Anotace
Time: Thursday 12.30-14.00
Credits: 6 ECTS
Code for master students (beginning with ADU500): ADU500572
Code for undergraduate students (beginning with ADU100): ADU100634
Course description:
Arthur C. Danto defined the „aboutness“ of works of art as the only inescapable trait they all share. Iconology provides one possible way to make sense of art from certain periods and whereabouts, however it contributes to conflations of the contents and the processes. If we look at e.g. contents from czech cultural context, do we get to see connections? Do we get to see more than just the story?
The lectures will be organised as case studies with some theoretical insights from different Postgrads and guest speakers, concentrating chiefly on czech art works, however not exclusively. We will do a couple of excursions to related exhibitions/sites.
The course is open for students of art history, museology, art theory, aesthetics, ethnology, anthropology, literature, philosophy, philology, archeology, film studies, social sciences and other humanities, and really to anybody who's interested. It also aims to offer a course interesting enough for czech students, so that they can practise their English in a friendly environment and meet international students.
Evaluation:
Attendance with max. 3 absences without stating a reason.
There will be a short text to be read before lessons. The text provides a preparatory process for students to think about the topic before the course, which should help them formulate questions/remarks after the speakers´ presentation.
The final lesson will be a colloquium, where participants will be asked to present and discuss their view on a given question, which they will be given beforehand. It will be a question that will be aimed to reflected about things seen on the course, or to be researched in a literature of students´ choice. Active participants of the colloquium do not have to send in written versions of their assignment. Those, who won´t be able to participate in the colloquium, will send texts in a written form around the length of 4 standard pages (One standard page is comprised of 1800 characters with spaces.).
Syllabus:
There are excursions planned. The class will meet directly at the site, at the usual time of the start of the lesson, if not specified otherwise. 16. 2. Introductory course (1) (Classroom) 23.2. Allegory of the Cave and Historical Space (2) (Classroom) 2.3. Symbols in the paintings of Josef Šíma (3) (National Gallery, Trade Fair palace, Prague 7) 9. 3. Guided visit of the exhibition MYTHOS? in Museum Montanelli (Nerudova street 250/13) (4) 16. 3. Spring Man. A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture (5) (Classroom) 23. 3. Allegory and Meaning in the Paintings of Johann Christoph Lischka in Plasy (6) 30. 3. Ruins and melancholy. Allegory according to Walter Benjamin (6) (Classroom)(7) 6. 4. Allegory and Symbolism in the Art of Gustav Klimt (8) (Classrom) 13.4. Visit to Vyšehrad Casemate, meeting at the Brick Gate (9) 20. 4. Long live the Pope! The sculptural programme of the portal of the Regensburg Cathedral and its sudden change (Classroom) 27. 4. ---to be specified---(11) 4. 5. Myth in the art of World War II period (12) (Classroom) 11. 5. Final colloquium (13)