Syllabus
A) Art before the First World War (birth of modernism, abstract tendencies in art, etc.)
B) Art in the interwar period (Dada, Surrealism, Poetism, Constructivism, abstraction, art of totalitarian regimes, etc.)
C) Art after World War II (Abstract Expressionism, Socialist Realism, Art Brut, Pop Art, Conceptualism, etc.)
D) Contemporary art
Annotation
The course focuses on the interpretation of modern "isms" before the First World War and pays attention to the situation of interwar art in the world and in the Czech lands. It then focuses on the description, characterization and interpretation of the development of art after World War II and the various artistic tendencies in the postmodern situation, extending to the present.
Consultations in English available.