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Visual Perception in the Work of René Magritte
VANDERKOVÁ, Andrea
This work provides a detailed analysis of three works by René Magritte based on the theoretical background of Visual Culture Studies and Semiotics. Since these disciplines still need to be better established in Czech research, the first part of the thesis is devoted to creating of theoretical background relevant to the interpretation of Magritte's works. In addition to this part aiming at the issue of human perception of images in general, the thesis also deals with the interpretation of selected works and the dynamics of the relation between word and image that had influenced Magritte's work. Based on the interpretation of Magritte's work, I try to illuminate the ways in which we perceive images and evaluate the world through them.
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Optimism at the time of fear and lack of freedom
Madlová, Ivana ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Březinová, Monika (referee)
The student attempts in her thesis to reveal the essential problem of the formation of public opinion, based on the example of the oppositional satirical magazine Der Simpl, that was published in Prague in the time of the expansion of nacism in Germany in the years 1934- 1935. The title of the thesis characterizes the effort the oppositional journalists in some kind of "emotional relief" in the time of intensified censorship and repression on one sinde, on the other side it is headed for the problem of creating media constucts with emotional aspect, on the side both system and opposition. The author tries to summarize the instruments of creation of the so called "optimistical illusion" in the society and the methods of their influencing the formation of public opinion. Based on the theoretical framework and the analysis of some caricatures, the student tries to demonstrate, in which way the oppositional journalist in Nazi era tried to balance the current issues. As the student summarizes in the final part of the thesis, satire and oppositional journalistics does not change very much in the human life. We are pleased to laugh about them, but we do not change our lives because of them. In spite of her own conviction about the fundamental importance of politics in the everyday life of democratic...
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Gombrich theory of reception of representational works of art
Fejfarová, Tereza ; Ševčík, Miloš (advisor) ; Kubalík, Štěpán (referee)
The aim of my thesis is to introduce E. H. Gombrich's views on the nature of the reception of representational works of art. Firstly I describe the moments in Gombrich's life that contributed to the formation of his views on this topic. Subsequently, I focus on Gombrich's very concept of the reception of representational works of art. My thesis is divided into three parts, in which Gombrich's reflections on reception are thematized. The first part introduces reflections on the participation of the viewer in the process of the reception of works of art. This part demonstrates that the core of Gombrich's views create a distinction between two spheres: "vision" and "knowledge". The second part, in which I tematize Gombrich's concept of reception, introduces his views on the artist's role and discusses the manner and limits of artistic creation. The third part describes Gombrich's reflections on the development of reception, in relation to historical changes on artistic functions. My thesis analyzes Gombrich's reflection, which is that knowledge, experience and memory have a dicisive influence on the perception, interpretation and the creation itself of the work of art. In another part of my thesis, I paraphrase Gombrich's reflections of the perspective representation and I pay attention to the...
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The Architecture of the Virtual
Halinár, Matej ; ArtD, Vít Halada, (referee) ; Kristek,, Jan (advisor)
Architecture Jail Escape It is a specific device for futuroptimist people based on the philosophy of posthumanism and transhumanism, a version of their own faith in endless life on the net. It is a belief in the possibility of technological transformation of humanity that will allow us to overcome our physical and biological limits. Clause 2.0 is architecture for pioneers - the protagonist of this transformation - enabling the longest and most complete stay in virtual reality. This avant-garde is anxious 2.0. Escapist personalities of digital age soldiers are looking for a haven and their own version of the world in the cyberspace. They create a vision of paradise and colonize (cyber) space without the political consequences of the finiteness of the physical world and the exhaustion of natural resources. They live on the frontier of the being, and they want to unburden themselves and merge with the world they understand more. They fight with their own brain and body that cannot break away from the world. The endlessness of the virtual space has the limits of body and senses. Long-term stay in a cyberspace is a loss of sense of time and space. This monastic life in clause 2.0 is able to keep them in shape, by observing the ritual, the physical performance of walking that they must undergo so that they can exist every day in their version of the digital monastery. These versions are infinite, and they can be ritually traced among them. Clause geometry isolates them from one another. The clause is a monastic concept that allows the people to live hermetically, as well as the physical world. The gateway to the virtual space is a "zero architecture" - a room, a cell, a cube on a 4x4 meter plan, rid of any visual architectural site. It provides only a flat floor as the reflection point for an endless virtual world and four walls and a ceiling with a corresponding thickness for a sufficient separation from the outside world. The world of infinite freedom opens behind this "zero architecture". It seems that not through "architectural innovation and political subversion" a modern architect's dream of architecture will be realized as machines for the liberation of man but through the abandonment of physical architecture as such. The prospect of "zero architecture" opens up a space where the new architecture will no longer be "luxuries and good homes, not the architecture of separation and imprisonment, but it will ultimately be the architecture of freedom.
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The novels of disillusion and maturing
Kotšmídová, Alena ; Mravcová, Marie (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
This bachelor degree thesis deals with various forms of disillusion and maturing in novels "Santa Lucia", "Ivův román" and "Stříbrný vítr". All three books are considered to be novels of disillusion and maturation. On example of main characters, the thesis shows the impulses leading to constitution of illusion, the reason for disillusion formation, the course of disillusion formation and the results of disillusion itself. Although all three novels could be classified as novels of disillusion and maturation, they differ from traditional form of storyline. There is also a dissimilarity among their main characters and composition. Apart from interpretations of disillusion of the characters, the thesis also contains comparative chapters, in which the parallels and differences between characters are drawn. At the same time, comparation enables us to point out the change in thinking, which has taken place between the end of nineteenth and the beginning of twentieth century. This change is noticeable in different way of solving similar problems and it determines the difference between two generations of the Czech moderna. key words: the novel of disillusion, illusion, disillusion, emotions, imagination
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MAP
Merta, Johana ; Sterec, Pavel (referee) ; Mikyta, Svätopluk (advisor)
I present complex of artistic works, which I created durring my Masters studies and its interruption, so since 2012 till 2017. My topic which I worked with was cartography transfer of space to flat with manipulations of sizes and visual shortcuts and visualisations of outvisible spaces. Together with my activity I will introduce also work of another 5 artists, which I ofered them the topic of map of parallel Universe to their focus and visions.
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The role of places of indeterminacy in the proces of reading the work of art
Kadlčíková, Radka ; Kubalík, Štěpán (advisor) ; Ševčík, Miloš (referee)
The work is focussing on two aesthetic theories, which primarily deal with the reception of literary work of art. Thesis discusses about the phenomenological aesthetics of Roman Ingarden and reception aesthetics of Wolfgang Iser. Research is conducted to clarify the notion of indeterminacy places in a literary text and its function in it. Both authors explain this concept by their own approach to the reception of literary work of art. The method of work is defined by the description of these two presented theories, and by the end of the thesis, both approaches are compared. The aim of the thesis is to characterize both theories and define the concept of indeterminacy places within them. The aim is also to describe the moments in which Wolfgang Iser theories are inspired by Roman Ingarden and also the place where their theories do not agree and Iser revises it.
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Philosophy of extreme voluntarism (Schopenhauer) and its influence on later authors (Friedrich Nietzche and Ladislav Klima)
LASTOMIRSKÁ, Jana
The work deals with the extreme voluntarism and his influence on later authors. First, is the work of Schopenhauer explained the concept of the metaphysical will. Here is insights will primarily as a form of objectification and the closest is served objectification of the body, understood as object.In next section, this will monitored in philosophy of Ladislav Klíma and his idea of egodeism. For Klíma however, metaphysical will lose its transcendent ability and insight from a purely subjective point of view. The last part is mentioned Friedrich Nietzsche, whose theory of the will to power and the death of God, could be an inspiration for the Klíma's idea of egodeism.
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