IM111 Duchamp and Cage Legacy

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 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. Jozef Cseres, PhD.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 12:00–13:40 N21
Prerequisites
Ability to appreciate the importance of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage for modern arts.
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: 1/40, 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
Aim of the course is to inform students about the work of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage and their influence on the modern arts and humanities. Influential works of art by and texts on Duchamp and Cage will be analysed and interpreted during seminars.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to appreciate the importance of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage for modern arts and to interpret their influential works in actual context of humanities.
Syllabus
  • 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
    required literature
  • Cage, John: Silence. Tranzit, Praha, 2010.
  • DUCHAMP, Marcel: Rozmluvy s Pierrem Cabannem. Tranzit, Praha, 2017.
  • Chalupecký, Jindřich: Úděl umělce: Duchampovské meditace. Torst, Praha, 1998.
    not specified
  • De Duve, Thierry: Kant After Duchamp. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts/Londýn, 1998.
  • Lyotard, Jean-François: Duchamp’s Trans/formers. Lapis Pr., 1995.
  • Haladyn, Julian Jason: Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés. Afterall Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts/Londýn, 2010.
  • 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.
  • Brown, Kathan: John Cage Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind. Crown Point Press, San Francisco, 2001.
  • 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.
  • Henderson, Linda Darlymple: Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the "Large Glass" and Related Works. Princeton UP, Princeton, 2005.
  • Sanouillet, Michel – Peterson, Elmer (eds.): The Writings of Marcel Duchamp. DaCapo Press, New York, 1989.
  • Jones, Amelia: Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp. Cambridge UP, Cambridge, 1995
  • Kostelanetz, Richard (ed.): Conversing With Cage. Omnibus Press, Londýn/New York/Sydney, 1989.
  • Nicholls, David (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to John Cage. Cambridge UP, Cambridge, 2002.
Teaching methods
lecture, presentation, class discussion
Assessment methods
presentation, final essay
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022.
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