DU2534 Seminar: Art around 1800

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 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 15:00–16:35 K33
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 21 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/21, only registered: 0/21, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/21
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. Participants will learn how to read and interpret visual culture around 1800
Syllabus
  • We will survey crucial thematic issues such as changes in taste, new art public, new types of art, new types of artists and new theoretical discourses.
  • Further topics:
  • Impact of enlightenment notions of progress
  • cosmopolitan ideal
  • Impact of urbanisation
  • French Revolution and visual propaganda
  • Universalism vs nationalism
  • The rise of the North
Literature
  • HOFMANN, Werner. Das entzweite Jahrhundert : Kunst zwischen 1750 und 1830. München: C.H. Beck, 1995, 718 s. ISBN 3406396240. 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
  • KROUPA, Jiří. Antropologický obrat a umění v českých zemích kolem 1800. (The Anthropological Turn and the Art both in Bohemia and Moravia around 1800.). In Zdeněk Hojda-Roman Prahl (edd.), Mezi časy ... Kultura a umění v českých zemích kolem roku 1800 (sborník příspěvků z 19. ročníku sympozií k problematice 19. století, Plzeň, 4.-6 března 1999). Praha: KLP, 2000, p. 11-24. ISBN 80-85917-68-8. info
Teaching methods
reading, reports and essays, class discussion, presentations
Assessment methods
essay, presentations
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
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