Objectives and competences
knowledge and comprehension of selected 20th and 21st century architectures, sculptures and paintings
· knowledge and comprehension of literature and written sources for studying of the art of the 20th and 21st century
· description, definition, classification, interpretation of selected 20th and 21st century architectures, sculptures and paintings
· comprehension, classification, interpretation of selected 20th and 21st century artworks in a broader cultural and historical context
- comprehension and explanation of facts and basic ideas and concepts of 20th and 21st century artworks
Content (Syllabus outline)
Chapters will be selected from the beginnings and peaks of modernism and post-modernism. There, by methodology of historic anthropology of image, the key problems of beginnings and development of both directions marking art of these times in which we still live, will be presented. Total analyses will first deal with "modernism before modernism", elements of arts as reductionism and minimalisation, stressing of the clean idea on the account of manual work, abstraction of forms and colours, non-mimetic piling up of colours, denial of classic rennaissance of perspective and flating the picture field etc. announcing development of modernism. Especially, late Cezanne, Kandinski and expressionism, Picasso and cubism are handled. Each phenomenon and creator will be interpreted as beginning of certain approaches and then development of these elements till their peak will be followed. In the same way, we will deal with post-modernism. Its sources will be shown in phenomena as there is dadaism, arte povera and conceptualism and creation by Duchamp, Beuys and Warhole as starters of the movement and Lyotard and Jameson as its theoretical companions will be stressed. Attention will be paid also to the question of avantgarde and its versions. Especially, also names and phenomena in Slovenian arts as Jakopič, Pregelj, Stupica, OHO, etc. Will be mentioned.
Learning and teaching methods
- lectures with AV-presentations;
- tutorial;
- visiting exhibitions and other events connected with themes and discussions;
- excursions with visits to most important exhibitions and collections of arts of the period;
- writing seminar works;
- joint case studies;
- analyses of theoretical and hermeneutic discourses.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
• student will list, classify, define, explain, interpret selected 20th and 21st century artworks
• student will list, collect, define, classify, interpret
• literature and written sources for studying the art of the 20th and 21st century
• student will describe, define, classify, interpret 20th and 21st century artworks
• student will explain, classify, interpret selected artworks in a broader cultural and historical context
• student will recognize, define, explain facts and basic ideas and concepts of selected artworks.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
- By knowledge of arts of this era they will be enabled to understand today's time and all its fields.
- By knowledge of key chapters in arts of 20th and 21st century they will develop capability for later work in institutions for studying and presentation of contemporary art production.
- By an overview over accessible literature and other sources they will be enabled for research and qualitative production of seminar works on the problem of the mentioned era.
Readings
G. C. Argan, L'arte moderna 1770 – 1970, Rim 1977
F. Jameson, Postmodernism, London 1984, tudi slov. prev.
N. Lynton, The Story of Modern Art, London 1989, tudi slov. prevod
Ch. Harrison – P. Wood, Art in Theory 1900 – 1990: an Anthology of Changing Ideas, London 1992
Groupes, mouvements, tendances de l'art contemporain depuis 1945, Pariz 2001, tudi slov. prev.
Marvin Trachtenberg, Isabelle Hyman, Architecture. From Prehistory to Postmodernism, New York 2002.
Stane Bernik, Slovenska arhitektura dvajsetega stoletja / Slovenian Architecture of the Twentieth Century, Ljubljana 2004.
Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture. A Critical History, London 1980 (in več ponatisov).
Udo Kultermann, Die Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert, Köln 1977 (in dopolnjeni ponatisi).
Prerequisits
No special prerequisites.
Additional information on implementation and assessment - seminar work and its presentation
- oral exam
(Positive grade of seminar work is obligatory for access to oral exam.)
