Course: Art in the Context of Culture 2

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Course title Art in the Context of Culture 2
Course code KFI/UK2HN
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Boháček Martin, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Fraňková Kateřina, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Vaňková Václava, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. The concept of art in the Middle Ages: changes in the concept of "free" and "mechanical" arts. The position of the artist, workshop practice, theoretical manuals, and artistic treatises from the Middle Ages to the early Renaissance. 2. Sacred images and representations of the sacred: the origins of reverence for holy images, cultural and ideological causes of iconoclasm. 3. Early humanism and changes in the concept of the artist in the Renaissance (the origins of artistic biographies and narratives about artists, the Giotto legend, and theoretical concepts - disegno, aria, invenzione). 4. Art and science: scientific discovery of antiquity, the study of linear perspective and anatomy in the 15th and 16th centuries (L. B. Alberti, Pierro della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci, Pirro Ligorio, and others). 5. Art collecting as part of knowledge. The beginnings of collecting, museology, and museography. The birth of the first art galleries in Italy and Europe north of the Alps. 6. Theory of fine arts in the 16th century (Giorgio Vasari, Benedetto Varchi, and the paragone genre, the first art academies in Italy). 7. Architectural theory of art in the early modern period: Vitruvianism and critical revision of Vitruvius' treatise from the 15th to the 17th century, the concept of the five orders and its revision in the 18th century (L. B. Alberti, Sebastiano Serlio, Andrea Palladio, J. B. Fischer of Ehrlach, French academics). 8. Professionalization of literary culture in the Renaissance, Elizabethan poetic concepts, ancient models in English Renaissance poetics. 9. Philip Sidney; defenses of poetry in the context of English Renaissance scholarship and European discussions, E. Spenser, G. Puttenham, B. Jonson. 10. The intellectual circle in Renaissance literary culture and the legacy of Philip Sidney: Robert Sidney, Mary Wroth. 11. Classicism and the emergence of French academies in the 17th century; the growing prestige of artistic disciplines cultivated in academies. A. Du Fresnoy, A. Félibien, N. Poussin. 12. The dispute between the old and the new. Ch. Perault; the influence of the concept of ut pictura poesis: comparing the abilities of painting and poetry in 16th and 17th century reflections. 13. Care of monuments and handling of artistic artifacts in the 17th and 18th centuries: monuments as part of social representation. Modern scientific foundations of museology and monument care, institutionalization of monument care and first legislative regulations, first public museums in Europe.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Discussion, Students' portfolio, Students' self-study, Lecture, Seminar
  • Contact hours - 52 hours per semester
  • Graduate study programme term essay (40-50) - 44 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 50 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 10 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to outline epochs of European culture history
to introduce basic terminology of artistic styles and classification of works of art on non-specialist level
to name the amin characters of the history of European art
Skills
to include a specific work in the relevant historical period and artistic style
to evaluate a specific work of art in a contemporary context
Competences
N/A
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to describe the history of understanding of what art is form medieval times till the 18th century
to characterize particular theories of art
to explain the relations of these theories to the intellectual, social and cultural context of the period
Skills
to analyse and compare theories of art on the basis of lecture of primary and secondary literature
to formulate presuppositions and consequences of various opinions on art and theories of art, which emerged in the period
to evaluate the meaning of these opinions and theories in the context of the European culture
Competences
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Seminar
Textual studies
Self-study of literature
Discussion
Skills
Seminar
Individual study
Students' portfolio
Competences
Lecture
Textual studies
Self-study of literature
Students' portfolio
assessment methods
Knowledge
Oral exam
Combined exam
Seminar work
Individual presentation at a seminar
Skills
Seminar work
Individual presentation at a seminar
Competences
Combined exam
Seminar work
Individual presentation at a seminar
Recommended literature
  • GAVIN, A. (ed.). Sidney?s The Defence of Poesy and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism. London: Penguin Books, 2004. ISBN 0141439386.
  • Gilbert, Katharine Everett; Kuhn, Helmut. Dějiny estetiky. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1965.
  • Harris, J. Three Treatises: The First Concerning Art, the Second Concerning Music, Painting and Poetry, the Third Concerning Happiness. London: I Novrse & P. Vaillant, 1766.
  • Kelly, Michael. Encyclopedia of aesthetics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-512645-9.
  • Lessing, G. E. Láokoón neboli o hranicích malířství a poezie. In: L., G. E., Hamburská dramaturgie, Láokoón, stati. Praha: Odeon, 1980.
  • MARKIEWICZ, H. Ut Pictura Poesis: A History of the Topos and the Problem. New Literary: History, 1987.
  • Perault, Ch. Le Cabinet des Beaux Arts. Paris: Chez g. Edelinck, 1690.
  • Poussin, Nicoilas. Dopisy a dokumenty. Praha, 2002.
  • Sgallová, K., Kroupa, J. K. (eds.). O umění básnickém a dramatickém. Praha. 1997.
  • Staiger, Emil. Základní pojmy poetiky. Praha, 1969.
  • Tatarkiewicz, W. A History of Six Ideas: An Essay in Aesthetics. The Hague, Boston: Nijhoff, 1980. ISBN 9024722330.


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