1. The beginnings of modern culture and art in the first half of the 19th century 2. Art of the second half of the 19th century 3. Art of the National Theatre generation; European architecture of the second half of the 19th century 4. Art of the turn of the 19th and 20th century (arts and crafts movement and art nouveau in Europe; symbolism and Mánes Society of Artists in the Czech lands) 5. Turning points in the visuality of modern art (fauvism, expressionism, futurism, cubism, the beginnings of abstraction) 6. Revision of the concept of modern art: the European interwar avant-garde (Dada, Russian constructivism and suprematism, Dutch neoplasticism, Bauhaus, international style, surrealism) 7. Main tendencies of world architecture in the first half of the 20th century (expressionism, art deco, new historicism, organic architecture, functionalism, purism) 8. Czech art of the first half of the 20th century (expressionism, cubism and surrealism, the Osma artistic association, the Group of Artists, Devětsil Artistic Federation) 9. Czech architecture of the first half of the 20th century in the international context 10. Art in times of war, ideologies and totalitarianism 11. Art after 1945 in Europe and North America (abstract expressionism, art informel, pop art, land art, conceptual art, new media, interdisciplinarity of artistic expression) 12. Postmodernism and the revision of originality; architecture of the second half of the 20th century (international style, brutalism, high-tech, utopia) 13. Critical art (gender, institutional, postcolonial critique, activism, globalisation)
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The course will comprehensively convey the form of visual culture in the time horizon of 1800-2000, focusing on Europe and the Czech lands with overlaps to non-European space, in an attempt to capture the basic contours of global artistic expressions of the modern and postmodern era. It will present art in a broad chronological and geographical framework on the basis of synthesis, but also with substantial analytical, comparative probes. It will introduce central canonical works of art, artistic innovations, while presenting them in their respective historical and cultural context. To this end, analytical mapping of specific topics (artistic genres and practices, new technologies and artistic concepts, changes in visual culture with the advent of new media) will complement the synthetic nature of the course. In a seminar format, students' competencies will be simultaneously tested both in a factual sense and with regard to the cultivation of visual memory and basic art-historical skills.
Orientation in the issues of visual culture in the period of 1800-2000 in Europe and the Czech lands in a broad chronological and geographical framework; knowledge of the main works of art, artists, trends and innovations in a historical and cultural context.
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