Selected topics in Modern and Contemporary Art in Slovenia I: Slovene Art from 1800 to the Present

The course may take place either in the classroom or at visits to galleries, studios and elsewhere where it is possible to study original artifacts. It involves treatment of specific chapters, for which students are encouraged to write papers or make some other kind of active contribution. The content changes each year and among others the course deals with: issues of Realism, Impressionism, Symbolism and Expressionism in Slovene arts; art avantguards; sources and forms of abstract art in Slovenia; the relationship between visual art and literature; the relationship between art and its patron or buyer; the relationship between art history and criticism; monographic presentations of central or overlooked artists; opportunities and ways of interpretation of the portrait and landscape painting in the 19th century; methodological approaches in the Slovenian art history, etc.

- Meščanska slika. Slikarstvo prve polovice 19. stoletja iz zbirk Narodne galerije, ur. Barbara Jaki, Ljubljana: Narodna galerija 2000. COBISS.SI-ID - 107299840
- Igor Sapač, Franci Lazarini, Arhitektura 19. stoletja na Slovenskem, Ljubljana: Muzej za arhitekturo 2015. COBISS.SI-ID - 276146688
- Anthony Alofsin, When Buildings Speak; Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867–1933, Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press 2006. COBISS.SI-ID - 11784506
- Tomaž Brejc, Realizem, impresionizem, postimpresionizem, Ljubljana: Narodna galerija 2006. COBISS.SI-ID - 230791168
- Oskar Bätschmann, Ausstelungskünstler. Kult und Karriere in modernen Kunstsystem, Köln: DuMont 1997. COBISS.SI-ID - 75224320
- Na robu = On the brink: Vizualna umetnost v Kraljevini Jugoslaviji (1929-1941) = the visual arts in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929-1941), ur. M. Jenko, B. Žerovc, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija 2019. COBISS.SI-ID - 299324928
- Jure Mikuž, Slovensko moderno slikarstvo in zahodna umetnost; Od preloma s socialističnim realizmom do konceptualizma, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija 1995. COBISS.SI-ID - 56745216
- Špelca Čopič, Javni spomeniki v slovenskem kiparstvu prve polovice 20. stoletja, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija 2000. COBISS.SI-ID - 106116352
- Do roba in naprej – slovenska umetnost 1975-1985, ur. Igor Španjol, Igor Zabel, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija 2003. COBISS.SI-ID - 122669312
- Razširjeni prostori umetnosti – slovenska umetnost 1985-1995, ur. Igor Španjol, Igor Zabel, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija 2004. COBISS.SI-ID - 214732544

In the addition to the above, the course uses various general art overviews in the form of books or articles (example: Umetnost na Slovenskem; Od prazgodovine do danes, ur. Irena Trenc-Frelih, Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga 1998). We also regularly use various monographic catalogues or articles on individual artists or topics.
The basic literature is adapted to the respective topic and communicated during lectures.