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STUDY PLANS
2024/2025

Art History and Society

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Code Completion Credits Range Language
15W1DU KZ 4 8 Czech
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Department of Languages and Humanities
Synopsis:

Aesthetics and its basic concepts. Art history: definitions, terminology, division into periods. Architecture, fine arts, design in Europe and America in the course of centuries. Situation in Central Europe, Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic. Art Nouveau, Cubism, Postmodernism in industrial buildings and transportation facilities. Stations, bridges, embankments, sluices etc. Aesthetics and construction work today. Design of transport vehicles.

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not defined

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Study Objective:

Getting to know art history, focusing on technical aesthetics; improving orientation in painting and architecture.

Study materials:

J. Pijoan: Dějiny umění, díl 1 - 10, Odeon 1977 and later

Encyklopedie českého výtvarného umění, Academia, 1975 and later

Slovník světového malířství, Odeon - Artia, 1991 and later

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