This is the third part of the survey course in Art History, focussing on Modern art, i.e. the art of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The lecture starts around 1800 and finishes with a first glance at the international avantgardes of the 1940s and 1950s.

The lecture focuses on European art history in the global context in the sense of an "entangled history", in light of the deep interrelation of Modernism and Colonialism, which was geographically expanded and intensified. The visual arts have reacted with the appropriation of non-Western, making orientalism, exoticism and primitivism important topics.

We will also focus on transmedial approaches, as in the conception of the "Gesamtkunstwerk" in late 19th century art, and on the importance of design for Modern art. Additionally, we will look at the impact of the development of photography and film on traditional art practices (painting, sculpture and graphic arts).

There will be a written exam at the end of the term, which can be taken in German or English.

There will be two more exam dates. After that no later exam dates will be held, as the lecture focusses on different questions each year.

INFORMATION FOR ONLINE EXAM ON APRIL, 27th, 2020 (THIRD EXAM DATE):

To take the exam, a few steps differently from the usual procedure are necessary:
1. Please register at kunstgeschichte@uni-ak.ac.at until Wednesday, April 22nd, with your name and study programme.
2. Please create a user account at www.exammi.at (https://exammi.at/users/start) until Wednesday, April 22nd as well. I regret that the platform is only managed in German, but the exam will be held in German AND English, optionally, as usual!
3. You will receive instructions via email and an invitation to join the test until Thursday, April 23.
4. You can access the exam online on Monday, April 27th between 10:30 and 10:55. Take care to start on time, as there is a time limit of 25 minutes. The exam period closes at 10:55!
5. You will receive your grades as usual and do not need to access exammi.at after the exam. As soon as you have received your grade, feel free to delete your account. The platform www.exammi.at is a free, non-commercial website developed by PH Vorarlberg for schools. You will be able to delete your account in a one-step-process .

The lecture will be held in German. It is taught alternately in German and English, with the English lecture "Modern Art / Zyklus III" following in Fall/Winter 2020/21 (fully explained on https://www.angewandtekunstgeschichte.net/news/2019/umstellung-der-zyklus-vorlesungen).

Regular attendance is advised.

The lecture will be accompanied by a tutorial course led by Lucie Pia (lucie.pia@gmail.com).
Dates of the tutorial course:
Wednesday, 13. November 2019, 17:15 -18:45, image analysis, VZA7, Seminarraum 25
Thursday, 12. Dezember 2019, 17:15 – 18:45, exhibition visit mumok (the number of participants is limited, please register for participation in the lecture on Dec. 9, 2019)
Wednesday, 15. Januar 2020: 15:30 – 17:00, Surrealist collection, VZA7,Library, Sonderleseraum, (the number of participants is limited, please register for participation in the lecture on Jan. 13, 2020)
Wednesday, 15. Januar 2020: 17:15 – 18:45, exam preperation , VZA7, Seminarraum 22

A handout with detailed information on the lecture programme, the tutorial programme, recommended literature, and so forth is published on www.angewandtekunstgeschichte.net. All important literature is collected for your free perusal in the library in a special "Handapparat".

The image presentations shown in the lecture, as well as helpful texts on each session's topics, are all collected, week for week, in a special OwnCloud-folder. As soon as you are registered for the lecture ("Anmeldung" within Base Angewandte), access to this folder will automatically be provided.

All images can be viewed with additional information and downloaded on the image database IMAGE (access within Base Angewandte)