DU1258m Art and social space at the beginning of the modern age

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
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 15:50–17:25 K31
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 will address the redefining identity in 19th-century European and American visual culture - art in social space and role of ideologies of nation, class, race, ethnicity, gender, and economics in the era of industrialization and political change in Europe and America.
Syllabus
  • Enlightenment and the ideas of universal culture
  • Art, Salons and public at the end of the 18th century
  • Ideology and propaganda in the France Revolution
  • Patriotism and romantism in the era of Napoleon
  • Birth of nations and the cult of monuments
  • Memory, images and interpretations of the past
  • Visual culture of the industrial age: between art and advertisement
  • City, modernism and the rhetoric of realism
  • Image, identity and emancipation: ideology of class, gender, etnicity
Literature
  • NOVOTNY, Fritz. Painting and sculpture in Europe, 1780-1880. New impression. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, 483 s. ISBN 0300053215. info
  • EISENMAN, Stephen and Thomas E. CROW. Nineteenth century art : a critical history. New ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002, 428 s. ISBN 0500283354. info
  • The nineteenth-century visual culture reader. Edited by Vanessa R. Schwartz - Jeannene M. Przyblyski. 1st pub. New York: Routledge, 2004, xxiii, 405. ISBN 0415308666. info
  • HOFMANN, Werner. Das entzweite Jahrhundert : Kunst zwischen 1750 und 1830. München: C.H. Beck, 1995, 718 s. ISBN 3406396240. info
  • HASKELL, Francis. History and its images : art and the interpretation of the past. 2nd print., with corrections. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, x, 558. ISBN 0300059493. info
  • BELTING, Hans. Das unsichtbare Meisterwerk : die modernen Mythen der Kunst. München: C.H. Beck, 1998, 551 s. ISBN 3406440576. info
  • REICHARDT, Rolf and Hubertus KOHLE. Visualizing the revolution : politics and the pictorial arts in late eighteenth-century France. 1st pub. London: Reaktion Books, 2008, 294 s. ISBN 9781861893123. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2011, recent)
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