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Principles for the Master's State Examination 2
FaVU-CPZZ-IIAcad. year: 2017/2018
The first half of the 2-semester course that introduces individual themes of the Master's State Examination. The lectures are delivered by the guarantees of the themes. In each lecture students will be informed on the thematic scope of the specific Master's State Examination's theme and the resources for the individual study.
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2. A relationship between art and architecture. Early avant-gardes (constructivism, de Stijl). Independent Group. Minimalism, site-specific art and their influence on architecture. Socialist Gesamtkunstwerk – a connection between art and architecture in the socialist era. Architecture as a motif in contemporary art (Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor; Dominik Lang, Tomáš Džadoň ad.).
3. The art of action – performative approaches in art of the 2nd half of the 20th century. Anti-Art (Duchamp / Sturtevant), Intermedia (Fluxus – Higgins), Art-Life (Cage / Kaprow), Art as Performance (Barney / Hirst), social utopias (Beuys / FIU), dekonstrukce (Nitsch / OMT), Body-Media (Orlan / Stelarc) subversive performance (Gómez-Peňa / Border Art).
4. Technical image – art and theory of the new media: new media art since the early experiments (Experiments in Art and Technology, The Kitchen) up to the Web 2.0; theory of new media art (Vilém Flusser, Lev Manovich, David Bolter – Richard Grusin).
5. Avant-garde and neo-avant-garde: origin and transformations of the notion of avant-garde (from Saint-Simon to Greenberg); avant-garde and modernism (Adorno, Greenberg, Fried, Krauss); pre-war avant-garde tendencies and their basic ideas (futurism, constructivism, dada, surrealism); post-war neo-avant-gardes (neo-dada, Fluxus, happening, situationism, arte povera, pop-art, minimalism, conceptualism); the critical discussion of the relationship between avant-garde and neo-avant-garde (Bürger, Buchloh, Foster).
6. Conceptual Art / conceptualism: forming the notion and its establishing figures (LeWitt, Kosuth, Art & Language, Piper); dematerialization (Lippard) and deskilling (Baldessari); “orthodox” Anglo-American conceptual art of the end of 60s and beginning of 70s; widening of conceptual approach; institutional critique; conceptualism in Latin America and in East and Middle Europe; post- and/or neo-conceptualism.
7. Participatory art (Stephen Willats, Kateřina Šedá), New Genre Public Art (Mary Jane Jacob, Suzanne Lacy, Suzi Gablik), relational aesthetics (Nicolas Bourriaud), collaborative art: early participatory art (happenings, Fluxus), collective (artistic) identity and engaged art (Yes Men, Guma Guar…).
8. Photography as art: basic insights in theory of photography (Benjamin, Sontag, Barthes); pictorialism and efforts of photography to get close to painting; avant-garde and exploring of the specific artistic possibilities of the medium of photography (Rodchenko, Moholy-Nagy); humanist documentary and reportage photography; use of the documentary character of photography in conceptual and action art; Düssledorf school (Bechers and their pupils – Struth, Gursky); Jeff Wall.
9. Traditional media in the contemporary art: contemporary painting, sculpture or drawing in the international and Czech art; re-mediation of traditional media: new media and sculpture or painting; “innocent” hand, or the revival of handcraft?
10. Contemporary art in the post-socialist countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Key figures of the Polish (Libera, Althamer, Kwiekulik, Olowska), Slovak (Koller, Filko, Ondád), Slovenian (OHO, Irwin), Croatian (Iveković, Stilinović), Hungarian (Little Warsaw), Russian (Kabakovs, Osmolovskij, Chto delat?) art. Archival impulse and ostalgia.
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Recommended reading
Allan KAPROW, Essays on Blurring of Art and Life, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. (EN)
Boris GROYS, Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin; Postkomunistické postskriptum, Praha: AVU, 2010. (CS)
Hal FOSTER, „Co je nového na neoavantgardě?“, Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny, 2010, č. 8, s. 58–85. (CS)
Hal FOSTER, The Art-architecture complex, London – New York: Verso, 2011. (EN)
Hans BELTING – Andrea BUDDENSIEG (eds), Global Art World, Hatje Cantz, 2009. (EN)
Hans-Georg GADAMER, Aktualita krásného. Umění jako hra, symbol a slavnost, Praha: Triáda 2003. (CS)
Jan ZÁLEŠÁK, Umění spolupráce, Praha: VVP AVU, 2011. (CS)
Jeff WALL, „ ‚Známky lhostejnosti‘. Aspekty fotografie (jako) konceptuálního umění“, Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny, 2012, č. 12, s. 58–86. (CS)
Ladislav KESNER (ed.), Vizuální teorie: současné angloamerické myšlení o výtvarných dílech, Jinočany: H&H, 2005. (CS)
Martin HEIDEGGER, „Zrození uměleckého díla“, Orientace, 1968, č. 3, s. 53–62; č. 4, s. 75–83; č. 5, s. 84–94. (CS)
Marvin CARLSON, Performance. A critical introduction, London: Routledge, 2006. (EN)
Petr REZEK, „Setkání s akčními umělci“, Výtvarné umění, 1991, č. 3, s.78–80. (CS)
Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny, Praha: VVP AVU, 2007, č. 1–2. (celé číslo) (CS)
Tomáš DVOŘÁK (ed.), Kapitoly z dějin a teorie médií, Praha: VVP AVU, 2011. (CS)
Wolfgang Ullrich, „Nevinná ruka“, Labyrint revue, 2010, č. 27/28, s. 101–103. (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme Master's
branch AMU , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AGD2 , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AEN , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AS1 , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AGD1 , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AFO , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AIN , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch APD , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AM1 , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AKG , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AS2 , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AVI , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch APE , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AM2 , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch AM3 , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
branch ATD , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory