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Steampunk - nový styl designu, inspirace a filosofie
Machátová, Alena
This final thesis focuses on a current trend Steampunk, its design, inspiration and philosophy in connection with a lifestyle of today´s company. It deals with the emergence of Steampunk, its typical features, development and inspiring influences. It also deals with major Steampunk authors and their work.
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Zdaňování příjmů sportovců a umělců v ČR a EU
Vrtalová, Jana
The present study deals with income taxation of athletes and artists in the Czech Republic and member states of the European Union. The study first provides basic definitions of artists and athletes with regard to how they are respectively defined by the OECD and Czech legislature. The study focuses on the taxation of athletes who participate in individual sports, as well as athletes who engage in team sports. The athletes participating in individual sports may be freelancers, or they may be self-employed. Another distinction is drawn between amateur and professional athletes. The former usually participate in sport activities for pleasure, and in most cases, they are not entitled to a financial reward. Apart from amateurs and professionals, there exist the so-called semi-professional athletes who are members of a team and participate in competitions. However, the activity in question is mostly loss-making. If they do receive income, and it is lower than 30000 CZK per annum, the income qualifies for income tax exemption under §10 ZDP. The study is mainly concerned with artists and athletes because they constitute a group of taxpayers that is analysed independently within the scope of international agreements on the prevention of double taxation, be it the scope of the OECD or the UN. These agreements are designed to prevent multiple taxation, as well as bar tax and insurance evasion. The majority of the mutual agreements that the Czech Republic has signed with other countries contain a clause regarding artists and athletes. The study also provides information on the location of the texts dealing with artists and athletes within the above mentioned agreements. Czech legislation, however, does not mention the term athlete, or the legal status of athletes and sport organizations. Thus, there is not a uninanimous view on whether these taxpayers should be treated as employed, or self-employed. The status of employment (with respect to athletes and sport organizations) has been prevalent abroad. Many of the labour code regulations are not applicable to professional athletes (such as overtime hours or rest period), which is why it is easy for artists and athletes to misuse the system by not filing their returns, or, in the case of athletes, by engaging in the so-called Svarcsystem, which is illegal for others. Svarcsystem is prohibited mainly because it protects the self-employed much less than their employees. Thus, the selfemployed are not entitled to a paid holiday, gratuity, work injury compensation etc. Professional athletes and artists typically have a high income, which means that their involvement in these illegal activities may result in large-scale tax and insurance evasion. Such activities are profitable from their point of view of, but at the same time detrimental to the state budget. It needs to be emphasized that this is not a case of tax evasion, but it is rather an exploitation of the legal possibilities that allow one to pay lower taxes, a situation caused by the Czech Republic's insufficient legislation.
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Social engagement of artists: a case study of music albums by singer Katarzia and rappers Vec and Tono S.
Krchová, Petra ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Hroch, Miloš (referee)
Diploma thesis named Social engagement of artists: a case study of music albums by singer Katarzia and rappers Vec and Tono S. is a case study about social engagement of artists, concretely its representation in album Antigona from slovak singer Katarzia and in album Ultrazvuk by two slovak rappers Vec and Tono S. Thesis concentrates on social status of men and women, on a murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and situation in the society after it, and on the representation of those two topics in the eyes of artists of music albums and in the eyes of journalists in czech and slovak online magazines, who discuss and write about those music albums. Written documents, such as song lyrics, interviews, articles and reviews are analysed qualitatively, by the methods of a grounded theory. Topics, whom appear during the research, are afterwards labelled, being put into mutual contexts and illustrated by presenting concrete examples from materials. Final findings are afterwards reviewed, and its character revised with the help of two research questions, that are: "How do artists of music albums and journalists discussing those albums represent murder of a journalist and social situation in the society after it in song lyrics, interviews, articles and reviews?" and "How do artists of music albums and journalists...
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Analysis and Aspects of Art as an Alternative Investment and its Price Determinants
Mozolikova, Alica ; Benáček, Vladimír (advisor) ; Moravcová, Hana (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the potential of art as an alternative investment. To do this, we start with a brief history of art market that is followed by an analysis of art market structure. We cover numerous risks affecting the behavior in the market subject to information asymmetry. As far as the feasibility of art as an investment is concerned, we identify different types of alternative investment and compare their potential. Despite high opacity of the art market, more data are being made available giving us an opportunity to present a clearer explanation of the current state of the art market. A question has to be asked, does the value of art solely depend on the subjectivity of human taste or on an opportunity to speculate? The subject of the detailed discussion are, both, internal and external factors, which influence the value of artworks, and hence the sale price. Using econometric analysis of auction records, we aim to uncover objective factors, which determine the sale price. The analyses lead to a conclusion that the price determinants, the most notable of which are auction houses and auction location, affect the sale price to a different extent. Yet, regardless the price, our subjective personal pleasure from a particular art piece might be crucial. JEL Classification Key...
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Food as a Source of Meanings in Conceptual Art
Guhová, Vendula ; POSPISZYL, Tomáš (advisor) ; Uhnák, Tomáš (referee)
“Food as a Source of Meanings in Conceptual Art: Artistic Attitudes of Alison Knowles and Rirkrit Tiravanija” is a case study that examines the spectre of meanings mediated by food in the 20th century art and context-dependent changes of those. The thesis describes and compares the meanings of cooking and eating in Alison Knowles's pieces Propostion: Make a Salad and The Identical Lunch and Rirkrit Tiravanija's pieces Untitled (Pad/Thai) and Untitled (Free/Still), with regard to their contemporary and artistic context (Fluxus and relational aesthetics). It explores when do these activities - using quotidian acts - become an art piece and what mythology do these two artists build around themselves. One of the important aspects examined is a motive of connectivity.
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Chinese culture and the Czech interwar art
JANÁLOVÁ, Žaneta
Bachelor thesis Chinese culture and the Czech interwar art focuses on exhibitions of Chinese art in the Czechoslovak environment and their organisers in the period between the two world wars. The connection between Chinese art and Czechoslovakian collectors, travellers and artists of that period is the subject of this thesis. The author aims to identify how specific Czechoslovakian figures perceived, reflected and were affected by this non-European cultural influence.
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Psychological Aspects of Artistic Personality
Ottová, Jana ; Šípek, Jiří (advisor) ; Niederlová, Markéta (referee)
Background: The purpose of the master thesis was to explore connections among artistic cre- ation and some psychological aspects of the personality of artists. Apart from differences in creativity and psychopathology in theoretical part some characteristics of personality through the theories of personality are discussed. A sample of visual art university students and university of economics students (n=49) was tested on method GPOP, which in its core is based on the Jung's theory of psychological types. Conclusions: The results of incident research support the foreign studies results and indicate that artists score higher in "Intuition", "Perceiving" and "Feeling". Other high scores were measured in "Abstraction" and "Imagination" traits. In the last part of the study the obtained results are discussed. Keywords Art, Artists, Personal Traits, Creativity
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The Media Image of Visual Arts in Czech Television
Švarcová, Barbora ; BENDOVÁ, Helena (advisor) ; POSPISZYL, Tomáš (referee)
The thesis consists of a context and textual analysis of Artmix, a TV show dedicated to visual arts, while touching on other relevant programs on Czech TV. The results of these analyses are then brought into theoretical setting primarily using the philosophical and social concept of the Field of Power as defined by Pierre Bourdieu in his book Rules of Art.
Principal themes, interspersing throughout the text, are the limits of reflections of visual arts through TV screen and hidden interpretational patterns applied to visual arts through its media image. Furthermore there is an additional issue of traditional notions of an artist existing within our society, weighed down by history, or the quest for the ideal format of a TV show reflecting visual arts.
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History and development of the graphical techniques and its importance. Printing from height a its important authors.
SEDLÁKOVÁ, Marie
Diploma thesis has an aim to present to students of elementary school graphical methods of relief printing by method of methodological video, for better understanding and imagination of students. The theoretical part occupies with graphic, the fenomena, that accompanies us from prehistoric times. The thesis is going to present method of relief printing, its development and important authors of relief printing. It makes the students familiar with the most important graphic works in history and makes their analysis. It presents the most common subjects and social aspects of graphical production in the final part. The practical part elaborates technology of instructive video and following application for students of various age and its final marking their work. The conclusion of thesis create supplements of the practical part, examples of models and final works.
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