ETMA113 Folk Art Culture

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Alena Křížová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Alena Křížová, Ph.D.
Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová
Supplier department: Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 10:00–11:40 J31
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
The course is focuses on problems of folk arts culture in Czech and Moravia; it presents elemental theoretical questions and concrete documents of folk art culture defined area.
Learning outcomes
After having completed the course, the students will be able use scientific terminology, distinguish the elements of folk and popularized art, distinguish the influence of historical styles of art, and place the objects of folk and popularized artistic work into the folk culture classification.
Syllabus
  • The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the subject of folk fine arts culture in Bohemia and Moravia. -Terminology (folk and popularized art, popular and naive art), evolution and subject of study, relation to professional art, aesthetic criteria
  • -Fine arts folklorism
  • -Written, material, and iconographic sources
  • -Motives, ornamentic, and symbology
  • -Murals
  • -Furniture, carving, sculpture
  • -Glass, underpainting on glass
  • -Ceramics
  • -Ceremonial objects, painted Easter eggs, pastries
  • -Crèches
  • -Toys
  • -Textiles, embroidery
  • -Popularized graphics
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Umění čsl. lidu, Zdeněk Wirth, Ladislav Lábek, Antonín Matějček, Praha 1928
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
test, exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2021, recent)
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