Czech

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Students will learn about the chronological developments of visual art in the second half of the 20th century, taking into account developments in other art disciplined.

Basic knowledge of history of art, reflecting the beginning of the 20th century.

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

50% attendance at lectures. Conclusion: test above 70% without examination.
Test evaluated by the ECTS scale.

1. Social realism in Czechoslovakia, Stalinism, Czech architecture of the 50s - Soviet influences
2. surrealism, existentionalism, and explosionalism in 1950s Czech art
3. existentialist tendencies in international post-war art: abstract expressionism, CoBrA, informel, etc.
4. Art brut, Dubuffet, outsider art
5. brutalism in architecture
6. Máj 57 and Trasa art groups - Czech neo-modernism
7.. Brussels 58 Expo
8. The Beatnicks and Lettrism in international art
9. Pop, New Figuration, Op part, kinetism in international art
10/ Funk art, Nouvelle Realism, SI
11. Czech informel, Czech Grotesque, Czech kinetism, visual and concrete poetry and lettrism
12. Photpgraphy and design 45 - 69
13. Performance and happenings; Czech action art / Aktual - Knížák and Fluxus
14. Spring 68, unofficial Czech alternative culture, documentary photography.

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The aim of the course is to teach students about Czech and international art of the second half of the 2oth century with regard to wider social context.

Attendance at lectures: 50%.

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Art of the 20th Century (ed. I. Walther), 2 svazky, Kohl 1998
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění 1939 - 1958 V, Academia, Praha 2005
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění 1958 - 2000 VI (2 svazky), Academia, Praha 2007
Dempseyová, Amy: Umělecké styly, školy a směry, Slovart 2002
Foster, H., Ferguson, B. W., Mairne, S.: Umění po roce 1990, Slovart 2007
Smith, E. L.: Art today. Současné světové umění, Slovart 1996

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