History of Art I. WA/A/HSzt1-R2-Z

Lectures are conducted in a chronological (epoch, works) and diachronic system (cross-sectional topics, such as nude, perspective, illusion and portrait). Learning the selected methodology of the New History of Art (NAH) by students

Scope of individual topics:
1. Introduction to the history of art (basic concepts of art history, iconographic analysis, symbol, allegory, attribute, perspective, color, elements of selected non-European cultures, selected theories of art - in outline). Art History//Visual Culture
2. Prehistoric art and the first artifacts. Review of contemporary research proposals. Palaeolithic cave as a "space of cultural adaptation". Mask as a representation of the absent - the birth of art.
3. Ancient civilizations (Egypt, Greece, Rome) Basic concepts in the history of architecture, sculpture, painting. Learning the basic terminology (archaic, classical and Hellenistic period of Greek art; architectural orders). Aesthetic theories. Gender policy in ancient Greece and Rome (on the example of Greek / Roman house premises). Ancient nudity. The history of clothing in antiquity. Ancient theater.
4. The beginnings of old Christian art (Eastern and Western Christianity - the birth of Christian symbolism and their sources in the ancient tradition. Christian iconography: the Christological Cycle and the Marian Cycle. Selected examples. Antiquity in early Christian art.
5. Middle Ages - Romanesque architecture and sculpture. "Other" of the Middle Ages. The gothic cathedral and its architectural program. Court culture and international style (Burgundy, France, Austria, Czech Republic); The History of Clothing in the Middle Ages. The Body Practices in the Middle Ages: Cleanliness and Dirt. Bourgeois culture. Art market.
6. The main centers of the Renaissance. Global art circulation: graphics. Was there bourgeois painting? Birth of the portrait. The history of clothing.
Act: from Giorgione to Vanessa Beecroft.
8. "Melancholia" by Durer and Lars von Trier.
9. Mannerism and early baroque: Caravaggio.
10. Why were there no great female artists? Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi and others.
11. The art of the Counter-Reformation: illusionist painting.
12. Rococo and European court culture. From King the Sun to Marie Antoinette - court fashion in the 17th / 18th century, and contemporary theater and film stagings.
Culture of intimacy - history of interiors. Colonialism.
13. Art of the Great French Revolution and the Empire. A new audience for art. Lounges.
14. Romanticism. Goya and the horrors of war. Abject in ar. "The horrors of war" and the art of the 20th century. Caspar David Friedrich and the romantic landscape. Romantic horror. Gothic.
15th century: Academism. Orient in 20th century painting in postcolonial perspective.
16. 19th century: Optical experiments, theories of perception and the beginning of modernity: Photography.
17. Disassembly of the visual field. Manet, Cezanne, Seurat.
18. Paris of the nineteenth century: why painting Impressionists could not paint the same as the Impressionist painters.
19. The birth of mass culture.
20. Neocolonialism and art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
21. Futurism as an anthropological project.
22. Theory of the avant-garde: T. Buerger.
23. Deserters of the Great War: Dadaism.
24. Duchamp. Ready-mades and consumer culture.
Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach.
25. Surrealism. Convulsive beauty.
26. Bauhaus and design in the USA.
27. Le Corbusier and contemporary architecture.
28. Totalitarian art and architecture: Italy, Germany, Soviet Union.
29. Artistic geography after World War II: New York as a new Paris.
30. US Artistic Hegemony: Abstract Expressionism.