DU2408 Folk Art and Vernacular Culture from the 15th to the 21st century

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Radka Nokkala Miltová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Julia Secklehner, M.Phil., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Radka Nokkala Miltová, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 12:00–13:40 G21, except Mon 21. 4. to Sun 27. 4.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of art history
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course will guide students through the basic concepts, terms, and important topics of folk art from the early modern period to the present.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course the student will be able to:
- understand the concepts of folk art over time
- analyse the various forms and media of folk art and its relationship to so-called high art
- identify different forms of handicrafts and artisanship
Syllabus
  • Early print as popular print? Its impact on modern art
  • Ethnography, costumes and stereotypes
  • Print, mass media and the illustrated press
  • Vernacular architecture
  • Folk Art and “High Art”: painting from the ideal countryside to social realism
  • Regions and places: national symbols and design
  • Minority folk arts and craft practices
  • Wood, metal, glass: Reinventing craft practices
  • Textile works: handicrafts and gender
  • Photography and fashion: making the folk “popular”
Literature
    recommended literature
  • PARSHALL, Peter W., Rainer SCHOCH, David S. AREFORD, Richard S. FIELD a Peter SCHMIDT. Origins of European printmaking : fifteenth-century woodcuts and their public. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005, ix, 371. ISBN 3936688087.
  • O'CONNELL, Sheila. The popular print in England : 1550-1850. 1st pub. London: British Museum Press, 1999, 256 s. ISBN 0714126225.
  • Cooper, Emmanuel. 1991. “ The People’s Art.” Folk Life 30 (1): 49–58. doi:10.1179/043087791798238905.
  • BRIGGS, Asa a Peter BURKE. A social history of the media : from Gutenberg to the Internet. 3rd ed. Malden, Mass.: Polity, 2009, viii, 346. ISBN 9780745644950.
  • Storm, Eric. The Culture of Regionalism. Manchester University Press: 2010.
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion
Assessment methods
final (group) discussion on selected topics (based on the studied materials)
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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