DU1332k Methods of the Art history

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc.
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
Course objectives
The course gives an overview of use of art historical methodology today. After World War II the various methodological approaches to the art history emerged. In the lectures, therefore, we will attempt to explain these issues and methods both as a part of the historical conditions of the academy and the history of visual arts.
Syllabus
  • 1. The Art history, the „art“, the work of art. & 2. The Art historian and the art history. & 3. The Art history after 1945: a) The international conferences. b) The new approaches: iconology, structuralism, existentionalism c) The new empirism: the exhibitions, the catalogues. d) New issues in the 1960s and 1970s. & 4. The Great historians of art in the 1. Half of the 20th ventury: a) Otto Pächt, Kurt Badt, André Chastel, Pierre Francastel, Ernst H. Gombrich, Jan Bialostocki. & 5. The basic categories I.: a) the style; b) the structure. & 6. The basic categories II.: a) the theme, the symbol; b) the function. & 7. The Art history and History (George Kugler, Hayden White, Dominick LaCapra). & 9. The arthistorical approaches I.: a) the connoisseurschip; b) the formalism. & 10. The arthistorical approaches II. c) the iconography-iconology; d) the perception and aesthetics.& 11. The arthistorical approaches III.: e) the history of culture; f) the semiotics. & 12. The approaches of other disciplines: a) the social history of art and the cultural history of art; b) the sociology; c) the psychology and the psychoanalysis. & 13. The applied disciplines on art: a) the arthistorical museology; b) historic preservation; c) the exhibitions, mediation of art and contemporary debates on arts. & 14. Towards a critical History of art. & 15. The topics in the Art history: a) the explaining in the Art history; b) the "New ciceronism ?". &
Literature
  • Fernie, Eric. Art history and its methods. London 1999
  • Schneider Adams, Laurie. The Methodologies of Art. An Introduction. Westview Press 1996
  • Harris, Jonathan. The New Art History. A critical introduction. London-New York 2004
  • Lützeler, Heinrich. Kunsterfahrung und Kunstwissenschaft. Systematische und entwicklungsgeschichtliche Darstellung und Dokumentation des Umgangs mit der Bildenden Kunst I-III. Freiburg-München 1975.
  • Lagoutte, Daniel. Introduction à l histoire de l art. Paris 1997 (2001)
Assessment methods
The course will be taught as a lecture; there will be exam in the form of the written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2010.
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