DU2333 Fin-de-Siècle art

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Richard Warren, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Richard Warren, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Tuesday 8:00–9:40 K31, each odd Friday 8:00–9:40 K33
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Syllabus
  • Background
  • 1. Historical context
  • 2. Naturalism
  • 3. Post-Impressionism (Paul Gauguin/Pont Aven, Puvis de Chavannes)
  • Countries
  • 4. Belgium and France (Horta, the Nancy school, the Symbolists)
  • 5. Germany and Austria (Otto Wagner, Klimt and the Vienna Secession, Stuck)
  • 6. Central Europe (Krakow, Prague, Budapest, Mucha, Wyspianski, Preisler, folk art)
  • 7. Great Britain (Ruskin, Morris, the Arts and Crafts Movement, The Glasgow Four, Beardsley)
  • 8. Scandinavia and Russia (Munch, Nijinsky and Bakst, Vrubel)
  • Themes
  • 9. Sexuality
  • 10. Modernity
  • 11. Psychology
  • 12. Classicism
  • 13. Nationalism/Orientalism
  • Forward look
  • 14. Modernism - Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Constructivism, Futurism, Surrealism
Literature
  • HOWARD, Jeremy. Art nouveau : international and national styles in Europe. First published. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996, xiv, 240. ISBN 0719041600. info
  • LUCIE-SMITH, Edward. Symbolist art. London: Thames & Hudson, 1972, 216 s. ISBN 0500201250. info
  • WITTLICH, Petr. Česká secese. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1982, 379 s. URL info
  • Huysmans, J.-K., and J. Howard (2009), Against the Grain, Auckland: Floating Press
  • Lombardi, L., and A. Arnone (2009), From Realism to Art Nouveau, New York: Sterling
  • Thomson, R. (2012), Art of the Actual: Naturalism and Style in Early Third Republic France, 1880–1900, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
  • Prettejohn, E. (2012), The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso, London: I.B. Tauris
  • Reeder, R. (1976), ‘Mikhail Vrubel: A Russian Interpretation of “Fin de Siècle” Art’, The Slavonic and East European Review, 54: 323–34
Language of instruction
English
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