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Czechoslovak CIAM Chapter after the Second World War
Hanáčková, Marcela ; Klusáková, Luďa (referee) ; Švácha, Rostislav (advisor)
Swiftly describing Czechoslovak participation in the thirties the stress of this dissertation on the history of the Czechoslovak CIAM chapter after the second war. It describes the success of the Czechoslovak presentation on the congress in Bridgwater (national and regional plannig), the cooperation on the development of the CIAM Grid with Le Corbusier, the missed opportunity to hold the congress in Prague, the impact of centralization on the Czechoslovak CIAM group, the influence of socialist realism on East European countries, the unabled activities on the following three congresses and finaly the renewed participation at the last congress in Dubrovnik. While doing so it concentrates itself on four themes: regional planning, synthesis of the arts, historical centres and habitat which were all discussed at post-war CIAM.
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The image of Japan in Czech society of second half of 19th century
Kvasnička, Jiří ; Kubiš, Karel (referee) ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor)
This master's thesis intends to capture the image of Japan in Czech society, which was formed in the second half of 19th century. Japan, a country previously almost unknown for European people, had transformed itself from a faraway, mysterious Far Eastem country into a world power during fifty years, which naturally resulted in change of its image in Europe. Reconstruction of historical image in certain society is dependent on sources, which had the greatest influence on view of the world of people of that time. fu this thesis, those sources are divided into two categories, "image-creating" and "image-forming". The first one is historical school textbooks of geography, which had the most significant impact on students' way of creating image of the world in their mind. fu the second category, there are newspapers, magazines, caricatures and encyc1opedias, which helped those student s form images in their adult !ife. In the first part of this thesis, I compare the image of Japan and that of China In order to highlight Japan's uniqueness and specificity, how much it was emancipated from traditional image of Asia, and how much the image was supported by facts. In the second part, I try to analyze four most important aspects of image of Japan in the Czech society at that time. First one is based on questions,...
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Reception of darwinism in Bohemia between 1859 and 1918
Tomsová, Julie ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (referee) ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor)
In this B.A. thesis I focus closer on the conditions of the reception of Darwinism in Bohemia in the period between 1859 and 1918. My research deals with the basic mapping and evaluation of the process of acceptance of Darwinism in Czech society, both in public discourse and in more specialized discourse of academic society and in the field of theology. In terms of the professional and scientific discourse I examine the questions of when, through which channels, and in what forms the works of Charles Darwin got into Czech general public; and how people accepted and reflected them. I also examine the responses on Darwin's theories which appeared in contemporary press and literature. I assumed that attitude of particular social groups toward Darwin and his theory was different. Distinct viewpoints took naturalists and scientists and public administration and the Catholic Church. And somewhere between these two different viewpoints occurred the general public. In the thesis I have analysed the process of the reception of Darwinism in Bohemia in the mentioned period and arrived to conclusions that this process did not take place accordingly in all three monitored discourses - public, academic and theological. The ambivalence between mainly positive reception of academic society and negative reaction of the...
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Formation of the cult of personality (on the example of Czechoslovakia 1945-1957)
Huml, Petr ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor) ; Pullmann, Michal (referee)
This Bachelor-Thesis focuses on the analysis of the genesis of personality cult on the example of Czechoslovakia in 1945 - 1957, including the reference to, so called, "First Republic". On the grounds of the contents analysis of rich sources, mainly drawn from archives, there is shown how the personality cult was established. It also shows its original signs and its meaning for a state or a regime. The analysis is suported by a large number of citations from primary sources which allows an immediate understanding of the studied phenomenon. The large number of comparison of periodical press and tables based on simple statistics concerning a question of renaming and naming after leading statesmen. The autor supports his argumentation by examples drawing on comparison with similar cases of personality cults, that appeared in different states, where they played not small role in the life of society. In the last chapter is a summary of the analysis and the results of the research carried by the author. The conclusion also offers certain description of the field of research, and a proposal of definition of the personality cult.
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Social life in Humpolec in the first half of the 20th century
Krajíček, Jan ; Randák, Jan (referee) ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor)
This thesis deals with the city life and emphasizes it's changes during the time of The First Republic, Protectorate and the postwar period. In the thirty-year period it takes down various trends in the life of provincial town Humpolec, especially the changes of the life style and inspirations and cause of this changes. It deals also with the adoption of incoming social patterns in local society.
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Changes in the function of the public space: Venceslas square
Kubecová, Barbora ; Pullmann, Michal (referee) ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor)
My bachelor thesis has been focused on analysis of functional changes of a square as a public space. Squares in medieval cities used to serve particularly as market places; however, they also were places of gathering and places where the most important secular and religious institutions used to be placed. In big cities more squares were necessary to ensure certain operation, the function of which was not identical. In modern days the function of public places has changed even more. I have concentrated on one example of one Prague square that has always dominated among the others not only thanks to its size but especially its numerous social functions. I have become familiar with Kevin Lynch's theory on creating a picture of a city, where public places and namely squares are given a specific role. I have presented a basic review of Wenceslas Square development from its foundation until today, and have presented its functions, building development, function as a memory place, centre of business and social life. I have assessed its importance in comparison with other Prague squares and have concentrated on artistic and social and cultural points of view. I especially pointed out its development on the break of 19th and 20th centuries, where the medieval market place was turned into a modern avenue by which a...
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Large cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - crossroads of transformation. Urbanistic strategies in comparative perspective
Janata, Michal ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor) ; Štaif, Jiří (referee)
This dissertation goes into tension which is pmi of every seat, i. e. follows rift between cultural and material memory on the one hand and vision and perspective on the other hand. The aspiration of this degree work is formulating question, whether one can assume that is possible from the concrete historical context of some European cities in 19th century and 20th century taking account of the cities from another cultural tenitories to deduce typology of policies of urban dynamics ofthe European lm·ge cities in the 19th century and 20th century . Subject ofthis work can be resume like this: urbanization as primary meaning of 19th century, chronotop of cities in the 19th century and emergence of urbanism and town planning, modemization and industrialization founding origins of industrial cities, electrification, sewerage, appem·eance of cities in the 20th centmy and at long last postmodemist epilogue. This thesis focuses attention on urban strat egy of four cities: Paris, London, Berlin and Vienna. Investigates the ways ofWestem ideas ofurban society. In compmison with city-planning in 19th century is that in 20th centmy more interdisciplinary as it is tumed out in book called Sodal Justice and the City by David Harvey. The penultimate chapter is concemed with change of conception ofmodem city in post-modem...
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Trans - Rhenic Europe on the mental map of the 17th century English traveller
Radiměřská, Božena ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor) ; Křížová, Markéta (referee)
First of all, the thesis "Trans-Rhenic Europe on the Mental Map of the Seventeenth Century English Traveller" dealt with the problem of the other European identity as reflected in the English travel writing of the seventeenth century. The crucial questions were if any coherent whole was distinguished on the mental map of the 17th century English traveller in the area of "Trans-Rhenic Europe", and what could be the uniting characteristics in cultural terms. By "Trans-Rhenic Europe", the geographical area delimited by rivers Rhine and Dnieper from West and East, by Baltic from North, and Turkish border from South was meant.
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