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Indian painting - a history of cultural dialogues
Vítů, Barbora ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Kostič, Svetislav (referee)
This bachelor thesis attempts to dissert about the symbolical (art) reflection of chosen socio-cultural changes indigenous to repetitional situations of acultural process in the historical context of the Indian subcontinent. The changes will be pursued within the temporal range of the Middle Ages, the Colonial Period, the Era of Modern India (since 1947), till the present. The key topics discussed in the thesis are also the postcolonial prospecting of an authentic cultural identity and the cultural challenge of globalization trespassing Indian culture - as well as its art. The thesis will provide the reflection of concrete problems relating religious heterogeneity, social life and social identity, gender and human sexuality, which have been mirroring in fine arts of the historically changing Indian context. The idiomatic dialogue in between single art traditions is also implied within the thesis as a crucial thematic component.
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Masks in contemporary art
Novotná, Barbora ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Rychlík, Martin (referee)
My bachelor thesis observes masks and it's representation in contemporary art in order to express identity. In the first part, the brief theory of mask is being presented. It concerns definitions, etymology of the word mask and theories in which mask is related to the identity. Considerable part of work studies mask in visual arts. Trough several art works from modern era, we can see the way mask entered into the tradition of modern and consequently contemporary art. Brief view is given on contemporary perception of identity. Important types and functions of mask are devided and the way how contemporary artists approach the topic of the mask and identity is descripted. Keywords Masks Face Art Identity Contemporary art
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The Town and Nature
Tupá, Jana ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Lapka, Miloslav (referee)
This bachelor thesis analyzes relationship between town and nature within the city, the inner nature, and its changes during the history of Western culture. This relationship is revealing through culturological point of view, thus interdisciplinary. This bachelor thesis goes from fields of historical anthropology, philosophy, philosophical anthropology and architecture. I perceive town as one of the most important features of human culture, that this artificial living space created, and it's further influenced. The relationship of city and nature is treated as expression of natural forces with which the man met during its existence, in the form of architecture, and the transfer of the nature into this artificial world in the form of gardens and parks, as an inner nature. KEY WORDS Town Nature Inner Nature Human Culture
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Sloth, idleness, laziness
Holubová, Kristýna ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Kollárová, Ľubica (referee)
The aim of this thesis si culturological synthesis of the role of the sloth, laziness and idleness in culture. There is a cultural and historical research in the first part of this thesis, where the evolution of the work and idleness is exposed within the european civilization. The problem of the role of sloth, laziness and idleness is grasped with a help of academic and fictional literature as well as fine art and popular culture. Conclusion contains synthesis of results and verification of hypothesis of idleness as initiatior of culture as well as idleness as a natural result of working process.
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The rural and the urban culture in the terms of suburbanisation and sustainable development
Vernerová, Zuzana ; Lapka, Miloslav (advisor) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (referee)
Zuzana Vernerová: The rural and urban culture in terms of suburbanisation and sustainable development Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Department of Cultural Studies, MA Thesis, 90 pages, 2012 This thesis deals with changes of rural and urban landscape. It examines a young generation attitude to the ideal habitation and its relation to the landscape through eponymous case study. It pursues the current young generation's ideal of housing and estimates possible development of future suburbanisation trends on the sample of 360 respondents from all regions of the Czech Republic. It is also mapping the relevance of suburbanization phenomena in respondents' opinions, their infrastructural and surrounding expectations in the view of their ideal housing. The thesis emphasizes the evolution of relation between man and the landscape and linked implications such as landscape liveability and permeability. The major theme is the suburbanisation phenomenon from its beginnings to actual trends. Key words: suburbanisation, landscape, ideal housing, landscape liveability, sustainable development
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Cereal in the medieval culture of the Czech lands
Freiová, Kristýna ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Hubáček, Ondřej (referee)
Agriculture makes its first appearance in human history about 12 000 - 5 000 years ago. Around that time, people took to a sedentary way of life so they could primarily till the land and grow the grains which they had come to know in their wild varieties. This new way of life gradually changed the social and cultural order. A return to primeval living was not impossible, though. Before the Slavs arrived on the territory of what is today Moravia and Bohemia, various Indo-European tribes had already pursued agriculture in our part of the world, chief among them the Celts and the Germans. The Slavs, which came from the eastern part of Europe, probably in the second half of the 6th century, built upon the farming of these erstwhile peoples. After the rise and fall of proto-states, for which evidence has survived only in the case of Great Moravia, an early Bohemian state took hold. In the local culture, grain played an indispensable role. Farming was the main livelihood of the entire populace. Crops of choice at the time were millet, einkorn, and emmer wheat, which gradually gave way to common wheat and barley. The land was tilled with wooden hoes which merely cut furrows in the soil. The grain, which was harvested using sickles, was stored in pits in the ground. To improve digestibility of the grain...
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Music and culture: chapters about music of Western culture
Weinerová, Jana ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Matějů, Martin (referee)
The subject of my work is the music of Western culture from the culturological point of view. I attempted to give an account of music in the context of some social sciences such as aesthetics, anthropology, psychology and sociology. Through these social sciences it was possible, for example, to differentiate between innate and culturally conditioned aspects of a person's reception of music. In the second part I focused on the music of Western culture from the point of view of three important cultural processes - the process of acculturation, diffusion and enculturation - and three parts of culture: artefacts, socio-cultural regulators and ideas. The aim of this work is to focus on music as an inseparable part of culture as well as important acoustic information and experience. I also attempted to describe some of the ways music has changed in the contemporary world of mass media.
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About history and present of cultural events management. Cultural events managers and organizers
Horáčková, Aneta ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Žák, Josef (referee)
The MA thesis deals with management of cultural events with detailed focus on managers and people organising these events offering contemporary and historical perspectives. The subject of this work has been raised as cultural phenomenon whose capacity as well as the number of organisers realising these cultural projects increases constantly. The theoretical part is divided into eleven chapters that deal firstly with introductory discourse about management of cultural events, introduction of the classification of organisers of cultural events, and the typology of cultural events. The second chapter concentrates on historical outline of managing cultural projects from ancient and medieval to modern times including historical specifics of the Czech environment. Contemporary cultural events management as the focus of the fourth chapter contains discourse on six significant activities of organisers, their appropriate features as well as types of possible failures in this area. Further chapters aim at five defined organisational subjects focusing on their ideological, creative, organisational and economic participation in realisation of cultural projects. The chapters also include particular cases of these subjects. Towards the end of the theoretical part there area also specifics of females discussed - female...
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Activism as a reply to crisis of public
Knapp, Dalibor ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Lapka, Miloslav (referee)
This thesis is a study on crisis of public space. Furthermore, it brings some strategies how to deal with it. In the first part the author introduces the public space evolution and analyses the main causes of its crisis. Parallelly, he follows the second line of his study where he illustrates the crisis of public space as the crisis of civil society. The same attention he pays to media space. The crux of his work is in presenting three main types of activist groups (social movements, non-profit organizations and artivist groups) and analysing chosen strategies focused on how to recapture public and media space. Physical public space - direct action, reclaim the street, critical mass, happening and performance, guerilla gardening, flash mob, street art, culture jamming, etc. Media public space- alternative media, cyberactivism, hactivism, mass virtual active action, culture jamming, etc.
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