Course detail
The Art of the Object - summer
FaVU-3UOB-LAcad. year: 2011/2012
The aim of this seminar is to describe by means of phenomenology and philosophical-historical analysis the construction of imanent art category (that of the object) which defines the specific kind of relevant artworks. The methodology will unite historical and theoretical approach to parallel, inverse, and complementary phenomena connected to immanent artistic issues and to broader discourse on art.
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Course curriculum
- the object in pre-war and interwar Czech avantgarde
- the magical object
- concrete objects as "morphological metaphors" (Railich - photogpraphy]
- the natural object (Skala)
- objets trouves (Rykr)
- Duchamp's ready-made
- the object and its found form (the sphere, the cube, etc..)
- the object in 1950s nad 1960s art, pop art
- surrealism
- Joseph Cornell
- sulpture and object
- sculptures as obejcts, wax sculptures
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Basic literature
G. Didi-Huberman, Rovina materiálu. Tvárnost, znepokojení, přežívání, Umění XLVI/1998
Petr Rezek "K jednomu programu a jeho impulzům", in: České umění 1939 - 1999 Programy a impulzy (sborník sympozia) s. 121 - 123, AVU v Praze
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Classification of course in study plans
- Programme VUD Doctoral
branch UMVP_DP , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch UMVP_DP , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective - Programme VUD Doctoral
branch , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
branch , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective