Sylabus
Selected Topics from the Czech Art History V
Winter Semester of 2021/2022
Viktória Beličáková
Gender and Sexuality during Socialism
The lecture will explore the topics of gender, sexuality and intimacy in visual arts during socialism in Czechoslovakia. It will present several key authors of this period, the overall context in which they worked, and it will tackle topics of materiality, performativity, corporeality and other foundational characteristics of these practices. Moreover, the lecture will discuss this phenomenon from contemporary perspective, placing it in the broader context of Eastern Europe and reflecting on similarities and differences of these practices across the region. Finally, the lecture will discuss the relevance of feminist framework when analyzing this topic.
Literature:
Iveta Jusová – Jiřina Šiklová (eds): Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe., Indiana University Press, 2016
Bojana Pejić (ed): Gender Check, A Reader: Art and Theory in Eastern Europe, Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010
Bojana Pejić (ed.), Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe. Cologne: Walter König, 2009
Kateřina Lišková: Sexual liberation, socialist style : Communist Czechoslovakia and the science of desire, 1945-1989, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018
Kateřina Lišková: Sex under socialism: From emancipation of women to normalized families in Czechoslovakia, Sexualities 19 (1–2), s. 211–235, 2016
Marianne A. Ferber, Raabe Hutton, Women in the Czech Republic: Feminism, Czech Style, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 16, No. 3., Toward Gender Equity: policies and Strategies, 2003, s. 407-430
Susanne Lozo, Katarina Wagner Hilke: The Medea Insurrection. Radical Women Artists behind the Iron Curtain, 2019
Tomáš Pospiszyl: An associative art history: comparative studies of neo-avant-gardes in a bipolar world, Praha: tranzit.cz, 2017
Tomáš Pospiszyl: Reading Performances. Literary Aspects of Conceptual and Performance Art in Eastern Europe. Sandra Frimmel, Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen, Katalin Krasznahorkai, Nastasia Louveau, Dorota Sajewska, Sylvia Sasse (eds.). 2020. Doing Performance Art History. http://www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/apparatus/article/view/192/468
Taťána Petrasová – Rostislav Švácha (eds.), Art in the Czech Lands 800–2000, Praha: Artefactum – Arbor vitae societas, 2017
Gender and Sexuality in the 90s and 00s
The lecture will discuss the art practices that tackle gender identity and gendered experience during the 90s and 00s in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This period brought a strong generation of female artists, as well as art historians and theoreticians, who dealt with gender, intimacy and sexuality. They were reflecting on impulses from Wester Feminism, while considering the local context and their predecessors who addressed similar topics in the previous period.
Literature:
Iveta Jusová – Jiřina Šiklová (eds): Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016
Zuzana Štefková: Naked Babes, Macho Feminists, and Queer Eyes. Curating Gender in Contemporary Czech and Slovak Exhibition Practice, In: Mária Orišková (ed): Curating 'Eastern Europe' and beyond: art histories through the exhibition, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013
Martina Pachmanová: The Muzzle: Gender and Sexual Politics in Contemporary Czech Art [online], ArtMargins, https://artmargins.com/the-muzzle-gender-and-sexual-politics-in-contemporary-czech-art/
Eva Kalivodová: Czech Society in-between the Waves, European Journal of Women’s Studies 12 (4), London 2005
Rebecca Nash: Exhaustion from Explanation: Reading Czech Gender Studies in the 1990s, European Journal of Women’s Studies 9 (3), London 2002
Marianne A. Ferber, Raabe Hutton, Women in the Czech Republic: Feminism, Czech Style, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 16, No. 3., Toward Gender Equity: policies and Strategies, 2003, s. 407-430
Bojana Pejić (ed): Gender Check, A Reader: Art and Theory in Eastern Europe, Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010
Bojana Pejić (ed.), Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe. Cologne: Walter König, 2009
Ana Janevski, Roxana Marcoci, Ksenia Nouril (eds): Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: Critical Anthology, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2018
Ing. Mgr. Markéta Čejková
Czech Modernism in Architecture (focused on Prague)
The lecture will outline the Czech architectural modernism between the world wars with the special focus on Prague. The economic, political and cultural specifics will be briefly discussed first to explain the unique situation of Czechoslovakia as a newly established democracy. The lecture will then cover the individual as well as collective housing with excellent examples of Villa Müller designed by Adolf Loos, the housing estate Baba built in Prague 6 by almost exclusively Czech architects continuing with examples of other than housing architecture.
Literature:
Premysl Veverka, Radomira Sedlakova, Petr Krajci, Zdenek Lukes, Dita Dvorakova, Pavel Vlcek: Great Villas of Prague, Prague 2008
Petr Urlich (ed), Lenka Popelová, Radomíra Sedláková, Pavel Skranc, Pavel Vlček, Petr Vorlík: Great Buildings of Prague 6, Prague 2009
Jana Hornekova, Karel Ksandr, Maria Szadkowska, Vladimir Slapeta: Villa Müller, Prague 2002
Lecture 2: Villa Müller, entrance fee, limited number of participants
The lecture will be held in Villa Müller, designed by Adolf Loos and being an excellent example of modernist architecture. The tour will be focused on the architecture and Raumplan, original design concept developed by Adolf Loos and will also cover the history of the villa and the family as well as the furniture, fittings and art inside the villa.
Literature:
Jana Hornekova, Karel Ksandr, Maria Szadkowska, Vladimir Slapeta: Villa Müller, Prague 2002
Lucie Daňková
The Phenomenon of Japonisme in Czech Art
The lecture will focus on the phenomenon of Japonisme in the Czech lands - specifically on the popularity of Japanese art and its influence on Czech art from the 1880s to the early 20th century. Local collectors of Japanese art will also be discussed.
Literature:
Helen BURNHAM / Sarah THOMPSON / Jane BRAUN: Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan. Boston 2014 Karel FIALA: First Contacts of Czechs and Slovaks with Japanese Culture (Up to World War I): The Major Publications and Personalities. In: Japan Review 3, 1992, 47–55 Markéta HÁNOVÁ: Japonisme in the fine arts of the Czech lands. Prague 2010 Markéta HÁNOVÁ: Japonisme in Czech art. Prague 2014 Markéta HÁNOVÁ: Emil Orlik: From Japan. In: Journal of Japonisme Vol. 3 Issue 1, December 2018, 84–105 Markéta HÁNOVÁ: Japanese Woodblock Prints and Collectors in the Czech Lands. Prague 2019 Libuse CHMIELOVÁ: The Japanese art collection of the National Gallery and a brief history of Japanese art appreciation in the Czech Republic. In: Report of Japanese Art Abroad Research Project, vol. 4, xii–xvii. The International Research Center for Japanese Studies/Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 5, 1994 Siegfried WICHMANN: Japonisme: The Japanese Influence on Western Art Since 1858. London 1999
Romantic Landscape Architecture of the Czech Lands
The lecture will focus on pavilions and other small architectural structures in Bohemian and Moravian landscape parks from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Can be combined with an excursion.
Literature:
Marie BENESOVA, : Les trois périodes du néo-gothique en Bohême. In: A. BOUSAGLIA / V. TERRAZOLI (eds.): Il Neogotico nel XIX e XX secolo. Milano 1989, 128 Ambra EDWARDS: The Story of the English Garden. London 2018 Karel KUČA: Castles, Country Houses and other Monuments in the Care of the National Heritage Institute. Prague 2009 Taťána PETRASOVÁ: The Origins of Prague Neo-Gothic Architecture. In: Umění XLIV, 1996, 499–513 Taťána PETRASOVÁ / Rostislav ŠVÁCHA (eds.): Art in the Czech Lands 800–2000. Prague 2017 Roman PRAHL: Prag 1780-1830: Kunst und Kultur zwischen den Epochen und Völkern. Prague 1999 David WATKIN: The English Vision: The Picturesque in Architecture, Landscape and Garden Des
Anotace
Selected Topics from the Czech Art History V
Vybraná témata českých dějin umění V
Cyklus přednášek v angličtině pro zahraniční studenty, zimní semestr 2021/2022
Název kurzu: Selected Topics from the Czech Art History V / Vybraná témata českých dějin umění V
Čas konání kurzu: každé úterý od 15:50 do 17:25 (učebna č. 415)
Garant kurzu: PhDr. Lenka Šimková
Charakter kurzu: uměleckohistorické cvičení
Způsob ukončení kurzu: zkouška písemnou formou
Ohodnocení kredity: 4 kredity
Podmínky úspěšného zakončení kurzu: úspěšné složení písemné zkoušky a alespoň 75% účast na kurzu.
Studenti na začátku kurzu obdrží kompletní seznam přednášejících a jejich témat včetně krátké charakteristiky každé přednášky a doporučené literatury. Podle tohoto dokumentu si co nejdříve zvolí přednášejícího, u nějž budou chtít zkoušku složit, kontaktují jej a domluví se s ním na konkrétních podmínkách. Písemná práce musí být v rozsahu 6 – 10 normostran včetně poznámkového aparátu a literatury. Zvolenému přednášejícímu pak práci na konci kurzu odevzdají, ten ji ohodnotí a domluví se se studentem na krátkém osobním pohovoru nad prací.
Charakteristika kurzu: The course is specifically designed for foreign students coming to Prague to learn more about Czech art and its historical, political and social context. However, the aim of the course is not simply to summarize the most important facts, artists and artworks but rather to introduce the students to a selection of interesting moments in the Czech art history with the help of a range of interdisciplinary approaches and new methodological tools. As for the time period, the course will cover the period from the ninetieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Kurz je vytvořen speciálně pro potřeby zahraničních studentů, kteří přijeli do Prahy, aby se dozvěděli více o českém umění a jeho historickém, politickém a sociálním kontextu. Přesto však cílem kurzu není jen podání prostého přehledu nejdůležitějších faktů, umělců a jejich děl, ale spíše seznámení studentů s několika vybranými zajímavými momenty české historie umění, a to s pomocí interdisciplinárního přístupu a nových metodologických nástrojů. Časově kurz pokryje období od devatenáctého po začátek jednadvacátého století.
Seznam přednášejících a názvů přednášek (řazeno abecedně):
Mgr. Viktória Beličáková
• Gender and Sexuality during Socialism (lecture)
• Gender and Sexuality in the 90s and 00s (lecture)
Ing. Mgr. Markéta Čejková
• Markéta Čejková: Czech Modernism in Architecture (focused on Prague) (lecture)
• Villa Müller (excursion – entrance fee)
Mgr. Lucie Daňková
• Romantic Landscape Architecture of the Czech Lands
• The Phenomenon of Japonisme in Czech Art
Mgr. Tereza Havelková
• The Surrealism and Socialist realism in Czech context (lecture)
• Mythology in Czech Modern Painting (lecture)
Mgr. Klára Jarolímková
• The Artificialism of Štyrský and Toyen and the Czech avant-garde of Twenties (lecture)
• The Northern Renaissance Paintings of the Lobkowicz Collections (excursion – entrance fee)
PhDr. Lenka Šimková
• Art at Play: The Element of Playfulness in Czech Modern Art (lecture)
• Czech Action Art through the Eyes of Photography (lecture)
Selected Topics from the Czech Art History V
List of Lectures – Winter Semester 2021/2022 5.10. Lenka Šimková: Art at Play: The Element of Playfulness in Czech Modern Art (lecture) 12.10. Tereza Havelková: Mythology in Czech Modern Painting (lecture) 19.10. Klára Jarolímková: The Artificialism of Štyrský and Toyen and the Czech avant-garde of Twenties (lecture) 26.10. Lucie Daňková: Romantic Landscape Architecture of the Czech Lands (excursion – entrance fee) 2.11. Markéta Čejková: Czech Modernism in Architecture (focused on Prague) (lecture) 9.11. Lucie Daňková: The Phenomenon of Japonisme in Czech Art (lecture) 16.11. Viktória Beličáková: Gender and Sexuality during Socialism (lecture) 23.11. Markéta Čejková: Villa Müller (excursion – entrance fee) 30.11. Tereza Havelková: The Surrealism and Socialist Realism in Czech Context (lecture) 7.12. Klára Jarolímková: The Northern Renaissance Paintings of the Lobkowicz Collections (excursion – entrance fee) 14.12. Viktória Beličáková: Gender and Sexuality in the 90s and 00s (lecture) 4.1. Lenka Šimková: Czech Action Art through the Eyes of Photography (lecture)