Modern Trends in Central European Art

Lecture (Postgraduate Study Course)
Teaching language: English

The lecture aims to point out:

• innovations and movements of the early twentieth century (especially “Dada” and Surrealism) as important sources of contemporary art in Europe
• art movements in Europe and their sociological, political and cultural contexts after the Second World War
• aesthetic ideas and paradigms in selected phenomena of contemporay art (settings, determinants, elements and materials, forms and structures; compositional techniques and practices; communicative components) selected works and concepts of artists (musicians, dancers, painters etc.)
• Relations between the arts; between art and science; between art, science and culture; between art and art education

Required reading

HUXLEY, Michael and WITTS, Noel (ed.): The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader
Routledge, 1996