ENSn4623 Nature and Landscape in Contemporary Art

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2025

The course is not taught in Spring 2025

Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Karel Stibral, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Karel Stibral, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Hendrychová
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites
! HEN623 Nature and Landscape in Art &&!NOW( HEN623 Nature and Landscape in Art )&&TYP_STUDIA(N)
There are no prerequisites for this course. This course is open to all students without any prior conditions.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Main objectives of the course can be summarized: to understand a history of the changes of art in the attitude towards nature and landscape during the 19th-21st century. At the end of this course, students should be able to understand main movements, groups and artists connected with nature and landscape; to interpret connections between aesthetic appreciation of nature and environmental approach towards cultural landscape.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the subject, students will be able to identify and analyze the development of the depiction of nature in European fine arts of the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 21st centuries. They will be able to determine the basic factors and inspiration of this development within the fine arts themselves, as well as within the framework of the transformations of the social or intellectual contexts of the given periods.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction - basic concepts and categories. 2. Art and nature in the first half of the 19th century: Romanticism, Neoclassicism, Biedermeier, Realism. 3. Art and nature in the second half of the 19th century. Impressionisms, Pointilism, Symbolism, Postimpressionism, Art Noveau. 4. A break of the 19th and 20th century - Expressionism and nature, Cubism and other early-20th-century avant-garde art movements. 5. Fauvism, surrealism. 6. The art of the Third Reich and nature, Socialistic realism, art of the 1960s. 7. Land/Earth art. 8.-9. Conceptual art and nature, Body art, Environment, Video art, bodyart, Performance art, sculpture, instalations. 10. Living organisms in art: Bio art, Biotech art, Transgenic art. 11. Environmentalism and art, ecoart etc. 12. Landscaping and landscape gardening of the 20th and 21st centuries. 13. Excursion.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Pe šková, Terezie – Bydžovská, Lenka – Srp, Karel – Halík, Pavel a kol.aut: Dějiny umění. 12. díl (tzv. „Pijoan“). Praha: Euromedia, Knižní klub, Balios, 2002
  • CLARK, Kenneth, Landscape Into Art. London: J. Murray, 1976
  • Od země přes kopec do nebe-- : o chůzi, poutnictví a posvátné krajině. Edited by Jiří Zemánek. Vyd. 1. V Litoměřicích: Severočeská galerie výtvarného umění, 2005, 183 s. ISBN 8085090619. info
  • Divočina - příroda, duše, jazyk : věnováno Gary Snydereovi a Josefu Váchalovi. Edited by Jiří Zemánek. Praha: Kant, 2003, 171 stran. ISBN 8086217825. info
  • ANDREWS, Malcolm. Landscape and Western art. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, vii, 248. ISBN 9780192842336. info
  • SRP, Karel. Minimal & Earth & Conceptual Art. [Praha]: Jazzová sekce, 1982, 333 s. info
Teaching methods
A lecture supported by short exercises.
Assessment methods
Written exam, final essay, active participation.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Course is no more offered.
The course is taught: every week.
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