DU2390 Modern Movements & Individual Approaches

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 14:00–15:40 K32
Prerequisites
The prerequisite is an orientation in European and Czech art history of the first half of the 20th century.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course will focus on artists who transcend the known frameworks of the modern movements of the first half of the 20th century and therefore rarely appear alongside the main figures of modern art. Individual lectures will include, for example, representatives of Czech-German art, the work of women painters working alongside their husbands, and art produced in local centres.
Learning outcomes
the ability of written and oral interpretation of the topic
Syllabus
  • 1.Czech-German art: a) Wenzel Hablik and Expressionism b) German New Objectivity and Czech Civilism; 2.Avant-Garde Artists on the Axis Rome - Paris - Moscow a) Růžena Zátková: between Futurism and Neoprimitivism b) Sofie Tauber Arp and Sonia Delaunay: two paths to abstraction c) Varvara Stepanova: art and revolution; 3. local centres a) performative Brno Devětsil against Prague poetism and artificialism b) the České Budějovice group Linie c) surrealism and the Zlín School of Art
Literature
  • BELTING, Hans. Konec dějin umění. Translated by Jan Hlavička. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2000, 244 s. ISBN 8020408568. info
  • HABÁNOVÁ, Anna, Keith HOLZ, Ivo HABÁN, Jiří HORNÍČEK, Zsófia KISS-SZEMÁN, Bohunka KOKLESOVÁ, Barbora KUNDRAČÍKOVÁ, Jana MIGÁŠOVÁ, Helena MUSILOVÁ, Milan PECH, Alena POMAJZLOVÁ, Lubomír SPURNÝ and Barbora SVOBODOVÁ. New Realisms : Modern Realist Approaches across the Czechoslovak scene 1918-1945. Liberec: Národní památkový ústav, 2019, 487 pp. ISBN 978-80-87810-43-9. info
  • Brněnský Devětsil a multimediální přesahy umělecké avantgardy. Edited by Petr Ingerle - Lucie Česálková. Vydání první. V Brně: Moravská galerie v Brně, 2014, 135 stran. ISBN 9788070272763. info
  • Mezery v historii : sborník příspěvků ze sympozií Společnosti pro české a německé umění a dějiny umění, konaných v letech 2004-2009 v rámci Festivalu uprostřed Evropy - Mitte Europa v Chebu. Edited by Jana A. Brabcová. [Cheb: Festival uprostřed Evropy, 2010, 247 s. info
Teaching methods
lectures, questions, discussion
Assessment methods
essay, oral presentation of the chosen topic
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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