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Dedication as a Symbolic Code of Loyalties in Science during the Enlightenment and Pre-1848 Periods
Smyčka, Václav
The study is based on quantitative as well as qualitative research on nonfiction published between the 1780s and the 1840s, which captures how the genre of dedications developed over time. The source materials are interpreted in reference to a concept of loyalty that understands it as a social code that creates a reciprocal relationship between the autor, a social authority or patron, and the public. The code therefore serves as a means of negotiating the mutual positions of all three actors.
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The 'Loyal' Strategy in Sebestian Hnevkovsky's Epic Devin
Krejčová, Iva
This study focuses on the ideological and social background of Hnevkovsky's epic Devin (1805, 1829), insight into which is provided by Hnevkovsky's original manuscript and his correspondence, as well as by contemporary events in society like the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the revolutionary events in Europe during the first decade of the 19th century. In interpreting the different versions of the epic, the author of this study focuses on the subjects of women's emancipation and rights and freedoms, which were important for modelling the role of the ideal ruler and the functions of parliamentary disputation, and also for a notion of the 'golden age' of the Czech lands. Through an analysis of these themes, the author establishes how the narrator appraises collective national identity, defined as the loyal stance of a subject or group to the homeland, the nation, a ruler, or a more widely defined social order, as well as their own personal values (the emotion of love, personal goals of fame).
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The (Dis)loyal Stanislav Sucharda
Krummholz, Martin
Text deals with period controversies and dilemmas in the life and the work of the sculptor Stanislav Sucharda (1866 - 1916), who came from the patriotic countryside to Prague, where he became a member of several official institutions and of the Mánes Group as well. Historically acrimonious nationalism and patriotism of the Czech society complicated the breaking through of the modern art in that time
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Loyalty as a theme of artistic strategy
Petrasová, Taťána
This study is based on the assumption that cultural loyalties derives from military rituals, although the specific act of oath-taking may have been replaced by a different mechanism. An analysis of contemporary writings about e.g. J.V. Myslbek´s sculpture Loyalty or the Czech–Germans exhibition (Deutschböhmische Ausstellung) in Liberec (Reichenberg) 1906.
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Czech versus German? Discussions of Style in Prague in the 1820s
Machalíková, Pavla
The text contentrates on the construction of loyalty to a distinct national group through the use of certain characteristics in painting to express solidarity with a "national" style. In painting this debate on the existence of national schools in Bohemia can be observed as starting in the 1820s. Subsequent development led to the deliberate idealisation of a Czech school of painting based on adherence to certain characteristics that were considered "Czech" and were defined in opposition to the contemporary notion of German style.
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