DU2320 History of Photography in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lukáš Bártl, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lukáš Bártl, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Monday 12:00–15:40 K33
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
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.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- to focus on the main trends in the 20th-century photography;
- identify and characterize main representatives;
- to identify and summarize the main theoretical concepts, interpretative procedures and their representatives;
- to have better competencies to interpret Czech and world photography of the 20th century
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
  • Karel Císař (ed.), Co je to fotografie?, Praha 2004
  • Antonín Dufek, kapitoly v: V. Lahda (ed.), Dějiny českého výtvarného umění IV, 1890-1938, I-II. Academia, Praha 1998.
  • 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.
  • Diana Emery Hulick with Joseph Marshall. Photography 1900 to the present. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1998.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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