DU2682ma History of photography: 20th-21st centuries

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lukáš Bártl, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Ondřej Jakubec, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Lukáš Bártl, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Monday 15:00–18:15 K33
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 12 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/12, only registered: 0/12, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/12
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course follows-up to the course “History and theory of photography in the 19th century”. It focuses on names, dates movements and tendencies which played a significant part in the period. Moreover, a special attention is paid to major theoretical concepts and interpretative shifts of the period.
Syllabus
  • 1. Kunstfotografie & Photo-Secession/pictorialism 2. Photographic avant-garde 3. Documentary photography in the US and the concept of humanist photography 4. “Conservative photography” of the 20th century 5. Photography in the second half of the 20th century – selected tendencies 6. Digital photography/digital image 7. Subjective documentary, staged photography etc. 8. Photographers versus artists involved in photography in the 1990s. 9. „Current movements“ 10. Benjamin, Barthes, Batchen
Literature
    required literature
  • MARIEN, Mary Warner. Photography : a cultural history. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002, xv, 528. ISBN 0810905590. info
  • A new history of photography. Edited by Michel Frizot. Köln: Könemann, 1998, 775 s. ISBN 3829013280. info
    not specified
  • Geoffrey Batchen, Each Wild Idea: Writing photography history. MIT Press, Cambridge 2001.
  • Antonín Dufek, kapitoly v: R. Švácha – M. Platovská (eds.), Dějiny českého výtvarného umění VI, 1958-2000, I-II. Academia, Praha 2007.
  • Antonín Dufek, kapitoly v: V. Lahda (ed.), Dějiny českého výtvarného umění IV, 1890-1938, I-II. Academia, Praha 1998.
  • Diana Emery Hulick with Joseph Marshall. Photography 1900 to the present. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1998.
  • Karel Císař (ed.), Co je to fotografie?, Praha 2004
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
examination
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 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2018, recent)
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