Syllabus
Programm:
Programm:
Winter term (2018) 3.10. Opening session – introduction – Anežka Mikulcová, Marie Rakušanová 17.10. Prof. Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Birmingham 10.12. International symposium Cosmopolitan Kubišta: The Necessity of Art in the Modern Era: Petr Wittlich (Charles University, Prague), Marie Rakušanová, Françoise Lucbert (Université Laval, Québec), Mahulena Nešlehová (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), Eva Bendová (National Gallery in Prague), András Zwickl (National Gallery in Budapest), Lidia GƗuchowska (Universität Bamberg, Universytet Zielona Góra) 11.12. International symposium Cosmopolitan Kubišta: The Necessity of Art in the Modern Era: Steven Mansbach (University of Maryland), Eleanor Moseman (Colorado State University), Nicholas Sawicki (Lehigh University, Bethlehem), Markéta Theinhardt (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Isabel Wünsche (Jacobs University, Bremen), Richard Gregor (Trnavská univerzita)
Summer term (2019) 27. 2. Prof. Dr. Martin Schieder, Leipzig 3.4. Prof. Dr. Dr. Tanja Zimmermann, Leipzig 24. 4. Dr. Luiza Nader, Varšava 1.5. or 8.5. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, Düsseldorf 15. 5. Prof. Dr. Matthias Weiß, Berlin
Annotation
19th and 20th Century Art in Transnational Context
Marie Rakušanová, Anežka Mikulcová
Academic year: 2018-2019, winter term and summer term
Room: C 415 (Celetná 20, 4th floor)
Winter Term (2018): Wed. October 3th (10:50-11:50): opening session - introduction; Wed. October 17th (10:50-12:20); Mon. and Tue. December 10th to 11th (times will be specified)
Summer Term (2019): Wed. February 27th (10:50-12:20); Wed. April 3th (10:50-12:20); Wed. April 24th (10:50-12:20); Wed May 1st (or 8th –tbc.) (10:50-12:20); Wed. May 15th (10:50-12:20)
The course will take place four times in winter term and five times in summer term (it won’t be held regularly – see the given dates).
Requirements for passing the course: 100 % participation, paper submission (English, 15 standard pages, footnotes, bibliography)
Anežka Mikulcová and Marie Rakušanová invited visiting scholars from academic exchange partner universities who explore in their art historical research the topic of transnationality, internationalism and nationhood. They will be giving lectures during the academic year and students will choose at the end of the course one of the topics and will write a paper in English (15 standard pages, footnotes and bibliography).
Art history is as subject to the vagaries of fashion as any other sphere of human activity. Currently the trend is for global art history, and terms like “transnational”, “transcultural” and “worldwide” are bandied about freely. The locutions ‘global art history’ and ‘world art studies’ muscle their way into the names not only of research teams but even departments and institutions of Western universities. In fact, intercultural exchanges on an international level had already been a pressing theme of art history decades previously. Does the transnational approach offer new ways of interpreting art of the 19th and 20th centuries?
Reading: James Elkins (ed.), Is Art History Global?, New York – London 2006; H. van den Berg – L. Głuchowska (eds.), Transnationality, internationalism and nationhood. European Avant-Garde in the first half of the twentieth century, Leuven 2013; Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Les avant-gardes astistiques 1848-1918: une histoire transnationale, Paris 2015.