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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Completion of the chronology of modern art. Relationship between modern and post-modern art (e.g. the birth of a post-modern philosophy from the spirit of modern art - see Wolfgang Welsch). The theory of postmodernism. Threshold effects at the borderline between modern and post-modern art (e.g. Fluxus). New technological possibilities and the considerations associated with them (video, virtual reality, etc., from Num June Paik onwards). Reflections on the general commodification of art and possible strategy for its utilisation or resistance to it (e.g. Stefan Sagmeister and "design of art" vs. RTMark).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Observation, Demonstration
- Class attendance
- 28 hours per semester
- Preparation for exam
- 28 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course builds on the subject Fundamentals of modern art 1 and continues to develop a theoretical approach to fundamental questions of the relationship between art and architecture. During the lessons, the students are introduced and confronted with important figures of contemporary thinking about art and culture not only in the humanistic environment, but also with mathematicians with special regard to mathematic topology. Overview of topics: 1. Philosophy, science and art, Deleuze and Guatari 2. Paintings outside and inside the head, Stephen M. Kosslyn 3. Percept, affect and concept 4. Verbal and nonverbal components of artistic communication, Nelson Goodman, Noam Chomsky 5. Memory, creativity and abstraction 6. Senses and Reason, Mark Johnson 7. From Neurons to Thought, Michael Arbib 8. Trajectories of maps, diagrams and metaphors 9. Set, variance and coherence, Alain Badiou 10. Creative thinking as a never-ending struggle with chaos 11. Genesis, crystallization and scattering of images 12. Topology of creative thinking
To develop the ability of reflection and contextual thinking. To grasp knowledge of relations of visual art and architecture of that period of time.
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Prerequisites
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Unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Presentation of artistic and creative activities
Examination: written test
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Recommended literature
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Badiou, A. What is People?. New York Colubia University Press, 2016.
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Didi-Huberman, G. Was wir sehen blick uns an. Mnichov DERS, 1999.
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Dreyfus, H. L. Michel Foucault. Praha, 2002.
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Gombrich, E. H. The Uses of Images. London Phaidon, 2006.
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Gombrich, E. The Image and the Eye. Oxford, 1986.
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Svatoňová, K. Mizení. Praha Karolinum, 2018.
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Veyne, P. Foucault, jeho myšlení, jeho osobnost. Praha Filosofia, 2015.
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