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František Kaván (1866-1941) in the Letters for his Wife and Friends
Charvátová, Eliška ; Ebelová, Ivana (advisor) ; Zachař, Michael (referee)
This rigorous thesis presents compiled and edited collection of letters from the czech landscape painter František Kaván (1866-1941), a scholar of Julius Mařák's painting school, to his second wife Pavla Kavánová-Šírová, the publisher and gallerist František Topič, the painter Oldřich Blažíček and the librarian and bibliographer Ladislav Jan Živný. The edition is based on 259 letters kept in the Museum of Czech Literature in Prague and the Archives of the National Gallery in Prague. The correspondence describes a life of the painter from the year 1894 to 1941. The rigorous thesis analyses and comments approachable literature and deals with relevant sources of material. Editorial comment summarizes principles and methods applied in this thesis, one part is dedicated to the editor Svatopluk Klír. The main parts are chapters based on commentary of selected passages of 259 edited documents with further relevant information in the apparatus. A part of the thesis are indices and list of sources and literature. Fulltext edition of mentioned documents is a part of my bachelor and diploma thesis. This edition of Kaván's letters from 19th to second part of 20th century reflects till now uncompiled sources and throug them give as a new insight into life and work the significant czech landscape painter, his...
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Karel Maria Drahotín Villani. Nobleman {--} Patriot.
SPOUSTOVÁ, Petra
Nowdays Karel Maria Drahotín baron Villani is practically unknown although he belonged to renowned and brilliant individualities of the Czech cultural life in the 19th century. First of all he was popular as liberal politician who held the same opinions like František Palacký. Villani gave himself to poetry as well though his poems did not reach the top. He was one of first authors who appreciated Mácha´s Máj. The thesis deals not only with baron Villani´s political opinions and his literary work but also his public activities, salon of his family and his legency created after his death as well.
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"A Drudgery Towards the Other Life" William Blake - a Prophet In Modern World?
KOPEČNÁ, Zuzana
The thesis deals with life and particularly works of William Blake, one of the most prominent representatives of English poetry and art. His work stems from his dissatisfaction and resistance to religious and secular doctrines. He is known as an original poet, an engraver and a painter, a graphic artist and an illustrator, as well as a mystic and a visionary. In the midst of the birth of the modern world, during the War of Independence, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, he considered his talent for design and his predispositions of the Old Testament prophets a direct inspiration for him and his prophetic mission. He identified with all types of oppression and enslavement of humanity and tried to gibbet them in his works. He mainly criticised repressed sexuality, which according to him leads to wars, industrialism and perverted science. The apocalyptic character of many of his works is closely related to the time in which he lived and worked. These are mainly so-called prophetic books, which he also printed, and in which he used synthesis of artistic means. Most of his life he spent in poverty and solitude, misunderstood and despised. This reassured him of his real prophetic destiny. Blake?s work became an inspiration for following generations of artists; but only the 20th century fully discovered him and understood the importance of his prophetic vision. Blake sees a redemptive power of the real art, which helps cleanse people?s inner eyes, and gives them the opportunity to be freed from enslaving forces.
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