Course detail

Artists and Issues

FaVU-AIS-ZAcad. year: 2009/2010

The course will focus on selected topics and artists who reflect them. We will look at commercionalization and institutionalization of art, the change of the role of art in the 19th and 20th centuries (the birth of the avantguardes from the spirit of enlightment), the critique of art institutions in artworks and vice versa, artworks which collaborate with the art establishment.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Academic reflection of selected problems of contemporary art, a detailed knowledge of artworks and viewpoints of selected contemporary artists.

Prerequisites

Students have to have excellen communicative skills in English. They will either have to have a credit from Upper-intermediate Englsh course at FaVU or write an entrance test.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Exam, attendance.
Students will be assesed from writing all essays, oral presentation, and regular reading of the assigned texts. Not having read those texts will count as an absence.

Course curriculum

Art and institutions, art as institution, art and commercionalization (reflected by theoreticians and artists}.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Students will read, analyse, and discuss articles and essays on the selected topics. They will have to be prepared for every lesson. They will be encouraged to prepare some topics themselves (under the techer's instruction).

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

Attendance is mandatory, students are allowed to miss two classes per semester.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

Lecture

13 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová

Seminar

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Artists and Issues

Type of course unit