DU2748 Seminar: Cultural history of rococo object

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Pavel Suchánek, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 14:10–15:45 U36
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 18 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/18, only registered: 0/18, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/18
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of this course is stimulate debate concerning what rococo objects can tell us about history and society and how they mediated past social and cultural interactions, and to give students a chance to present their own work.
Syllabus
  • The seminar will be structured around a series of panels that focus on particular types of objects or particular thematic questions.
  • Methodologies; "material turn"
  • The use, misuse and disuse of objects
  • Memory, identity and material culture
  • Material culture of religion
  • Objects of desire: fashion, clothing and luxury
  • Eating and drink: festivals, eating paraphernalia etc.
  • Scientific and medical objects: tools, images, teaching materials
  • Gendered things
  • Cultures of collecting & travel
Literature
  • Furnishing the eighteenth century : what furniture can tell us about the European and American past. Edited by Dena Goodman - Kathryn Norberg. New York: Routledge, 2007, x, 245. ISBN 041594953X. info
  • KODA, Harold and Andrew BOLTON. Dangerous liaisons : fashion and furniture in the eighteenth century. Edited by Mimi Hellman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, 128 s. ISBN 0300107145. info
  • Between luxury and the everyday : decorative arts in eighteenth-century France. Edited by Katie Scott - Deborah Cherry. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2005, v, 185. ISBN 1405131683. info
  • SCOTT, Katie. The rococo interior : decoration and social spaces in early eighteenth-century Paris. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, ix, 342. ISBN 0300045824. info
Teaching methods
home reading, group projects, presentations, class discussion
Assessment methods
Students are required to write a case study and participate on final group project, orally present his/her research and attend the class discussion
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
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