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Connoisseurship and Art Market - KDKU347
Title: Connoisseurship and Art Market
Guaranteed by: Institute of Christian Art History (26-UDKU)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, MC [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Martin Zlatohlávek, Ph.D.
Is interchangeable with: KDKU311
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Annotation -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Martin Zlatohlávek, Ph.D. (23.09.2022)
The lectures will discuss the basic principles and history of art connoisseurship and the
principles of art trade. It will focus on explaining the basic procedures for determining the
authorship of a work of art and its function. It will introduce the most prominent experts and
their personal methods, including the most important attributions of determination and the
mistakes they made. Listeners will be able to experience for themselves the methods of
connoisseurship in practice when working with selected works of art. The lectures will also
cover the topic of the art market – the principles of acquiring works of art in the past and the
workings of the art market today.
Literature -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Martin Zlatohlávek, Ph.D. (23.09.2022)

Odborná literatura znalectví:
Max Friedländer, On Art and Connoisseurship,
Bernard Berenson, Rudiments of Connoisseurship, New York 1962
S. J. Fleming, Authenticity in Art, London 1975
George Savage, Forgeries, Fakes and Reproductions, London 1976
Charles Hamilton, Great forgers and famous fakes, New York 1980
Carol Gibson-Wood, Studies in the Theory of Connoisseurship: from Vasari to Morelli, New
York, London 1988
Wilhem von Bode, Mein Leben, Berlin 1997
Dorothea Peters, Fotografie als Instrument und Medium der Kunstgeschichte, Berlin 2009
Mary Acton, Learning to look at Sculpture, London 2014
Mary Acton, Learning to look at Painting, London 2014
Mary Acton, Learning to look at Modern Art, London 2014
Noah Farney, The Art of Forgery, London 2015
Daniel Becker, Annalisa Fischer, Yola Schmitz, Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting: Discredited
Practices at the Margins of Mimesis, Bielefeld 2018 (online kubikat.org)
Falza? Falza, kat. výst.,
 
Odborná literatura obchod s uměním:
série Studies in the History of Collecting and Art Markets
Journal for art market studies (online)
Georgina Adam, Dark side of the boom: the excesses of the art market in the twenty-first
century, London 2017
Titia Hulst, A history of the western art market: a sourcebook of writings on artists, dealers
and artmarkets, Oakland 2017 (online)
Bénédicte Savoy, Theories of Art Market: data – value – history, Berlin 2017 (online)
Bénédicte Savoy, The Pricing of Art: maker – markets – museums, Berlin 2017 (online)

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Martin Zlatohlávek, Ph.D. (23.09.2022)

The structure of the lectures: chapters from the history of connoisseurship from Renaissance
until today (the role of an expert in culture history: Michelangelo, Vasari, Baldinucci, Crowe,
Cavalcasele, Morelli, Berenson, Bode, Frienländer, Tietze, Kramář, Neumann, Šafařík,
specific schools of connoiseurship in present days), elementary terms of connoisseurship:
techinique, function, style, authorship, datation, the role of an art expert in state or private
collections, the role of an art expert in the art market, issues of cultural monuments and
national cultural monuments and their sale; provenance of artworks, the creation of art market

Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Martin Zlatohlávek, Ph.D. (23.09.2022)

The condition for obtaining credit at the end of the winter semester is active participation in
lectures and an oral examination to test the knowledge acquired.

 
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