Course detail

Sociological aspects of contemporary art

FaVU-3SASUAcad. year: 2024/2025

The course connect sociological research of art with the discourse of its socially sensitive aspects. Art is understood as a configuration of social processes which participate on the production of signification. Increasing reflexivity – the attribute of late modernity – orients a part of the astethetic culture towards the exposal of the very conditions of production. Art thus substitues social research; sometimes its intention is critical (Haacke), sometimes it is playful (Tiravanija), it tests the possibilities of dialogic and participative intervention in social reality. Despite being intentional and reflexive, art production can never fully free itself from institutional and material conditions. Reflexivity defying control is nevertheless inherent to the "context"itself.

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Mgr. Blahoslav Rozbořil, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Entry knowledge

None.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Doctoral exam.
Mandatory lectures and tutorials.

Aims

The course will provide students with teh awareness of complexity od social production of culture and show its "liquidity".
Knowledge of sociological research of art and ability to discuss its socially sensitive aspects.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Claire BISHOP (ed.), Participation. Documents of Contemporary Art. The MIT Press, 2006. (EN)
Grant KESTER, Conversation Pieces. Comunity and Communication in Modern Art. University of California Press, 2004. (EN)
M. W. REKTANUS, Culture incorporated. Museum, Artists and Corporate Sponsorship. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. (EN)
Nicolas BOURRIAD, Relational Aesthetics. Dijon: Les Preses du reél, 2002. (EN)
Pierre BOURDIEU – Hans HAACKE, Free Exchange. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995. (EN)
Pierre BOURDIEU, Rules of Art. Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. (EN)
Zoya KOCUR – Simon LEUNG, Theory in Contemporary Art. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. (EN)

Recommended reading

Brian FAY, Současná filozofie sociálních věd. Multikulturní přístup. Praha: Slon, 2002. (CS)
Lisa CARTWRIGHT – Marita STURKEN, Studia vizuální kultury. Praha: Portál, 2009. (CS)
Pierre BOURDIEU, Teorie jednání. Praha: Karolinum, 1998. (CS)
Thomas CROW, Modern Art in the Common Culture. Yale University Press, 1996. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUD Doctoral

    branch VUUP_DK4 , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme VUD Doctoral

    branch VUUP_DP4 , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

12 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Mgr. Blahoslav Rozbořil, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Sociological research of art.
2. Sociologically-sensitive aspects of art.
3. Art as the configuration of social processes which determine the production of signification.
4. Increasing reflexivity - the attribute od late modernity (Giddens)
5. Art substituting social research.
6. Discussion, tutorials.

Guided consultation

4 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Mgr. Blahoslav Rozbořil, Ph.D.