IM111 Duchamp and Cage Legacy

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Jozef Cseres, PhD. (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Monday 14:10–17:25 J31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Traditionalism and depart with tradition. Ready-made and Future of Music as visionary acts and philosophical gestures. Found object and found sound. Aesthetics and anti-aesthetics, art and anti-art. Marcel Duchamp and de-aesthetization of art-making. John Cage and anesthetization of noise. Duchamp and Cage as devisers of conceptual and intermedia orientation of art-making. Influence of Duchamp’s and Cage’s work in arts, philosophy and aesthetics.
Literature
  • Nicholls, David (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to John Cage. Cambridge UP, Cambridge, 2002.
  • Kostelanetz, Richard (ed.): Conversing With Cage. Omnibus Press, Londýn/New York/Sydney, 1989.
  • Lyotard, Jean-François: Duchamp’s Trans/formers. Lapis Pr., 1995.
  • Haladyn, Julian Jason: Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés. Afterall Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts/Londýn, 2010.
  • Cage, John: Silence. Tranzit, Praha, 2010.
  • Chalupecký, Jindřich: Úděl umělce: Duchampovské meditace. Torst, Praha, 1998.
  • Sanouillet, Michel – Peterson, Elmer (eds.): The Writings of Marcel Duchamp. DaCapo Press, New York, 1989.
  • De Duve, Thierry: Kant After Duchamp. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts/Londýn, 1998.
  • Cseres, Jozef (ed.): Postduchampovské reflexie I., II. a III. In: Profil súčasného výtvarného umenia 3/04 (s. 86-114), 4/04 (s. 108-133) a 1/05 (s. 94-105), Bratislava 2004.
  • Malbert, Roger – Millar, Jeremy – Sandler, Irving – Luckett, Helen – Wright, Lauren A.: Everyday Day is a Good Day: The Visual Art of John Cage. Hayward Publishing, Londýn, 2010.
  • Henderson, Linda Darlymple: Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the "Large Glass" and Related Works. Princeton UP, Princeton, 2005.
  • Jones, Amelia: Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp. Cambridge UP, Cambridge, 1995
  • Brown, Kathan: John Cage Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind. Crown Point Press, San Francisco, 2001.
Teaching methods
Lecture-seminar
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2012, recent)
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