Syllabus
Program: 17. 2. Introduction 24. 2.
Czech culture between 1939-1945 3. 3. Reflection of World War II in Czech art 10. 3.
Czech official culture between 1948 – 1958 17. 3. Forbidden art in the 1950s 24. 3.
Czech culture between 1958-1968 31 3. Czech official culture between 1969-1989 7. 4.
Czech unofficial culture between 1969-1989 14. 4. Czech culture in the 1990s 28. 4.
The most famous moments of Czech (and Czechoslovak) sport from 1939 to the present 5. 5. Contemporary phenomena of Czech culture I. 12. 5.
Contemporary phenomena of Czech culture II.
Annotation
The course focuses on cultural developments in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic from 1939 to the present. The key moments of cultural life of the period will be confronted and analysed not only on the basis of relevant texts of primary literature, but also in the context of the performing, visual and applied arts, as well as the changes in political and social life.
