BIV COURSE JOURNAL REQUIREMENT

The main requirement for the BIV course is a personal journal. This can take the form of an 81/2 x 11" black bound sketchbook or loose leaf book of a size convenient for travel.

Entries should be made daily. They should include:

•A daily verbal record of encounters, observations, conversations, insights, and activities
•A visual record that should include sketches, drawings, collages, photos, found materials, etc. which document experiences of the trip.
•Though some of these images can be presented as straight documentary inclusions, the visual aesthetic character will be an important criteria for evaluating the work. Material should be presented in a conceptually and formally coherent manner.


POSSIBLE RESEARCH TOPICS FOR ADDITIONAL CREDIT
The following topics will give you some ideas on which to focus your research. Some are specific, some general, in which you can find subtopics.

•The effects of the Velvet Revolution on the Czech/Slovak art establishment

•Glass behind the Iron Curtain

•Images of Lenin/Stalin or other revolutionary heroes in the Eastern Bloc

•State sponsored art- Czech/Slovak/Hungary

•Art trends since the fall of communism

•Artists and art students in the Velvet Revolution and the fall of communism

•Subjects concerning individual artists, architects, designers eg.
Alphonse Mucha
Frantisck Kupka
Egon Schiele
Chaim Gross
Hunterwasser
Arnuif Raines
Gustav Kiimt

•Art, censorship and totalitarianism

•Artistic suppression by the Nazi's in Austria

•Bismark, Nieztche, Romanticism, and the concept of the Master Race