Course: New Trends of Fine Arts 1

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Course title New Trends of Fine Arts 1
Course code KDA/NT1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Šenk Filip, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Hanzlík Daniel, doc. MgA.
Course content
Lecture topics: 1-2) Jiří Příhoda: The context of the turn of the 1980s and 1990s in art 3-4) Works in the landscape 5-6) On the edge of architecture 7-8) Works in a gallery environment 9-10) Richard Serra: introduction and context of minimalism and post-minimalism 11-12) Works in the landscape 13-14) Sculpture and the city

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
Learning outcomes
The course New Trends in Visual Art 1 combines lectures and guided tours of contemporary art exhibitions. The aim of the course is to identify, using specific examples of artists and trends, the relationships between 20th-century art and contemporary art, where it is necessary to describe the complex relationships between the avant-garde, the neo-avant-garde, and the present, as well as between traditional artistic media and the new media of the digital age, with a higher degree of theoretical reflection. This involves not only the relationships of contemporary art to its predecessors, but also to the transformation in the perception of the world that occurred in the last century as a reflection of current events. Therefore, to understand art, it is often necessary to refer to contemporary scientific and philosophical thought.
General Competencies Students: 1. Perceive contemporary art in the context of cultural, social, and intellectual changes. 2. Integrate knowledge from the fields of visual arts, art theory, philosophy, and science. 3. Seek out and critically utilize relevant sources for their own theoretical reflection. 4. Is familiar with current trends in the visual arts and expresses informed opinions. 5. Ability to formulate and defend one?s own interpretation of works of art.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Combined examination, Essay

Combined, essay evaluation
Recommended literature
  • CORBY, Vanessa. Eva Hesse: longing, belonging and displacement. New encounters. Arts, cultures, concepts. London: I. B. Tauris, 2010. ISBN 978-1-84511-544-9.
  • Foster, Hal. Art since 1900: modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism. London. 2004.
  • FOSTER, Hal. The return of the real: the avant-garde at the end of the century. An October book. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0262061872.
  • KRAUSS, Rosalind E. The originality of the avant-garde and other modernist myths. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986. ISBN 0-262-11093-8.
  • LONG, Christopher. Jiří Příhoda: 2021/2011 Austin, Texas.. Praha, 2021. ISBN 978-80-7437-349-7.
  • MCSHINE, Kynaston; Lynne COOKE a Richard SERRA. Richard Serra: sculpture: forty years. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007. ISBN 978-0-87070-712-4.
  • PŘÍHODA, Jiří; Petr NEDOMA; Christopher LONG a Filip ŠENK. Jiří Příhoda: void. Praha. 2022.
  • SERRA, Richard a Eckhard SCHNEIDER (ed.). Richard Serra: drawings: work comes out of work. Bregenz: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2008. ISBN 978-3-86560-416-3.
  • SERRA, Richard a Hal FOSTER. Conversations about sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-300-23596-8.
  • SERRA, Richard a Hal FOSTER. Richard Serra: the matter of time. Bilbao: Guggenheim, 2005. ISBN 978-3865211378.


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