Art History 2 WOT/L/HistSzt2-L
Lectures on the history of art in a chronological system (epochs, works) and diachronic cross-sectional topics, such as nude, perspective, illusion or portrait), in accordance with the New History of Art (NAH) methodology
Scope of individual topics:
1. Prehistoric art: Review of contemporary research proposals. Palaeolithic cave as a "space of cultural adaptation". Mask as a representation of the absent - the birth of art.
2-6. Ancient civilizations (Egypt, Greece, Rome) Basic concepts and basic terminology. Aesthetic theories. Gender policy in ancient Greece and Rome (Greek / Roman house). History of clothing in the Ancient world. Ancient theater.
7. Christian art (Eastern and Western Christianity). Christian iconography. Antiquity in early Christian art.
8. Middle Ages - Romanesque architecture and sculpture. "Other" in the Middle Ages art. Gothic cathedral and The Gothic revival in XIX century.
9. European Sculpture of XIII-XV century. Study lecture at the Medieval Art Gallery at the National Museum in Warsaw.
10. Court culture and international style (Burgundy, France) - fashion and arts and crafts.
11. Practices of the body in the 14th-18th centuries art.
12-13. Van Eyck's "The Arnolfini", "bourgeois portrait" and other myths about Burgund and Dutch painting + Study lecture at the Gallery of the Dutch Masters in National Museum in Warsaw.
14. The Female Nude: from Giorgione to Vanessa Beecroft.
15. "Melancolia" by Albrecht Dürer and Lars von Trier.
16. Why were there no great female artists? Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi and others.
17. From Alberti to Microsoft: an excursion on perspective.
18. Europe of Early Capitalism: Florence of the Medici.
19. The Anxiety of Influence: Bernini and Michelamgelo.
20. Eye trapped: illusion in architecture and painting from rhyparography to street art.
21. Wound morphology: Caravaggio i Marina Abramović.
22. Invention of Childhood: Art as a historical source.
23. From King Sun to Marie Antoinette - 17th / 18th century court fashion, and contemporary theater and film stagings.
24. The Royal Castle in Warsaw: the monarch's residence and architectural dummy. Some problems of restoration (study lecture at the Castle).
25. The catastrophes they liked: about the Sublime
26. The Great French Revolution and the Empire. The Bourgeoisie in the Salons.
27. Goya and the horrors of war: violence in the art of the 19th and 20th centuries.
28. Caspar David Friedrich and the Romantic Landscape.
29-30. Study lectures at the Gallery of the 19th century Painting of the National Museum in Warsaw.
Cycle II: History of modern art, continued.
1. When we have been modern: theoretical excursion.
2. 19th century art: Optical experiments, theories of perception. An introduction to modernity.
3. Orient in 19th century painting in postcolonial perspective.
4. Academic art. Polish painting of the 19th century. Study lecture at the National Museum in Warsaw.
5. "Everything Solid Melts into Air": Great World Exhibitions and Capitalism.
6. Paris of the 19th century: Why women Impressionists painters could not paint the same as the male Impressionist painters. Some remarks about flaneurism.
7. The Imptpressionist Suburban Eden: The Leisure of Parisian Bourgeoisie.
8. Japan as a European myth in the culture of 19th and 20 th centuries.
9. Coney Island: From a lunapark to Manhattan or How New York Was Born.
10. producing masculinity: physical culture and art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
11. A scandal in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
12. Museum and the cultural industry: the Bilbao effect
13. Anthropocene and after: contemporary artists and the planetary crisis.
14. Collage / kolaż: terms and themes of modern art.
15. The boundaries of the present day: study lecture at the National Museum.
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Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
Students after the end of the course:
K_W01 have a basic knowledge of art as a discipline in the system of humanities, its connections with other sciences and its specific and methodological specificity.
K_W02 know the basic terminology of the humanities with particular emphasis on the specific terminology of knowledge about art.
KW_16 can recognize outstanding works of art representing historical epochs and features distinctive for the culture of the historical period.
K_W04 have a basic knowledge of selected aspects of art history in Europe and in the world in the context of the history of theater.
K_W05 have a basic knowledge of contemporary art, the most important artists, phenomena and tendencies.
K_W09 know the most important museum collections in Poland and in the world.
K_W10 understand the relationship between the history of art of a specific time and the history of sub-disciplines such as costume design (history of clothing), set design or interior deisgn and has the basic, necessary knowledge about them
K_W11 understand the historical, aesthetic and socio-cultural determinants of the phenomenon of art from antiquity to today.
K_W08 have a basic knowledge of the history of artistic doctrines and their most outstanding representatives.
K_W12 knows modern art research methodologies (NAH / New Art History) and the latest research achievements in the field of art knowledge.
K_W17 knows the resources of the most important, mainly on-line, libraries, archives and museum collections (on-line museums), useful in this field;
K_W22 has knowledge of artistic life in Poland (exhibitions, art projects, programs of art institutions) and understands the need to participate in culture on an ongoing basis.
Skills
students after the end of the course:
K_U01 can independently deepen knowledge and develop competences in the field of art, using various sources, in Polish and in a foreign language.
K_U02 can search, collect and select information and source materials (in Polish and in a foreign language), useful for specific purposes; navigate online resources of knowledge about art and culture (museum websites, art galleries in Poland and in the world; on-line libraries, scientific platforms).
K_U04 are able to use the basic concepts, theories and methods in the field of art knowledge in practice.
K_U05 are able to carry out a formal analysis of a work of art and its interpretation using adequate terminology.
K_U09 can write critical texts on a given topic (exhibition review, abstract of an article / book) in accordance with the genre convention and label them with the required scientific apparatus (footnotes, bibliography, illustrations and substantive captions under them); be able to use sources in Polish and foreign languages efficiently.
Personal and social competences
the students after completing the course:
K_K01 are aware of the level of their own knowledge and skills, independently extends their own education in this field.
K_K04 are prepared to actively participate in groups and institutions implementing or organizing cultural projects.
K_K06 participate in the current artistic and cultural life (also online; takes part in discussions organized by important cultural institutions, such as museums and galleries of contemporary art in Poland and in the world).
Assessment criteria
Two unexcused absences from classes are allowed.
In stationary mode:
1. In the middle of the semester - a written summary of the literature on the subject (to be chosen from the list).
2. Passing the semester: essay on one of the three proposed topics (up to 9000 characters).
After two completed semesters - oral exam.
In the e-learning mode:
Summary of a selected item from the bibliography (up to 5400 characters) - after each month of classes.
Credit for the semester: essay on one of the three proposed topics (up to 9000 characters).
Bibliography
Literature:
Sztuka świata, Arkady, 12 tomów, Arkady, Warszawa 1990 – 1998 (wybrane rozdziały z poszczególnych tomów).
Hans Belting, Rzymski portret funeralny i portret świętego u chrześcijan, w: tegoż, Obraz i kult. Historia obrazu przed epoką sztuki, przeł. Tadeusz Zatorski, słowo/obraz/terytoria, Gdańsk 2010.
Otto von Simson, Katedra gotycka. Jej narodziny i znaczenie, przeł. Anna Palińska, PWN Warszawa 1989 (wybrane rozdziały).
Douglas Crimp, Koniec sztuki i narodziny muzeum, przeł. Maria Popczyk, w: Muzeum sztuki. Antologia, pod red. Marii Popczyk, Universitas, Kraków, 2005, s. 255-266.
Allan Sekula, Ciało i archiwum, w: tegoż, Społeczne użycie fotografii, przeł. Krzysztof Pijarski, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego-Zachęta, Warszawa 2010, s. 133-201. (fragment)
Linda Nochlin, Orient wyobrażony, przeł. Magda Szcześniak, w: Antropologia kultury wizualnej. Zagadnienia i wybór tekstów, Oprac. Iwona Kurz, Paulina Kwiatkowska, Łukasz Zaremba, wstęp, Iwona Kurza, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2012. s. 601-609.
Katarzyna Czeczot, Ofelizm. Romantyczne zawłaszczenia, feministyczne interwencje, Instytut Badań Literackich Wydawnictwo, Warszawa 2016. (wybrane rozdziały)
Jonathan Crary, Zawieszenia percepcji. Uwaga, spektakl i kultura nowoczesna, przeł. Łukasz Zaremba, Iwona Kurz, red. Nauk. I posłowie Iwona Kurz, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa2009. (wybrane rozdziały)
W. Benjamin, Twórca jako wytwórca, tłum. Robert Reszke, Wydawnictwo KRM, Warszawa 2011. (wybrane rozdziały).
John Berger, O patrzeniu, przeł. Sławomir Sikora, Wydawnictwo Fundacji Aletheia, Warszawa 1999 (wybrane rozdziały).
Le Corbusier, W stronę architektury, przeł. Tomasz Swoboda, Fundacja Centrum Architektury, Warszawa 2012 (wybrane rozdziały)
Rosalind E. Krauss, Oryginalność awangardy i inne mity modernistyczne, Przeł. Monika szuba, Słowo/obraz/terytoria, Gdansk 2011. ( wybrane rozdziały).
Guy Debord, Społeczeństwo spektaklu. Rozważania o społeczeństwie spektaklu, przeł. Mateusz Kwaterko, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warszawa 2006. (wybrane rozdziały)
Lynda Nead, Akt kobiecy. Sztuka, obscena i seksualność, przeł. Ewa Franus, Dom Wydawniczy REBIS, Poznań 1998.
Rem Koolhaas, Śmieciowa przestrzeń. Teksty w wyborze Andrzeja Leśniaka, pod red. Andrzeja Leśniaka i Grzegorza Piątka, przeł. Marcin Wawrzyńczak, CA Centrum Architektury, Warszawa. (wybrane rozdziały)
Hal Foster, Powrót realnego. Awangarda u schyłku XX wieku, przeł. Mateusz Borowski, Małgorzata Sugiera, Universitas, Kraków 2010. (wybrane rozdziały)
Izabela Kowalczyk, Ciało i władza. Polska sztuka krytyczna lat 90., Wydawnictwo Sic!, Warszawa 2002. (wybrane rozdziały).
Jacques Rancière, Estetyka jako polityka, przeł. Julian Kutyła, Paweł Mościcki, Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2007. (wybrane rozdziały)
Monika Bakke, Gdy stawka jest większa niż życie. Sztuka wobec mineralno-biologicznych wspólnot, „Teksty Drugie”, 1/2020.
Filmografia (w porządku chronologii zajęć):
Melancholia, Lars von Trier, 2011.
Kupiec Wenecki, reż. Michael; Redford, 2004.
Orlando, reż. Sally Potter, 1992.
Artemisia, reż Agnes Merlet, 1997.
Maria Antonina, reż. Sofia Coppola, 2006.
Nosferatu-Symfonia grozy, reż. F.W. Murnau, 1922.
Nosferatu Wampir, reż. Werner Herzog, 1979.
Camille Claudel, reż. Bruno Nuytten, 1988.
Metropolis, reż. Fritz Lang, 1927.
Pies andaluzyjski, reż. Luis Bunũel, 1929.
Blade Runner. Łowca androidów, rez. Ridley Scott, 1982.
Blade Runner 2049, reż Denis Villeneuve, 2017.
Konformista, reż. Bernadro Bertolucci, 1970.
Powiększenie, reż. MIchealngelo Antonioni, 1966.
Utracona cześć Katarzyny Blum, Volker Schlöndorff, 1975.
Marina Abramović: artystka obecna, reż. Matthew Akers, 2012.
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