Objectives and competences
Student visualizes the relations and reciprocal influence between society, culture and art in the period of older European history, he also gains the capability of making a distinction between fundamental and nonfundamental cultural and art and historical processes.
He is able to recognize cultural and artistic characteristics of individual periods.
Content (Syllabus outline)
The role and the meaning of artistic expression in prehistorical periods.
Models of antique culture and art.
Early Christianity and Byzantium.
Medieval cultural and artistic diversity of forms of expression.
The breach of the Renaissances.
Early Modern cultural and artistic forms, new forms of expression.
Culture and art in the slovene territory until the late 18th century.
The overview of the Slovene cultural activity (art, science, educational system, mass culture) from Protestantism onward with the emphasis on the second part of the 19th and 20th centuries, when the activity gets institucional forms. Cultural relation towards broader social reality will be looked at through the development of literature, school and scientific institutions, theatres, publishing… One of the characteristics of the time from the second part of the 19th century onward is the increasing interest of the state in cultural creativity, which was until that time mainly in connection with catholic church. The main emphasis, concerning this time, will be on the development of Slovene cultural institutions and on the cultural politics, that is, the relation of state and political parties (catholicity, liberalism) towards school, artistic and scientific activities and towards institutions. Concerning the 20th century a lot of attention will be given to the significance of politically important turning points in 1918, 1945 and 1991 for Slovene culture and to the increase of Slovene national cultural institutions.
Learning and teaching methods
Lectures, independent study, discussion. The information and communications technology is used for educational purposes in the teaching and learning process.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and Understanding:
Student deepens knowledge about developmental phases and important occurences in the history of culture and art in the european territory and about artisitc achievemnents, which enriched and changed this space form century to century.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Student acquires the capabilities of comparative treatment of individual cultural or art and historical processes at all.
Readings
1. G. Pischel, Zgodovina umetnosti. Slikarstvo, kiparstvo, arhitektura, uporabna umetnost, 1-3, Ljubljana 1970.
2. L. Menaše, Evropski umetnostnozgodovinski leksikon, Ljubljana 1971.
3. L. Menaše, Umetnostni zakladi Slovenije, Beograd 1982.
4. Svetovna zgodovina, Ljubljana, 1976.
5. Maurice Keen, Srednjeveška zgodovina.
Dodatna literatura:
6. Zgodovina v slikah.
