US_92 The Pre-Raphaelites

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Aleš Filip, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Kristýna Celhofferová, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Timetable
Tue 16:40–18:15 J21
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 80 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/80, only registered: 0/80, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/80
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The activities of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (P.R.B.) will be analyzed within the course. The brotherhood established in London in the year 1848 became one of the most influential movementents of the 19th century. The interess for this artistic movement, closely connected with the period aestheticism, increased rapidly for the last decades. One of the reasons for this fact ist a "postmodern" ability of the contemporary public to perceive and appreciate a striking, effective painting with numerous literary connotations, which had a reform programme at the same time, expressed through the rejection of academism and the return to "primitives" of the quttrocentro (before Raphael). The activities of the P.R.B. will be examined in an arthistorical and a broader cultural context, the question of the influence of the P.R.B. in the Czech lands will be examined as well.
Syllabus
  • 1) The beginnings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood /P.R.B./, 1848-1851 2) The inspiration of the P.R.B. in the history of art 3) Images of the modern life 4) The landscape paintings 5) Religious paintings 6) The relation of the P.R.B. to the Arts and Crafts Movement 7) Aestheticism 8) The Pre-Raphaelite inspiration in Great Britain in comparision with continental Europe, and especially Czech lands
Literature
  • BARNES, Rachel. The Pre-Raphaelites and their World. London: Tate Gallery Publishing, 1998, 120 pp. ISBN 1 85437 220 3. info
  • BARRINGER, Tim. Reading the Pre-Raphaelites. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999, 176 pp. ISBN 0300077874. info
  • GOMBRICH, E. H. The Preference for the primitive : episodes in the history of western taste and art. London: Phaidon Press, 2002, 324 s. ISBN 0714841544. info
  • HEWISON, Robert, Ian WARRELL and Stephen WILDMAN. Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites. London: Tate Gallery Publishing, 2000, 288 pp. ISBN 1 85437 203 X. info
  • LAMBOURNE, Lionel. The Aesthetic Movement. London: Phaidon Press, 1996, 240 pp. ISBN 0714830003. info
  • LAMBOURNE, Lionel. Victorian painting. 1st pub. London: Phaidon, 1999, 512 s. ISBN 0714843598. info
  • The P.R.B. Journal : William Michael Rossetti's Diary of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood together with other Pre-Raphaelite documents. Edited by William E. Fredeman - William Michael Rossetti. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975, ix, 282. ISBN 0198125054. info
  • STALEY, Allen and Christopher NEWALL. Pre-Raphaelite Vision. Truth to Nature. London: Tate Publishing, 2004, 256 pp. ISBN 1 85437 499 0. info
Teaching methods
Lectures and class discussions.
Assessment methods
1) An essay on an agreed theme, 4.500 types, till 5.12.2009. 2) A knowledge of a subject matter of the lectures prooved through a colloquium.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2019.
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