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Composition and decomposition as an contemporary art strategy
Zakharova, Iryna ; JANOŠČÍK, Václav (advisor) ; LEDVINA, Josef (referee)
Our changing relationships to things and materials forces us to seek new strategies and patterns to create "artistic situations," the meaning of which is reversible, non-fixed. Each situation can be decomposed and no one thing is more important than another. This unfettered process of thinking about things offers more liberated forms without finding any particular higher importance, or truth. Just as speculative realists were not uplifting the knowledge of the individual about things, the thing by itself circulates and operates without our participation. This idea of anther unknown reality, in which everything is fundamentally different and where things are circulating without us, brings more open ways to compose and decompose things in artistic practice. Because one does not have to react to things as they are, but only to things as they appear. Perhaps what makes an artistic gesture so powerful is not the gesture itself but the moment before the gesture or between the gestures. These spaces between the gestures allow the viewer to reflect on what is being seen and experienced.
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Ivan Kafka, Photography between documentation and art
Mertová, Alexandra ; JANOŠČÍK, Václav (advisor) ; LEDVINA, Josef (referee)
The thesis deals with photographic work of conceptual artist Ivan Kafka and questions regarding the thin line between technical documentation and its artistic quality. It focuses primarily on issues related to the documentation of art and presentation of installa-tion records. Issues accompanying photographic documentation of art are presented using examples of specific works by Ivan Kafka and his approach from a technical and artistic point of view. The text is built around thematic interviews with the author Ivan Kafka, art photographer Martin Polák and art historian Pavlina Morgan. The purpose of these interviews was to present a specification of Kafka's documentary approach from different perspectives and point to the exceptional, as well as problematic aspects of his photographic work. Individual subject areas are developed considering the problematic questions concerning documentation of photography.
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Czech art around 1980 from the point of view of Cultural sociology
Ledvina, Josef ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Wittlich, Petr (referee)
The subject of the presented thesis is the situation of Czech visual arts at the turn of the seventies and eighties of the twentieth century. Special attention is paid to the so-called "official art", art sanctioned by the state and Party, and its institutional basis the Czech Union of Visual Artists. On the basis of the analysis of renewed concept of Socialist Realism and hierarchy of genres presented at that time by official art criticism, destruction of the boundary separating the realm of arts from the realm of politics is argued as the main feature of the official definition of artistic production. In a sharp contrast to this official stand stood a radically different definition anchored in the tradition of modern art. According to it a true artist has to be consistently disrespectful of all external interference, be it political or economic. Through the notion of "field of cultural production" conceived by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu , this fundamental opposition of radically different definitions is viewed as a struggle between heteronomous and autonomous principles of hierarchisation. The autonomous position of artists excluded from the public artistic life by the process of "normalisation" ( the so-called Generation of the sixties) as well as a different though related position of...
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Position of Czech Documentary Photography During the Normalization Era
Folk, Čeněk ; VANČÁT, Pavel (advisor) ; Ledvina, Josef (referee)
The subject of my thesis is the position of Czech documentary photography during the normalization era in Czech territory. The term "position" encompasses several aspects of review: political and creative conditions under which the Czech documentary photography was originating; its status within the photography as artistic discipline and within other artistic disciplines; thinking about documentary photography and its changes over time; social application of documentary photography and its impact on society and, last but not least, its impact on political events. In the 70s and 80s the Czech documentary photography reached the greatest expansion, despite the uneasy political background. My thesis examines (among other things) how, why and under what circumstances this boom occurred.
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The Finnish Landscape Photography and Its Role in Helsinki School
Bureš, Mojmír ; SILVERIO, Robert (advisor) ; Ledvina, Josef (referee)
In my bachelor thesis I am focused on the images of the Finnish landscape photography and relationship to nature due to the harsh geographical conditions. I will describe the political and cultural influences that affected the aesthetic thinking about perception of scanned landscapes. Furthermore, I would like to deal with the influence by art that have shaped and inspired the Finnish authors and compare it with the perception of the country abroad. For example Dieseldorf photography school (Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky), Japanese photographers (Hiroshi Sugimoto, Rinko Kawauchi) Czech photographers (Josef Sudek, Josef Koudelka) and the others .
List of the authors:
Into Konrad Inha, Caj Breme, Ismo HÖLTTÖ, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Ilkka Halso, Maija Savolainen, Eeva Karhu, Kalle Kataila, Jyrki Parantainen, Elina Brotherus, Maanantai Collective, Mikko Rikala, Sandra Kantanen, Tiina Itkonen, Jorma Puranen, Susanna Majuri, Petri Juntunen, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Nanna Hänninen, Pentti Sammallahti, Karl Emil Stahlberg, Riitta Päiväläinen, Marja Pirilä, Ritva Kovalainen, Sanni Seppo, Juha Suonpää
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Animal from the Garry Winogrand´s point of view
Tvarůžka, Václav ; DVOŘÁK, Tomáš (advisor) ; Ledvina, Josef (referee)
Work is an introduction to the work of Gary Winogrand and also analysis of the issue of limited possibility of looking which manifests in the particular problem, of impossibility of looking at animal. Work is based on essay from John Berger who concludes this communication problem trough the rise of capitalism and lost connection between human and animal creature. This thing is also connected to the phenomenon of zoological garden. Work is set in this certain context and further it is analyzing the photographs from Winogrand himself and also other authors, which are dealing with affinity problems like for example problem of authenticity (in the photography with the motive of animal), which is represented by Joan Fontcuberta. Or the problem of anthropomorphization (Walt Disney).
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Nefoťte
Yakovleva, Alexandra ; LEDVINA, Josef (advisor) ; DVOŘÁK, Tomáš (referee)
Práca, založená na vlastnom morálnom a etickom pochybovaní o probléme fotografovania cudzincov na uliciach, pokus vysporiadať sa s dilemou analýzou problému z hľadiska podmienok legislatívy, filozofie a umeleckého prístupu, náboženstva a kultúry.
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Independent publishing of printed periodicals and work with photography
Menšl, Teodorik ; SILVERIO, Robert (advisor) ; Ledvina, Josef (referee)
The topic of my thesis is Independent publishing of printed periodicals and work with photography describes the history of foreign magazines following the first use of photography. The work is mainly focused on contemporary magazines that are published once a year, biannual or rarely monthly. These magazines are not owned by any publishing company, their basic editorial team rarely exceeds five members. Editors cooperate on the basis of contributors or long-term employees who are employed externally. Most of these magazines do not adjust the content for "clients" but they try to work with them on the basis of sponsorship. Sometimes a client who wants advertising in the magazine, needs to adapt to that style. These periodicals have their large base of readers with that also related social events and other activities to boost sales and gain new subscribers.
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Photography and morals
Tomková, Zuzana ; Ledvina, Josef (advisor) ; SILVERIO, Robert (referee)
This bachelor thesis on photography and morals deals with the occurrence of disease and dying in photography. It intentionally leaves out the examples of war photography and focuses on the part where it serves as a memory. The thesis encompasses the postmorten portrait, cancer and its examples of depicting it in history. In the second part the thesis compares two photographic approaches to the topic of cancer. Using the knowledge obtained it tries to approach the goal of the thesis: whether or not is taking photographs of such topic moral and if so, why.
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