In the winter semester, the student chooses the topic of the written work in agreement with the teacher and prepares its project, incl. bibliography.

Suggested topics to be discussed:

Dead body, dead face in art

Death masks or skulls?

Strategies for Displacing Death in Contemporary Advertising

The Sociology of Death - Contemporary Burial Culture

"Memento mori" paintings of popular music and new media

Tombstones, grave sculpture

Noble Empire, Classicist, Neo-Gothic tombs

Tombstone architecture (tombs of Jan Kotěra etc.)

Architecture of crematoria (Turnov, Pardubice, Nymburk etc.)

Cemetery and contemporary architecture (Carlo Scarpa, Aldo Rossi etc.)

Contemporary cemeteries as urban units

A cemetery as a park or a zone of desolation

Sepulchral monuments in the current practice of monument care

Death in the Art of Symbolism (Arnold Böcklin, Gabriel Max, Munch etc.)

Death in contemporary art

Exposure to "death"

The seminar will include excursions - Olšanské hřbitovy, Vyšehradský Slavín, Prague crematoria, etc.