SUS_122 The Culture History of Bohemia in in the years 1890-1938

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Miroslav Jeřábek, Ph.D. (lecturer), PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková (deputy)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Miroslav Jeřábek, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 16:00–17:40 N51, except Wed 17. 4.
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 160 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 19/160, only registered: 0/160, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/160
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The lectures are oriented to the cultural history of the Czech nation in the 20th century.
Learning outcomes
The student is able to explain the phenomenon of czech politics, culture and art in the 20th century.
Syllabus
  • 1) The manifesto of Czech Modernism, art magazines, and publishing houses at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Art Nouveau architecture and visual art. 2) Modernist and Cubist architecture, the Osma Artistic Association. Czech and German journalism and literary scene before 1914. 3) The Czech minority in Vienna, an overview of Czech emigration to the USA, France, England, and Tsarist Russia before 1914. Industrial traditions of the Czech lands. 4) Czech artists in the resistance and on the fronts of World War I. The reflection of war events in literature, theater, visual art, and architecture. Attempts to create a Czech national style in architecture in the first half of the 1920s. 5) Changes in the lifestyle of society from the 1890s to the 1930s. The rise of silent film, sports, hiking, and jazz. Sports and art, sports architecture. 6) Functionalism in architecture, its growth in Brno from 1925 to 1939 7) Functionalism in architecture in Prague, Hradec Králové, and Zlín. The cultural phenomenon of Bata's Zlín. 8) Czech avant-garde during the First Czechoslovak Republic and its echo in Europe. Karel Teige, Jindřich Štýrský, Toyen, Vítězslav Nezval, Bohuslav Brouk. 9) The peaks of Czech and German journalism and book culture during the First Czechoslovak Republic. Ferdinand Peroutka, Lidové noviny, and Přítomnost. 10)Memoir literature focused on the First Czechoslovak Republic - memoirs of František Weyr, Václav Černý, Zdeněk Kalista, Julius Firt, and Ivan Jelínek.
Literature
    required literature
  • KROUTVOR, Josef. Potíže s dějinami : eseje. V této podobě vyd. 1. Praha: Prostor, 1990, 143 s. ISBN 808519001X. info
    recommended literature
  • MAREK, Jaroslav. Česká moderní kultura. Vydání první. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1998, 335 stran. ISBN 8020406743. info
  • MĚŠŤAN, Antonín. Česká literatura mezi Němci a Slovany. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2002, 319 s. ISBN 8020007512. info
  • LAHODA, Vojtěch a kol.: Dějiny českého výtvarného umění 1890-1938 (IV., 1,2). Praha 1998.
  • ZÍDEK, Petr (Ed.): Osobnosti Lidových novin. Životní příběhy lidí, kteří vytvářeli nejstarší český deník (1893-1989). Praha 2014.
  • NOVÝ, Otakar. Česká architektonická avantgarda. Vyd. 1. Praha: Prostor, 1998, 479 s. ISBN 80-85190-70-2. info
  • PIORECKÁ, Kateřina and Karel PIORECKÝ. Praha avantgardní : literární průvodce metropolí v letech 1918-1938. Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, 2014, 564 stran. ISBN 9788020024428. info
  • HORÁČEK, Martin. Naprej! : česká sportovní architektura 1567-2012. Edited by Rostislav Švácha. Vyd. 1. Praha: Prostor - architektura, interiér, design, 2012, 325 s. ISBN 9788087064085. info
  • DEMETZ, Peter. České slunce, moravský měsíc : eseje a vzpomínky. Translated by Hana Žantovská - Anna Siebenscheinová - Ladislav Nezdařil. Vyd. 1. Ostrava: Tilia, 1997, 150 s. ISBN 8070424648. info
  • POKLUDA, Zdeněk. Sedm století zlínských dějin. 2., dopl. a rozš. vyd. Zlín: Esprit, 2006, 174 s. ISBN 8023972006. info
  • KUDĚLKA, Zdeněk – CHATRNÝ, Jindřich: O nové Brno: brněnská architektura, 1919-1939 (katalog) Brno, Muzeum města Brna, 2000. 444 s.
  • RIEDL, Dušan. Brněnská architektura 20. století. Vyd. 1. Brno: Památkový ústav, 1992, 48 s. ISBN 8085032147. info
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
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