IM118 World Art after 1945

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Jan Zálešák, Ph.D. (lecturer), doc. PhDr. Martin Flašar, 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
Thu 14:10–15:45 211
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 5 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/5, only registered: 0/5, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/5
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students will be able to orient themselves in the developments of fine arts after 1945; they will be be able to distinguish key movements and its key figures; students will be able to apply acquired knowledge about the general history of contemporary art in other courses focused on fine arts and visual culture.
Syllabus
  • 1. Artistic response to the WW2. Cold war and cultural imperialism - consequences in the art world. Abstract painting in Europe and USA contra a doctrine of socialist realism. Various streams of abstract painting (abstract expressionism, tachism, colour field painting, op art). The first Documenta in Kassel.
  • 2. Black Mountain College (JohnCage) and other art school in the USA in the 1950s. Establishing of the neo-avantgarde. Neo-dadaism (Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns). Art and the everyday - European „nouveaux realisme“ (Arman, Spoerri, Christo, César).
  • 3. Artistic response to the cultural industry and popular (visual) culture. Independent Group (Paolozzi, Hamilton), Pop art (Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg). Uninterrupted tradition of the pop – 1980s and 1990s (Koons, Murakami).
  • 4. Art of the action. Jackson Pollock and Gutai group. Allan Kaprow, environments and happenings. Yves Klein. Different forms of performance art (testing the boundaries of the body, ritualised acts, political connotations) and its developments during the time and in various regions (Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Richard Serra, Marina Abramovic…).
  • 5. Minimalism and postminimalism (Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Eva Hesse). Conceptual art in its historical phase (1965 – 1975; Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Art and Language) and later forms of conceptualism (institutional critique, socially and politically engaged forms of conceptualism).
  • 6.Site-specific art, public art, new genre public art – various forms of art in public spaces. Land art, its forms and key figures (Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, Helen and Newton Harrisons, Agnes Denes).
  • 7. New media art. Video art – its beginnings and further developments. Experiments in Art and Technology. Art and television. Digitalization and its consequences for the art practice. Net.art, internet art and art on the internet. New media art and its institutions.
  • 8. A photography in fine art. Conceptual art and photography (Ed Ruscha, Ernd and Hilla Bechers a Düsseldorf school of photography, Gabriel Orozco…). „Monumental“ photography – Andreas Gursky, Jeff Wall. Photography, subjectivity, identity (Cindy Sherman). Subjective archive – blog (Gerhard Richter and his Atlas, Wolfgang Tillmans).
  • 9. Comebacks of the figurative painting. New figuration of the 1960a (Alex Katz, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud…), hyperrealism, (neo)expresionism and its variants (Baselitz, Richter, Kiefer…), Neue Wilde (Joerg Immendorff, Martin Kippenberger, Jiří Georg Dokoupil), trasavantgarde, postmodern painting, critical and historical painting of the 1980s and 1990s (Gerhard Richter, Luc Tuymans, Kerry James Marshall).
  • 10. Fine art of the former Eastern Bloc. Sanja Ivekovic, Julius Koller, Stano Filko, Anatolij Osmolovskij, IRWIN, Zbigniew Libera, Krystof Wodiczko, Ilja Kabakov, Komar a Melamid, medhermeneutics, Nedko Solakov, Mladen Stilinovič.
  • 11. Fine art in Latin America. 196Os and 1970s – from abstraction to politically engaged art (Lygia Pape, Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Cildo Meireles, Rosario Group). 1980s and 1990s – Gabriel Orozco, Jorge Pardo, Felix Gonzales Torres, Minerva Cuevas, Francis Alys, Santiago Sierra.
  • 12. Contemporary fine art in Asia and Africa – a situation of these regions in the context of the global art world. Contemporary art and postcolonialism.
Literature
  • FOSTER, Hal. Umění po roce 1900 : modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus. Translated by Josef Hrdlička - Irena Ellis - Jitka Sedláčková. Praha: Slovart, 2007, 704 s. ISBN 9788072099528. info
  • LUCIE-SMITH, Edward. Artoday :současné světové umění. 1. české vyd. Praha: Slovart, 1996, 511 s. ISBN 80-85871-97-1. info
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
written test, semester paper
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 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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