DU2656 The European Modern Art 1911-1915

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Alena Pomajzlová, Ph.D.
Timetable
Mon 13:20–14:55 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The purpose of this course is to present the period of modern European art before World war I. At the and of the course students should be able to interpretate the works of art not only as belonging to the relevant -isms but in a large context of the time.
Syllabus
  • The situation in Europe in the beginning of the 20th century and main works of art before 1911. Intelectual backround of modern art. Anti-mimetic principle. Primitivism and the modern world. Relationship and contradiction of cubism, expresionism, futurism, vorticism and abstract art. Contacts between the artists, main European exhibition, journals. Reflexion of European modern art in central Europe.
Literature
  • 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
  • Central European avant-gardes : exchange and transformation, 1910-1930. Edited by Péter Nádas - Timothy O. Benson - Monika Krol. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003, 447 s. ISBN 0262025221. info
  • GOLDING, John. Cesty k abstraktnímu umění :Mondrian, Malevič, Kandinskij, Pollock, Newman, Rothko a Still. Vyd. 1. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2003, 223 s. ISBN 80-86598-48-9. info
  • KARMEL, Pepe. Picasso and the invention of Cubism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003, xiii, 233. ISBN 0300094361. info
  • Between worlds : a sourcebook of Central European avant-gardes, 1910-1930. Edited by Éva Forgács - Timothy O. Benson. 1st MIT Press ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002, 735 s. ISBN 0262025302. info
  • KRAUSS, Rosalind E. The Picasso papers. 1st MIT Press ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999, xvi, 272. ISBN 0262611422. info
  • ANDĚL, Jaroslav and Dorothy KOSINSKÁ. František Kupka :průkopník abstrakce, malíř kosmu. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1997, 220 s. ISBN 3-7757-0692-5. info
  • LAHODA, Vojtěch. Český kubismus. Vyd. 1. Praha: Brána, 1996, 203 s. ISBN 80-85946-33-5. info
  • ANTLIFF, Mark. Inventing Bergson : cultural politics and the Parisian avant-garde. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993, xii, 237. ISBN 0691032025. info
  • ANTLIFF, Mark. Inventing Bergson : cultural politics and the Parisian avant-garde. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993, xii, 237. ISBN 0691032025. info
  • Picasso and Braque : a symposium. Edited by Lynn Zelevansky - William Rubin - Kirk Varnedoe. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1992, 357 s. ISBN 3791311905. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Qualifying exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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