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The cult of The Great Goddess from culturological view
Titěrová, Kristýna ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Opletalová, Lenka (referee)
The cult of Goddess is known from the beginning of human race and it continues in nowadays. It involves the Paleolithic Venuses, goddesses from ancient pantheons, who were transformed in a cult of Mary in Hellenistic syncretism. This cult is connected with a deep symbolism of a birth giving, life, death and rebirth. It contains psychological aspect, where the goddesses are thought as projections of archetypes of mother and Anima and also the sociological aspects of women status in these cultures and societies.
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Socio-cultural meaning of non-professional activities in consideration of theatre
Bezoušková, Simona ; Matějů, Martin (advisor) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (referee)
The purpose of this degree work is the description, characterizion and analysis of non-profesional art activities in consideration of the theatre. The central theme is the socio-cultural meaning of these activities. In first part of the text, the author defines art as the socio-cultural phenomenon. Because, on one hand, society and culture influence art and on the other hand, art influences society and culture. This degree work also deals with the applied research on infant aesthetic activities, which proves that the non-professional art activities has positive influence to a life style, process of socialization, creativity and relation to art and culture. ln second part of the text, the author defines professional and non-professional theatre, describes contemporary situation and conditions of non-professional theatre and statistical data. In connection to this description, the author deduces the socio-cultural meaning of non-professional theatre. The ma in puprose of this work is the rationale why it is neccesery to support, cultivate, reflect, structurally deal with and study non-professional art activities.
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The origin and the present state of Czech Christmas celebrations. Development of habits and traditions of today's Christmas celebrations with thorough description of the present state, its reasons and its future prospects
Budinská, Jana ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Matějů, Martin (referee)
This work is trying to resume principles and origins of European winter solstice celebrations, with focus on today's celebrations and psychological/cultural aspects of its éxperience. As its background, it mentions today's Christmas traditions, their development and changes through the time, and their origins in the ancient Rome, tribes living on Czech territory (Celtic, Germanic and Slavonic), and Christian values and habits.
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The Art Nouveau Ecclesiastical Architecture in Czech Republic (Bohemia)
Pešlová, Jana ; Pech, Milan (advisor) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (referee)
The Art Nouveau ecclesiastical architecture in Czech Republic (Bohemia) The diploma thesis focusses on Art Nouveau religious architecture in Bohemia. It deals with the cultural and art movements between 1890-1920 which íncludes the late Historicism, Art Nouveau, and Modernism. The first part of the diploma thesis presents the influences which affected the development of Art Nouveau religious architecture in Bohemia and its architects. It also introduces architectural elements that are typical for Art Nouveau religious architecture. The second part of the diploma thesis presents religious buildings in the particular regions of Bohemia and describes them subsequently in the catalogue that is arranged chronologically. Keywords Art Nouveau, religious architecture, the Catholic Church, the Evangelical Church, Bohemia, 19th and 20th century, 1890-1920
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Street art - subculture of post-graffiti
Kern, David ; Matějů, Martin (advisor) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (referee)
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a contemporary art movement often referred to as street art, post-graffiti or urban art. One of the components of this thesis, besides differentiation from the graffiti movement and an introduction of the most important artists and techniques, is an attempt to relate subcultural theories and Pierre Bourdieu's theory of social field to the movement. The primary sources used in this paper are Tristan Manco's Street Logos and Stencil Graffiti, Julia Reinecke's Street-Art, Christian Hundertmark's The Art of the Rebellion, The Subcultures Reader edited by Sarah Thornton and Ken Gelder, articles published in various magazines and newspapers and also interviews with the artists and their discussions, which have been published on the internet. The author of this paper was also successful in contacting two of the artists via email. Because of the nature of the subject, the methods applied in this paper are mostly a description and understanding of the source materials, profiles of the main artists and their techniques. In the theoretical part, the paper attempts to apply relevant sociological theories to describe the dynamics of the processes in the given subculture. First, the paper defines the term street art followed by a brief introduction of the graffiti movement to...
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Kuks and baroque culture in Czech lands
Novobílský, Marek ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Matějů, Martin (referee)
The aim of this study is to outline and illustrate the link between the Kuksian manor and its founder, the great Czech baroque figure count Sporck and his Kuks, as a synthesis of events after the Thirty Year's War. I am convinced that this theme can be considered culturally-historical, as in the introductory chapter we are primarily going to cover the region's formation during the times of baroque Bohemia, the causes and mechanisms of its formation, subsequently we will describe the region's relationship to architecture, and finally we are going approach the spectacular grounds of Kuks itself. In the second part we will turn to count Sporck himself, particularly his background all the way towards his final establishment in Bohemia, where we are going to mention his notable credit to architecture and art, and eventually we will proceed to the issues of Bohemian settings of that time. Another big chapter will cover count Sporck's editorial activities, which were very ostentatious and presumptuous considering the fact that they took place during the difficult era full of censorships and prohibition. It can rightfully so be regarded as outstanding and, with only a few exceptions, unique in its own way. Towards the conclusion we will also outline the development of Sporck's theatrical society, the cooperation...
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Architecture and Urbanism in Litomyšl during 20th century
Kastnerová, Zuzana ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Pech, Milan (referee)
Architectonic and city planning development of Litomyšl town in 20. century Abstract The topic of master thesis is architectural development in Litomyšl town during 20th century. The development of the city will be set to the context of historical background and social-political and economic situation. Thesis will introduce architects and their work especially from 1990's including comprehensive changes in urban environment of the city, including the revitalization program of the city, which continues till now. The aim of master thesis is to evaluate architectural development of Litomyšl city during the last century and define the influences and the qualities of modernization of such historical town. Key terms: Litomyšl, architecture, city planning, revitalisation
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The modern art in India - the outline of development
Vítů, Barbora ; Kostič, Svetislav (advisor) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (referee)
This bachelor thesis attempts to provide a chronological outline of the development of Indian modern visual arts - from its beginnings to the present. A key determinant for the attribute "modern" used in this thesis, is related to the Indian cultural and historical context in its specifics. The key topics of this thesis are especially various forms of modern Indian art and cultural tradition, eclecticism and universal visual language, as well as the question of effects of cultural globalization. The thesis has been structured in a manner, that each chapter provides in its beginning a general idea and description of the context to which a concrete style of artistic approach responses. There are also key references to the emergence of some major institutions included (such as certain art schools and academies, the National Gallery, Expo, Triennale etc.). The individual chapters deal with representative artists. Their works and life stories may be helpful in approach to further understanding modern Indian art in its complexity. The work is complemented by several short appendices.
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The cultural context of the national monument on Vítkov Hill. The problem of the artistic expression and interpretation of the values and ideas
Hessová, Jana ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Matějů, Martin (referee)
The idea behind the National Monument was to build the statue to Jan Žižka, the legendary czech warrior, whose fight for freedom of religion was taken as the symbol for the czech nationalism in the 19s century. In the year 1882 a Society to Erect a Monument to Jan Žižka of Trocnov on the Žižka's hill was formed in a nearly restaurant. From that moment to really erection the Žižka statue was almost seventy years long period of history, filled by political and social changes, which also have marked the monument, as well as its perceiving in the public. Nowadays, the yang generation born in 80.s and growing up in freedom, do not follow the beckground ideas of this buildig and the statue is for them only a bizar piece of art work. But hier is not the comlet divide between this generation and the national history. It will be very important for the czech National Museum to work out a quality program of this buildig, because it is hier the bigest amout of potencional visitors ever - the whole Czech nation.
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