Course detail
Theory and Art in the 20th Century 2 - winter
FaVU-TU-ZAcad. year: 2023/2024
The course will introduce students to key terminology and approaches of contemporary art theory and criticism. During the course, students will learn about the dominant methodological approaches to art theory of the 20th century (marxisma and post-marxism, psychoanalysis, phenomenology and hermeneutics, analytic philosophy, structuralism and post-structuralism, feminism, and post-modernism. Each of the aforementioned theoretical approach will be introduced though the elucidation of its basic concepts and key figures and afterwords will be applied to modern and contemporary art. The course graduate should be able to understand the "jargon" of contemporary critical and theoretical text and should be able to identify them with the corresponding philosophical school.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Lectures are optional.
Aims
The graduates of the class should be capable of reading and reflecting texts of actual art criticism and art theory so that they could place them in the relevant methodological streem in the theory of the 20th century. This orientation should empower them to understand thinking about art in its wider philosophical, social and political frameworks.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Konrad Paul LIESSMANN, Filozofie moderního umění, Olomouc: Votobia 2000
Hal FOSTER – Rosalind KRAUSSOVÁ – Yve-Alain BOIS – Benjamin H. D. BUCHLOH, Umění po roce 1900. Modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus, Praha: Slovart 2007
Recommended reading
Josef FULKA, Psychoanalýza a francouzské myšlení, Praha: Herrmann & synové 2008
Tomáš POSPISZYL, Před obrazem. Antologie americké výtvarné teorie a kritiky, Praha: OSVU 1998
Jean-François LYOTARD, O postmodernismu (Postmoderno vysvětlované dětem, Postmoderní situace), Praha: Filosofický ústav AV ČR 1993
Wolfgang WELSCH, Naše postmoderní moderna, Praha: Zvon 1994
Manfred FRANK, Co je neostrukturalismus?, Praha: Sofis 2000
Ladislav KESNER, Vizuální teorie. Současné anglo-americké myšlení o výtvarných dílech¸ Jinočany: H&H 2005.
Terrence HAWKES, Strukturalismus a sémiotika, Brno: Host 1999
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme VUM Master's
branch VU-D , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-D , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-D , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-VT , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-VT , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-VT , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-VT , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-VT , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-VT , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
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Syllabus
2. Existentialism
3. Structuralism. Its basic concepts and methods. From Saussure to Levi-Strauss.
4. Western marxism. Frankfurt school of critical theory. Althusser.
5. Analytical philosophy. Frege, Wittgenstein, Austin
6. Poststructuralism in pschoanalysis and in the theory of literature. Lacan, Barthes
7. Foucault
8. Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Baudrillard
9. Pheminism in theory. From Simone de Beauvoir to Judith Butler
10. Postmodernism. Lyotard. Postmodernism in the theory of architecture (Jencks, Venturi) and in the art criticism (October).
11. Postmarxism and critique of postmodernism. Jameson, Laclau, Mouffe, Ranciere, Žižek, Badiou.