seminar is based on the recommended study literature. During the semester, students work with five selected texts. They prepare a summary for each text, which then serves as a support for a critical discussion of the text during the seminar.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

Good knowledge of history of modern and contemporary art; critical reading skills.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

In order to be awarded the credit, it is necessary to meet the following conditions: submit summaries (in the required length and quality) for all five selected texts; attend at least four seminars.
Compulsory attendance.

Aims

The aim of the course is to make students acquainted with selected texts of recommended literature for the final state examination and at the same time to develop and consolidate (via working with these texts) important competencies - the ability to paraphrase the content of a scholarly text and the ability to critically discuss its contents.
Students will get acquainted with the selected study literature in more detail, and they will gain the basis for individual preparation for the final state examination. By writing summaries, students will strengthen the ability to paraphrase professional texts - to capture their argumentative core, to separate important from less important information. During the seminars, students will deepen their ability to critically discuss topics related to the focus of study.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Denis CIPORANOV –Tomáš KULKA (eds.), Co je umění? Texty angloamerické estetiky 20. století, Červený Kostelec: Mervart, 2010. (CS)
Fredric JAMESON, Postmodernismus neboli Kulturní logika pozdního kapitalismu, Praha: Rybka Publishers, 2016. (CS)
Hal FOSTER, „Co je nového na neoavantgardě?“, Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny, roč. 4, 2010, č. 8, s. 58–84. (CS)
Helena BENDOVÁ – Matěj STRNAD (eds.), Společenské vědy a audiovize, Praha: NAMU, 2014. (CS)
Jean-François LYOTARD, O postmodernismu (Postmoderno vysvětlované dětem; Postmoderní situace), Praha: Filosofický ústav AVČR 1993. (CS)
Marita STURKEN – Lisa CARTWRIGHT, Studia vizuální kultury, Praha: Portál, 2009. (CS)
Martina PACHMANOVÁ (ed.), Neviditelná žena. Antologie současného amerického myšlení o feminismu, dějinách a vizualitě, Praha: One Woman Press, 2002. (CS)
Paul O’NEILL, The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), The MIT Press, 2012. (CS)
Pavel BARŠA, Panství člověka a touha ženy: feminismus mezi psychoanalýzou a poststrukturalismem, Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2002. (CS)
Pavel ZAHRÁDKA (ed.), Estetika na přelomu milénia. Vybrané problémy současné estetiky, Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2010. (CS)
Yve-Alain BOIS – Benjamin Buchloh – Hal FOSTER – Rosalind KRAUSSOVÁ, Umění po roce 1900, Praha: Slovart, 2007. (CS)

Recommended reading

Anour ABDEL–MALEK – Chinua ACHEBE – Aimé CÉSAIRE – Achille MBEMBE – Edward W. SAID – Ngũgĩ WA THIONGʼO, Postkoloniální myšlení II, Praha: tranzit.cz, 2011. (CS)
Bojana PEJIĆ (ed.), Gender check: A reader. Art and Theory in Eastern Europe. Kolín nad Rýnem: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010. (EN)
Claire BISHOP, Installation Art, London: Tate Publishing, 2011. (EN)
David KORECKÝ (ed.), Médium kurátor: role kurátora v současném českém umění, Praha: Agite/Fra, 2009. (CS)
Hans Ulrich OBRIST, Stručná historie kurátorství, Kutná Hora: Galerie Středočeského kraje, 2012. (CS)
Jakub STEJSKAL, „Umění, ideologie a estetika“, in: Pavel ZAHRÁDKA (ed.), Estetika na přelomu milénia, Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2010. (CS)
Josef FULKA, Psychoanalýza a francouzské myšlení, Praha: Herrmann & synové, 2008 (část I). (CS)
Karel CÍSAŘ (ed.), Sochy v ulicích III. Stav věcí, Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 2012. (CS)
Karsten SCHUBERT, The Curator’s Egg, Londýn: Ridinghouse, 2009. (EN)
Marta FILIPOVÁ – Matthew RAMPLEY (eds.), Možnosti vizuálních studií: obrazy, texty, interpretace, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Seminář dějin umění, 2007. (CS)
Nicolas MIRZOEFF, Úvod do vizuální kultury, Praha: Academia, 2012. (CS)
Rosalind KRAUSS, „Sochařství v rozšířeném poli“, in: Karel CÍSAŘ (ed.), Sochy v ulicích III. Sochy v ulicích, Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 2012, s. 130–143. (CS)
Wolfgang WELSCH, Naše postmoderní moderna, Praha: Zvon, 1994. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUM Master's

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

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

At the beginning of the semester, students are divided into two seminar groups. In these groups, they work under the guidance of teachers with five texts from the recommended study literature for the final state examination. Each text must first be prepared by students in the form of a short abstract, which must be submitted before the date of the seminar devoted to the text. The selection of texts and dates of seminars for each group are announced at the beginning of the semester.