FF:SUSK_38 Applied Art and Design - Course Information
SUSK_38 Chapters from the history of applied arts and design
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Combined Art Studies (programme FF, B-US_) (2)
- Course objectives
- The subject follows the development of craft and applied art from the middle ages to the beginning of the 20th century. The aim is to give a basic overview of the development of furniture, ceramics, porcelain, glass, goldsmiths, textiles and jewelery within the individual style periods.
- Learning outcomes
- The student will be able to get a better orientation in the history of applied art, the knowledge of authors, producers and individual artifacts.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction: basic terms, meaning, literature
- Arts 2. Antique (Greece, Etruscan, Rome): ceramics, glass, goldsmith, furniture
- 3. Furniture of the middleaAges (romanesque period, gothic): basic types of furniture - chest, cupboard, sitting furniture
- 4. Medieval art craft (romanesque period, gothic): ceramics, glass, goldsmiths, textiles
- 5. Furniture and housing culture of the Renaissance period: basic types of furniture - chest, cabinet, seating furniture; decorative techniques
- 6. Craft arts of the renaissance period: majolica, Venetian glass, jewelery, textiles
- 7. Furniture and home culture of the 17th and 18th centuries (manners, baroque, rococo, classicism): basic types of furniture - cabinet, secretary, chest of drawers, table furniture, seating; decorative techniques, manufacturers
- 8. Craft Arts of the 17th and 18th centuries (baroque, rococo, classicism): glass, ceramics, porcelain, textiles, jewelery; manufacturers
- 9. Furniture and craft arts of the 19th century (empire, biedermeier, historism): furniture; glass, faience, porcelain, jewelery, textiles, apparel, jewelery; manufacturers, manufactories, beginnings of industrial production
- 10. The beginnings of design in England: Movement Arts & Crafts, Ch. Dresser, Ch. R. Ashbee, J. Wedgwood, Ch. R. Mackintosh
- 11. Beginning of furniture manufacturing: Gebrűder Thonet, J. & J. Kohn
- 12. Gesamtkunstwerk - architects as interior designers: A. Loos, O. Wagner, J. Hoffmann, K. Moser, Wiener Werkstätte
- 13. Czech Cubism in Architecture and Design: Artěl, Krásná jizba, Pražské umělecké dílny, P. Janák, J. Gočár, V. Hofman, J. Chochol
- Literature
- required literature
- MORANT, Henry de and Gérald GASSIOT-TALABOT. Dějiny užitého umění : od nejstarších dob po současnost. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1983, 573 s. URL info
- recommended literature
- KNOBLOCH, Iva a Radim VONDRÁČEK (eds.). Design v českých zemích 1900–2000. Praha: Academia 2016.
- KOLESÁR, Zdeno. Kapitoly z dějin designu. V českém jazyce vyd. 2., d. V Praze: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová, 2009, 172 s. ISBN 9788086863283. info
- Český kubismus : 1909-1925 : malířství, sochařství, architektura, design. Edited by Jiří Švestka - Tomáš Vlček - Pavel Liška - Jaroslav Anděl. [Praha]: I3 CZ & Modernista, 2006, 455 s. ISBN 8023966596. info
- SPARKE, Penny. Století designu : průkopníci designu 20. století. 1. vyd. Praha: Slovart, 1999, 272 s. ISBN 8072091425. info
- ADLEROVÁ, Alena. Dějiny českého výtvarného umění : 1890/1938. 4. 1. Edited by Vojtěch Lahoda. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1998, 393 s. : i. ISBN 80-200-0587-01. info
- ANDĚL, Jaroslav and Alena ADLEROVÁ. Umění pro všechny smysly :meziválečná avantgarda v Československu. Vyd. 1. Praha: Národní galerie v Praze, 1993, 239 s. ISBN 80-7035-056-3. info
- ADLEROVÁ, Alena. České užité umění : 1918-1938. Vydání první. Praha: Odeon, 1983, 262 stran. URL info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Assessment methods
- Essay, written test, oral exam
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin výuka, 8 hodin konzultace.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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