ESB851 Genealogy of the Avant-Garde

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Blahoslav Rozbořil, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Ivana Vašinová
Timetable
Thu 8:20–9:55 zruseno D21
Prerequisites
Úvod do filosofie Úvod do estetiky
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
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Course objectives
The goal of the course is to introdice so-called avant-garde as a characteristic feature of modernism. Modernism itself is introduced as an artistic movement replying to declined academism inside various artistic genres. In such a way introduced concept is then decomposed into particular topics which are subject matters of particular lectures, see syllabus. An ideal leaver is able to orientate him/herself inside various movements, streams, manifests, and artistic efforts during last one hundred and fifty years; s/he knows movements leaders, concepts relevant for modernism/avant-garde, is able do recognize and apply them.
Syllabus
  • 1. Avant-garde: concept, etymology 2. Politics and art: Goethe, Heine, Wagner 3. Romantism: new vs. old (Hugo, Sand) 4. Originality as value: Kant, Bourdieu 5. Fine art avant-garde: impresionists, Duchamp, Beuys, Klein 6. Avant-garde as a social phenomenon: role of science and technics in art 7. Art reception: scandal and shock as a kitsch sui generis 8. Crisis of avant-garde 9. Paradoxes of avant-garde: nonnormativ normativity, convention about nonconvention 10. Avant-garde versus postmodernism
Literature
  • ŘEZNÍKOVÁ, Lenka. Moderna a historismus : historické reprezentace v proměnách literatury na přelomu devatenáctého a dvacátého století. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2004, 351 s. ISBN 8072772783. info
  • Central European avant-gardes : exchange and transformation, 1910-1930. Edited by Péter Nádas - Timothy O. Benson - Monika Krol. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003, 447 s. ISBN 0262025221. info
  • SUS, Oleg. Estetické problémy pod napětím : meziválečná avantgarda, surrealismus, levice. Edited by Jaroslava Janáčková - Dušan Šlosar - Milan Suchomel, Illustrated by Ja. 1. vyd. Praha: Michal Jůza & Eva Jůzová, 1992, 59 s., [9]. ISBN 80-7111-006-X. info
  • DE MICHELI, Mario. Umělecké avantgardy dvacátého století. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1964, 378 s. URL info
Assessment methods
written exam, oral verifying
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/postmodernism/
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012.
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