DU2006 Seminar: Art Criticism, Journalism, Media

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Kesner, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ing. Marcela Rusinko, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Kesner, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 14:00–15:40 K31, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
Prerequisites
contextual knowledge of the history of Czech and foreign art,excellent stylistic and grammatical skills of the Czech language, very good English language reading skills
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 20/15, only registered: 1/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
Course objectives
The aim of the seminar is to get acquainted with the fundamental means of expression of journalism and art criticism and to actively master them. During the course the students analyze examples of both domestic and foreign historical and contemporary art-critical texts. They look at the used expression forms, the journalistic style, the very subject of interest and the content of the communication in the context of the period paradigms of the society in which the text was created. The current media art scene is being systematically analyzed in the course, students are led to deepen the ability of their own critical judgment on art works, exhibitions, publications, and institutional activities.

In the first part of the course students are guided and motivated to find historical critical texts related to exhibitions in our environment, to work with sources. They are acquainted with key art periodicals of the past in our environment (Moderní revue, Umělecký měsíčník, Volné směry, Výtvarná práce, Výtvarné umění, Umění, Umění a řemesla, etc.). It is then followed by an analysis of critical texts from abroad.
Throughout the semester they also work on their own art-critical output.
Learning outcomes
Students are able to:

- recognize individual written media forms, to define their goals and the means of expression
- actively apply them in their own professional outputs
- analyze historical and contemporary critical texts
- style your own artistic and critical written output
- analyze the level of linguistic means used, the social background of the texts and the goal of the writer
Syllabus
  • studying critical texts
  • analysis of style and form
  • key periodicals
  • analysis of selected texts
  • own artistic-critical output
Literature
    required literature
  • Zajatec kubismu : dílo Emila Filly v zrcadle výtvarné kritiky (1907-1953). Edited by Tomáš Winter. Vyd. 1. Praha: Artefactum, 2004, xxxix, 335. ISBN 809032309X. info
  • Moderní revue : 1894-1925. Vyd. 1. Praha: Torst, 1995, 396 s. ISBN 8085639637. info
  • GREENBERG, Clement. The collected essays and criticism. Edited by John O'Brian. Pbk. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, xvi, 341. ISBN 0226306240. info
    recommended literature
  • DVOŘÁK, TOMÁŠ (ed.), Kapitoly z dějin a teorie médií. AVU Praha 2010.
  • ELKINS, James. What happened to art criticism? Chicago: Prickly Paradigm, 2007, 87 s. ISBN 0972819630. info
  • KRAUSS, Rosalind E. The originality of the avant-garde and other modernist myths. 1st MIT Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986, 307 s. ISBN 0262610469. info
  • DIDEROT, Denis. O umění. Translated by Jan Binder. 1. vyd. v tomto uspořádán. Praha: Odeon, 1983, 436 s. URL info
  • DIDEROT, Denis. Skutočnosť v umení : výber z estetických študií a kritík. Edited by Michal Bartko, Translated by Helena Turcerová-Devečková. V Bratislave: Slovenský spisovateľ, 1959. info
    not specified
  • FOSTER, Hal, Rosalind E. KRAUSS, Yve-Alain BOIS, B. H. D. BUCHLOH and David JOSELIT. Umění po roce 1900 : modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus. Translated by Josef Hrdlička - Irena Ellis - Jitka Sedláčková - Jana Hlávko. Druhé, rozšířené vydán. V Praze: Slovart, 2015, 816 stran. ISBN 9788073919757. info
  • STEINBERG, Leo. Other criteria : confrontations with twentieth-century art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, xxii, 436. ISBN 9780226771854. info
  • KRAUSS, Rosalind E. The Picasso papers. 1st MIT Press ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999, xvi, 272. ISBN 0262611422. info
Teaching methods
historical excursion to the history of art criticism and media theory, analysis of historical and contemporary texts, working with archival sources, writing of own texts and discussion about them
Assessment methods
active participation in lessons, continuous evaluation of own texts, individual and group work on seminar topics, , evaluation of work with sources
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Povinnost navštěvovat oba termíny konání kurzu (sudé pondělí, lichý čtvrtek).
Teacher's information
Obligation to attend the course on both dates (even Monday, odd Thursday)
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2025.
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