English

4

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Of all faculties

Students will have a basic overview of the history of art, design and exhibiting of ethnic and cultural minorities in the Western world, and at the same time they should acquire the ability to view themes and problems of art and design from an inter-racial and inter-cultural, non-privileged perspective.

No prerequisities.

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Lectures accompanied with slides of reproductions of the key works are supported with class discussions. In case of on-line teaching, the lectures are going to be held via MS Teams and the students present their papers on-line (without submitting it in writing).

Students will be assigned to present a paper (15 minutes) on a chosen topic at the end of the semester and they will submit its written version (5 norm pages at least).
In case of distant teaching, the lectures are going to be held on-line via MS Teams and the students present their papers on-line (without submitting it in writing).

1. Race in the visual arts: separation or integration model? Methodological introduction
2. Harlem Rennaisance (Aaron Dougles, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee, Richmond Barthé), Federal Art Project and its impact on black artists; Black visibility at Chicago 1933 World Fair
3. Human Rights Movement 1960–1980 (San Francisco: Emory Dougles, Black Power; Harlem: The Studio Museum; Chicago: OBAC, AfriCOBRA; New York: Contemporary Black Artists in America show, BECC; Los Angeles: Betye Sara)
4. Asian-American Art (performance art of Winston Tong), key events (Eye to Eye, CHINA: June 4, 1989), institutions (The Asian American Arts Centre), Asian-American architects (I. M. Pei, Shusaku Arakawa)
5. „First black architect“ Paul R. Williams
6. Black modernisms (Emanuel Admassu, Germane Barnes, Sekou Cooke, J. Yolande Daniels, Felecia Davis, Mario Gooden, Walter Hood, Olalekan Jeyifous, V. Mitch McEwen, and Amanda Williams)
7. Intersectionality: Negotiating identity in the work of Frida Kahlo and Felix Gonzáles Torres
8. Exhibiting Blackness: Recent curatorial projects (Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, 2017–2020, and Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, 2021)
9. „Black to the Future“: Visualizing Afrofuturism (Mark Dery's and Alondra Nelson's texts, work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nick Cave, Krista Franklin, group Nigerian American, curatorial projects of Gia Hamilton and King Britt)
10. Roma art and design: Czech approach
11. Students presentations
12. Students presentations

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The aim of the course is to present and discuss the methodological perspectives of ethnic and cultural minority art and the creation of the canon of modern / contemporary art / architecture, while introducing key figures, movements, places, exhibitions and texts that represented the emancipation of ethnic and cultural minorities in visual art / design.

Přednášky probíhají v učebnách FaVU VUT v hodinách určených rozvrhem. Povinná přítomnost není vyžadována.

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Elliott M. Rudwick – August Meier, Black Man in the "White City": Negroes and the Columbian Exposition, 1893, Phylon, vol. 26, No. 4, 1965, s. 354–361 (EN)
Janet Catherine Berlo – Ruth B. Phillips (eds.), Native North American Art, Oxford 1998 (EN)
Karen E. Hudson, The Will and the Way: Paul R. Williams, Architect, New York 1998 (EN)
Heather Hathaway – Josef Jarab – Jeffrey Melnick (eds.), Race and the Modern Artist, Oxford 2003 (EN)
Cary D. Wintz – Paul Finkelman (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Vol. 1 (A-J), Vol. 2 (K-Z), New York 2004 (EN)
Dreck Spurlock Wilson (ed.), African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865–1945, New York; London, 2004 (EN)
Kara Kelley Hallmark, Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists (Artists of the American Mosaic), Westwood, CT, 2007 (EN)
Margo Machida, Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary, Durham, NC, 2009 (EN)
Bridget Cooks, Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 2011 (EN)
Jacqueline Francis, Making Race: Modernism and “Racial Art” in America, Seattle, 2015 (EN)
Julie Ault (Editor), Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Göttingen 2016 (EN)
Mark Godfrey – Zoé Whitley (eds.), Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, New York 2017 (EN)
Laura Kina – Jan Christian Bernabe (eds.), Queering Contemporary Asian American Art, Seattle 2017 (EN)
Paul A Wellington, Black Built: History and Architecture in the Black Community, Paul Wellington 2019 (EN)
Adrienne Brown, The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race, Baltimore, MA, 2019 (EN)
Irene Cheng – Charles L Davis II – Mabel O Wilson (eds.), Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present (Culture Politics & the Built Environment), Pittsburg, 2020 (EN)
Marc Appleton – Stephen Gee, Paul R. Williams, Los Angeles 2021 (EN)
Gannit Ankori (ed.), Frida Kahlo and San Francisco, München 2021 (EN)

26 hours, compulsory