| Course title | Society and Culture |
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| Course code | KUM/SK |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter |
| Number of ECTS credits | 2 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | Course does not contain work placement |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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1. Introduction - Definition and characterization of basic terms. 2. Creative immersion into privacy or resignation from creation. 3. The private and the public, the shared and the personal in the gallery context. 4. Visual art outside the gallery framework - an expanded concept of art. 5. Activist forms of visual art and subcultural overlaps. 6. Social and political contexts of the exhibition space. 7. Czech art behind the Iron Curtain. 8. The changing role of the author. 9. Conscious and unconscious stereotypes in reading and perceiving artworks and public space. 10. The transformation period after 1990. 11. Galleries in the interspace. 12. Notable recent cases. 13. The motif of corruption and scandal. 14. Summary and loosening of approaches, outline of the structure of the written essay as the final classification output.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing)
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| Learning outcomes |
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The lecture series aims to outline the relationship between some selected moments from the history of visual arts of the 20th century against the background of wider social and political context, taking into account the principles of civil society. Change of the position of an author in terms of permeating professional roles, activist art and other authorial approaches. Illustrations of significant cases from the Czech environment, when the way of art presentation is strongly influenced by the unconscious stereotypes of the past. Role and responsibility of authors and curators. Contemporary cultural policy, form of institutional framework. 1. Introduction - characterization and definition of basic terms. 2. Creative immersion into privacy or resignation to creation. 3. Visual art outside a gallery - extended concept of art. 4. Activist forms of visual art and subcultural overlaps. 5. Czech art behind the Iron Curtain. 6. Period of transformation after 1990. 7. Gallery Galerie v meziprostoru 8. Significant cases of the present. 9. Motive of corruption and scandal.
Basic information needed to perform their field of study |
| Prerequisites |
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Open thinking
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Oral exam
A written essay on one book from the recommended literature + a written essay on a freely chosen topic from the lecture themes, followed by a discussion of the texts. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester |
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