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Lecturer(s)
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Bubíková Šárka, doc. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The turn of the century. 1910s: Modernism finally arrives to US: Armory Show, Ash Can School, the Precisionists, other modernists. American architecture.. 1920: "The Roaring Twenties", Jazz. Cinema and the emergence of film industry - cultural implications. 1930s - the "Red Decade": American Scene Painting; Photography. 1940s: film noir 1950s: post-war social changes. Abstract Expressionism. 1960s: Pop Art, Hollywood Renaissance. Post-modernism in American culture 1970s, 1980s: Op-Art, Minimalism, Neo-abstraction; Graffiti; Earth-works; Hyper-Realism.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Learning outcomes
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The course will reflect on the question of why the 20th century is sometimes labeled as "the American century". It will provide students with a good overall knowledge of the development in the arts of the era and enable them to see it in connection with changes of social and cultural paradigm. The course maps the cultural development in the US during the 20th century, focusing mainly on important authors, movements and events in visual arts, architecture, and music. These will be studied as cultural phenomena in a broader socio -cultural context mostly from the point of view of cultural studies, but also of art history.
Students will develop their intercultural competence and improve their ability to analyze cultural phenomena.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written examination
Seminar attendance. Final written test.
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Recommended literature
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ARNASON, H.H. History of Modern Art. Prentice - Hall, New Jersey/Abrams, New York. 3rd edition, 1986.
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GABLIK, S. Has Modernism Failed?. Thames and Hudson, 1985.
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GOETZMANN, W. H. The West of the Imagination. W.W. Norton &Co., New York, London, 1986.
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GRUNZWEIG, W.; MAIERHOFER, R.; WIMMER, A. Constructing the Eighties. Gunter Narr Verlag Tubingen, 1992. ISBN ISBN 3-8233-5.
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CHAFE, W. H. The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York., 1995.
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JANSON, H.W. History of Art. 3rd edition (for students desiring more art history contextual knowledge). Prentice - Hall, New Jersey/Abrams, New York., 1986.
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LANE, J.; O'SULLIVAN, M. A Twentieth-Century American Reader. Vol.1 1900-1945. USIA, Washington, 1999.
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TALLACK, D. Twentieth-Century America. Longman Literature in English Series. Longman, 1991.
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