DU2611 The Art around 1800

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Timetable
Tue 11:40–13:15 B12
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course presents the art in a period of rapid urbanisation, economic growth, political revolution, when artists were in business of finding new ways of making art, new ways of selling art and new ways of talking about art.
Syllabus
  • We will survey crucial thematic issues such as change in taste, new art public, new types of art, new types of artists and new theoretical discourses; the impact of enlightenment notions of progress; cosmopolitan ideal; the impact of urbanisation; French Revolution and visual propaganda; universalism vs nationalism; the rise of the North
Literature
  • Boime, A. Art in the Age of Revolution 1750-1800. Chicago-London 1987
  • Pointon, M. Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England. New Haven-London 1993
  • Klassizismen und Kosmopolitismus - Programm oder Problem? Austausch in Kunst und Kunsttheorie im 18. Jahrhundert. Zürich 2004
  • DaCosta Kaufmann, T. Painterly Enlightenment: The Art of Franz Anton Maulbertsch, 1724-1796. Chapel Hill 2006
  • Wrigley, R. The Origins of French Art Criticism. From the Ancien Régime to the Restoration. Oxford 1995
  • Kroupa, J. Antropologický obrat a umění v českých zemích kolem 1800. In: Hojda, Z.-Prahl, R.. Mezi časy... Kultura a umění v českých zemích kolem roku 1800, Praha 2000, s. 11-24
  • Hofmann, W. Das entzweite Jahrhundert. Kunst zwischen 1750 und 1830, München 1995
  • Haskell, F. History and its Images: Art and the Interpretation of Past. New Haven-London 1993
  • Crow, T. Painters and the Public Life in 18th Century Paris. New Haven-London 1995
  • Hopsbawn, E. Nations and Nationalism Since 1780. Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge 1990
  • KROUPA, Jiří. Alchymie štěstí. Pozdní osvícenství a moravská společnost 1770-1810. (The Alchemy of Hapiness. The Late Enlightenment and the Moravian Comunity 1770-1810.). Druhé, rozšířené a upravené. Brno: Era, 2006, 328 pp. Dějiny kultury. ISBN 80-7366-063-6. info
  • PRAHL, Roman. Prag 1780-1830 : Kunst und Kultur zwischen den Epochen und Völkern. Edited by Werner Hofmann - Nataša Diatková. Praha: Eminent, 2000, xxxiv, 483. ISBN 8090256813. info
Assessment methods
Lecture, colloquium - written essay
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005.
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