Course detail

A Survey of Czech Art of the 1st Half of the 20th Century

FaVU-1CU20-ZAcad. year: 2010/2011

Overview of art styles, personalities and tendencies in painting and sculpture in the Czech lands in the 20th century. The attention is paid to the phenomena which incorporate or follow expressionism, cubism, surrealism, abstraction, as well as to the transformations in the landscape painting and to period decorativeness or retrograde tendencies.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Pavel Ondračka

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Basic phenomenons and personalities of the Czech XXth Century Art.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of the history of the Czech lands and their culture.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Credit conditions: attendance in lectures.

Course curriculum

1. Czech art after the beginning of the 20th century, inter-war generation, expressive, cubist-expressive, cubist, symbolist tendencies.
2. Styles and movements in the 1920s and 1930s. Devětsil, surrealism, abstraction.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Ability to orientate in basic phenomenons and personalities of fine arts in the Czech lands and in Europe.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Lestures are optional.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Dějiny českého výtvarného umění IV (1890 - 1938), Academia 1998
Jan M.Tomeš - Jindřich Prucha, Praha, Odeon 1987
Nová encylopedie českého výtvarného umění, Praha 1995
Pavla Pečínková - Josef Lada (1887-1957), Obecní dům 2008
Petr Wittlich, České sochařství ve 20.století : 1890-1945, Praha 1978
Rea Michalová - Klasicismus v moderním umění, Michal´s Collection, 2007 (1. vydání)
Vojtěch Lahoda, Karel Srp, Petr Wittlich, Marie Rakušanová -

Recommended reading

Český kubismus 1909-1925 (ed. Jiří Švestka, Tomáš Vlček, Pavel Liška), Stuttgart 1991
Český surrealismus 1929-1953 (ed. Lenka Bydžovská, Karel Srp), GHMP - Argo 1996
Expresionismus a české umění 1905-1927 (ed. Alena Pomajzlová), NG 1995
František Šmejkal, České imaginativní umění, Rudolfinum 1996
František Šmejkal, Devětsil. Česká výtvarná avantgarda 20. let , DUMB - GHMP 1986
František Šmejkal, Lyrický a imaginativní kubismus 1926-1935, DUMB 1983
Hana Rousová, Český neoklasicismus 20. let I-II, GHMP 1985, 1989
Jiří Padrta, Osma a Skupina výtvarných umělců 1907-1917. Teorie, kritika, polemika, 1992
Karel Srp, Tvrdošíjní I. - Tvrdošíjní a hosté, GHMP 1986 - 1987
Linie, barva, tvar v českém výtvarném umění 30. let (ed. Hana Rousová), GHMP 1988
Marie Rakušanová - Bytosti odnikud, Academia 2008 (akademické umění 1. pol.20. století)
Miroslav Lamač - Osma a Skupina výtvarných umělců, 1988
Sursum 1910 - 1912 (ed. Hana Larvová), GHMP 1996
Umění pro všechny smysly. Meziválečná avantgarda v Československu (ed. Jaroslav Anděl), NG 1993
Vojtěch Lahoda, Český kubismus, 1997.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch APE , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AMU , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AEN , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AVI , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch APD , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch APK , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AS1 , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AIN , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AGD , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AM1 , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AGR , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AS2 , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AM3 , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AM2 , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch ATD , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

52 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Pavel Ondračka

Syllabus

1. České umění od počátku století, mezigenerace, expresívní, kuboexpresívní, kubistické, symbolistické tendence.
2. Směry 20. a 30. let. Devětsil, surrealismus, abstrakce.