FF:DU2671 Abstraction and figuration - Course Information
DU2671 Abstraction and figuration
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D. - Timetable
- Mon 10:50–12:25 K32
- 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
- History of Arts (programme FF, M-HS)
- History of Arts (programme FF, M-OT)
- History of Arts (programme FF, N-OT)
- Course objectives
- At the end of this course student should be able to explain the relation and the difference between two main principles of visual art - figuration and abstraction.
- Syllabus
- Difference between figuration and abstraction
- The way from figuration to abstraction
- From abstraction to figuration
- Subject and meaning
- Interpretation of the works of visual artist with the accentuation to second half of 20th century.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- NICKAS, Robert. Painting abstraction : new elements in abstract painting. 1st pub. London: Phaidon, 2009, 343 s. ISBN 9780714849331. URL info
- Neogeo : a new edge to abstraction. Edited by Robert Klanten - Sven Ehmann - Birga Meyer. Berlin: Gestalten Verlag, 2007, 191 s. ISBN 9783899551945. info
- RORIMER, Anne. New art in the 60s and 70s : redefining reality. 1st pbk. ed., with rev. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004, 304 s. ISBN 0500284717. info
- HARRIS, Jonathan. The new art history : a critical introduction. 1st repr. pub. London: Routledge, 2004, xviii, 302. ISBN 041523008X. info
- HOPKINS, David. After modern art, 1945-2000. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, v, 282. ISBN 0192842811. info
- HUBATOVÁ-VACKOVÁ, Lada. Figurativní abstrakce versus abstraktní figurace. Kandinského abstraktní syntézy, fotodynamismus bratrů Bragagliových a jejich "rozostřená" projekce lidské bytosti. (Figurative abstraction contra abstract figuration.). Opuscula Historiae Artium. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1999, F 43, p. 49-56. ISSN 1211-7390. info
- BRU, Charles-Pierre. Esthétique de l'abstraction : essai sur le probleme actuel de la peinture. [Paris?]: Privat, 1955, 331 s. info
- not specified
- BOIS, Yve-Alain and Rosalind E. KRAUSS. Formless : a user's guide. New York: Zone Books, 1997, 296 s. ISBN 0942299442. 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
- Teaching methods
- Lectures.
- Assessment methods
- Written essay.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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