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Cultural Policy in Qatar and the Question of Identity
Nízka, Zuzana ; Ondráš, František (advisor) ; Ťupek, Pavel (referee)
This thesis deals with Qatar's cultural policy and question of national identity. The main goal of the thesis was to analysis Qatar's foreign cultural policy and to identify its main pillars. These pillars aim to help the foreign public to build their imagination of Qatar, its culture and values. The theoretical framework of the thesis goes back to theories of public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy and nation branding. These theories define benefits of foreign cultural presentation for state and specify conditions of successful presentation. Beside that they also describe role of state and non-state actors in the process of foreign presentation and point out the most effective tools towards foreign public. The theoretical background is followed by an analysis of Qatar's public and cultural diplomacy. The analysis starts with Qatar's initial projects which include the foundation of satellite channel network al-Jazeera and opening of big education campus in Doha Education City. Further chapters concentrate on new cultural policy as it is defined by national development projects. Since the main topic of the thesis is Qatar's foreign cultural policy the text includes also reactions of international media, organizations and other states to Qatar's activities. The conclusion of the thesis summarizes ideas...
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Exhibition versus "exhibitioning". The Czechoslovak pavilions at Expo 1967 in Montreal and Expo 1970 in Osaka
Nekvindová, Terezie ; Klimešová, Marie (advisor) ; Šetlík, Jiří (referee) ; Švácha, Rostislav (referee)
The paper focuses on the Czechoslovak pavilions at the 1967 and 1970 World Expos. Both events took place in the period around 1968, when, however briefly, the Czechoslovak visual arts partially overlapped with the state's cultural policy. The pavilions (especially at Expo 70) also reflected the socio- political contexts of the year 1968.. In Czechoslovakia towards the end of the 1960s, the purpose of "exhibitioning" - i.e., the state-sponsored exhibition trade - was to communicate with the public and to (re)present the country abroad. Its main goal was to promote and spread the ruling ideology. On the other hand, the Czechoslovak visual arts scene was beginning to consciously work with the medium of the exhibition as a comprehensively composed unit, either through innovative exhibition design and installation or through installation art. While the exhibition trade reached its high point in the 1960s and began to disintegrate into rigid mannerism towards the end of the decade, real experiments with the format of the art exhibition were just beginning. This study focuses on the question of how these two fields (art and the exhibition trade) approached the medium of the exhibition in the 1960s. I study the Czechoslovak pavilions as a cultural artifact in which aesthetic, social, political, and economic forces...
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Art spaces in geographical contexts: the case of Karlovy Vary
Adamec, Vítězslav ; Matoušek, Roman (advisor) ; Svobodová, Hana (referee)
This bachelor thesis is devoted to art spaces in Karlovy Vary and geographical contexts related to them. By using interviews with representatives of these spaces is obtained the image of culture of Karlovy Vary from a spaces players' perspective. Geographical context was understood by various levels of the scale, from the close environs to the influence of international events. Next research question was devoted to political and economic influences on the cultural life of the city and eventually it was turned attention to the net of mutual relations between culture players in Karlovy Vary. The thesis pointed to the contradictoriness of contemporary cultural situation of the city, which is the expression of the imbalance between the free activity of art spaces and the pressure to the economic profit. Keywords: cultural geography, urban geography, art spaces, art, cultural policy, geographical context
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Media image of czech fine art in czech media in 1948-53
Dušková, Kateřina ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Knapík, Jiří (referee)
The thesis aims to describe the media image of the czech fine art during 1948-1953 in the cultural periodicals "Kulturní politika", "Tvorba", "Var" and "Lidové noviny". It focuses on two topics that occurred most frequently in these periodicals;That is the definition of art and socialist realism and shaping artists and society. Social realism is characterized not only by description, but also by inspiration sources like Czech fine art of 19th century and the tendency to oppose competitive or similar artistic styles and trends like formalism, naturalism, academicism and kitsch. Shaping the artists and society is understood in terms of upringing, education and enlightenment. In connection with these two areas this thesis focuses on history, cultural policy of the Communist Party, the organizational structure of artistic production, distribution of art, shaping artists, penetration of art into public and private space, socialist realism and an attitude of visual artists to new conditions of artistic production. Different features were also included to capture the uniqueness of each periodical. The starting point of the thesis is a historical and qualitative analysis.
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Comparison of the organization systems of state monuments care in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia
Morawiec, Miroslav ; Háva, Petr (advisor) ; Novotný, Vilém (referee)
The Czech Republic is a country of a great number of historical sights. To protect them, the system of state preservation care has been established, the part of which are the Czech Ministry of culture, the Regional Councils' and Municipalities' with extended scope of authority Branches of Historical Sights Care and the National Historical Sights Institute. Nevertheless, the problem is that despite existing extensive system of state historical sights care there are cases of protection failure and progressive devastation and extinction of many cultural sights. The similar failures occur in Poland and Slovakia as well. The objective of this diploma thesis is to find out whether the present system of the sights care in the Czech Republic and comparable systems in the neighbouring countries - Poland and Slovakia secure the sufficient care of the cultural heritage, or if there are alternatives in organization of this area of the state administration. Subsequently, according to the available information it will be considered which of the systems of the state sights care seems to be the most suitable and effective for the defined role and at the same time the potential risks that can be caused by the particular systems will be identified. The following methods are used in my diploma thesis: Comparing -...
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Political and educational role of public libraries in the 50 and 60 years in Ostrava region
Nováková, Zuzana ; Večeřová, Petra (advisor) ; Římanová, Radka (referee)
Political and educational role of public libraries in the 50 and 60 years in Ostrava region The thesis is focused on cultural politics of the communist regime in the 50s and 60s of the 20th century in relation to public libraries. Based on archival materials the main attention is paid to the situation in the Ostrava region Cultural policy was aimed in two directions. First through repression, when citizens were banned from access to ideas and works that the regime considered as harmful or objectionable. This activity was implemented by censorship of printed materials, sorting of collections and persecution of opponents. Second way to filling the gaps after undesirable denied authors by pro-regime publications, written in the style of socialist realism. Public libraries were using different sorts of methods how to bring readers to this new literature and how to bring them up to be loyal and conscious builders of socialism - e.g. discussions and reader's conferences, literature contests and polls, Fucik's badge, Month of books and so on. The focus is also on libraries promotion of actions and activities supporting the policy of the Party and the government, such as celebrations of party anniversary, recruitment in mining, atheistic education of readers etc.
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Warriors of Faith in the Third Czechoslovak Republic
Doležal, Kryštof ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Czesany Dvořáková, Tereza (referee)
! Warriors of Faith is the first Czechoslovak colored feature film, which narrates the final stage of Hussite Wars. This film should approved the legitimacy of nationalized cinematography and beca- me the representative work of the Czechoslovak art. This movie fitted in the nationalistic folklore of Czech culture, hussite tradition and allowed the argumentation against Germans, liberals and to em- phasize other aspects of Czech nationalism. Cinematography and press were the most important mass media in those days and were regulated or controlled by the government of National Front. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to clarify (through media analysis) in what matter the press reflec- ted the movie, or rather in what sense resonated the Czech nationalism in the selected texts.
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Strategic multi-level governance in cultural policy
Dušková, Zdenka ; Háva, Petr (advisor) ; Novotný, Vilém (referee)
The master's thesis "Strategic multilevel governance in cultural policy" deals with the often omitted topic of cultural policy. This field is observed from the strategic governance point of view and its position is analysed according to the levels of governance - supra-national, national, and sub-national. To explore the current state of the culture, it had to be placed into a framework forming context, where cultural policy takes place. Therefore, the analysis of this work dealt with the activities of political institutions according to the evaluation framework and with the evaluation of two specific cases of public policy documents of national and sub-national levels, including their application. From the perspective of major institutions at various levels of governance, especially organizations specialized on the field of culture, certain effort of conceptual solution of partial and overall issues of this field was found. The specific implementation and responsibility are often delegated to the lower levels of governance. Mainly, the continuity in the strategic documents topic and time at the multi-level governance is very problematic, as well as the funding necessary for their implementation. At the end of this work, specific recommendations, which should result in the improvement of strategic...
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Party press and cultural policy: district of Pardubice during the normalization
Trestrová, Veronika ; Končelík, Jakub (advisor) ; Suk, Pavel (referee)
This thesis gives a comprehensive picture of the press organs of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the district of Pardubice during the so-called normalization. The first chapter describes the historical contexts of this era, particularly changes in policy after the onset of Gustáv Husák at the head of the Communist Party in April 1969. With this change is related to another topic: extensive purges in the Communist Party, which took place in 1970. The second chapter focuses on changes in the media at the beginning of normalization, in particular the abolition of some periodicals and restoring censorship, and changes in the cultural field, especially strengthening the focus on the Soviet Union, the emergence of new artists' unions and various legal regulation in order to strengthen ideological supervision of the this sphere . The third and fourth sections are devoted East Bohemian press: daily newspaper Pochodeň, published in Hradec Králové, and Pardubice district newspaper Zář. It briefly describes the history of these newspapers and their effect during the Prague Spring and subsequent developments in normalization. Attention is then focussed mainly on their cultural sections and their scope, content and authors of articles. Analysis of the articles from the cultural sections provides an overview of...
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Uses of Gaelic Folk Traditions in Selected Plays by W.B.Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge
Laurincová, Alžběta ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Pilný, Ondřej (referee)
1 Summary It is the various aspects of the traditional Irish narrative - that is of a mythology or a folktale - such as old traditions of the peoples and various motifs which can be identified as the traits of the Irish literary canon that bear the greatest importance with regard to the national heritage of the Irish. It is important to focus upon that issue and analyze it more profoundly through the works of the earliest innovators in the genre. With regard to that, it must be said that the most striking significance can definitely be granted to the first representatives of the genre of mythology or a folktale who actively took part in the process called "Celtic" or "Gaelic Renaissance," that means to William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge and Lady Augusta Gregory. In the thesis their works are analyzed closely and the traditional motifs and other literary means of representing the national heritage of the Irish are revealed. In this respect, the following works of theirs are in question: Deirdre by W. B. Yeats, Deirdre of the Sorrows by J. M. Synge and a chapter from Cuchulain of Muirthemne, "Fate of the Sons of Usnach," by Lady Gregory. Before the actual analysis of the concrete works several key terms are explained as well, to enable the reader to recognize the context and to acquaint themselves...
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