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Contemporary Art Theory - summer
FaVU-3TSVU-LAcad. year: 2011/2012
After the end of modernism as the chief paradigm of 20th century art, history and theory of contemporary art looks as a chaotic amalgam of contrary tendencies which are sometimes, not very fittingly, coined as postmodernism. Theory of contemporary art monitors current tendencies on the international art scene.
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- Clement Greenberg and his pupils
- art and social subversion, Fluxus
- Guy Debord
- minimalism and Pop Art, the Deal of te Audiences and Art in 20th century. Leo Steinberg.
- Andy Warhol and Donald Judd.
- dematerialization of art and new approaches to traditional artistic genres
Alan Kaprow
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75% attendance
oral paper twice per a semester
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Basic literature
Hans Belting, Konec dějin umění, Mladá fronta, Praha 2000
Jiří Ševčík, Pavlína Morganová, Dagmar Dušková (ed.), České umění 1938-1989, Academia, Praha 2001
Nicolas Bourriaud, Postprodukce, Tranzit, Praha 2004.
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art; A Sourcebook of Artists's Writings, ed. Kristine Stiles a Peter Selz, University of California Press, Berkeley 1996.
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