Syllabus
Outline of the lecture series:
- Characteristics of the field, its subject, content and structure, classification, concepts and functions of art
- Basic terminology of art history
- Methods of art history and auxiliary sciences of art history
- The origin and history of the field
- The history of collecting, history of art collections
- Principles and methods of art-historical research
Annotation
A series of lectures on introduction to art history teaches students about the history of the field, its basic concepts and terminology, working methods, institutions related to the history of art and instruments to study the field.
Attention will be also paid to the position of art history in the hierarchy of historical sciences, as well as to comparison of the system of studies of art history in Czech republic and abroad, art criticism and questions of museum and gallery installations. Lecture will also teach students the correct form of writing scientific papers. Last but not least, lectures will also affect the relation of religious monuments with their original context. This series of lectures thus conveys listeners definition of art history as a field of historical sciences, with his tools in the broadest sense, together with an indication of the importance of specific forms of knowledge that art history enrich humanities.