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Social Tendencies and Vladimír Astl's Work
Knapová, Martina ; Wittlich, Petr (advisor) ; Prahl, Roman (referee)
One of the main objectives of this thesis is not only to map the life of Czech sculptor Vladimir Astl, but also explore various inspirational sources he might have used when creating social oriented pieces. Those are critical in is work. Typical avatars of plastics with social context are Žízeň (Thirst), Smutek (Sadness) or Stará žena (Old Woman), all of them from the period of 1905 - 1910. The initial chapter shortly discusses social problem which existed during the verge of 19th and 20th century and immediately influenced increasing use of social topics in art. Next chapter elaborates on these topics in more detail and focuses on changes of French society which were closely tied to the occurence of ambitious ideas to build monuments celebrating work of men. This chapter also discusses sculpture in France in more depth with focus on labor-oriented pieces from August Rodin, Jules Dalou and Henri Bouchard. The work of mentioned sculptors was dedicated to monuments celebrating labour. These formed a common inspiration source for social related themes in Czech sculpture of the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Next chapter continues to describe the foreign social tendencies and introduces a Belgian sculptor Constantin Meunier who made a significant impact on Czech lands with his pieces being...
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Provincial Mental Health Hospital Prague-Bohnice. Architecture and History
Krušina, Jan ; Biegel, Richard (advisor) ; Macek, Petr (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the architecture and history of the large area of today's Psychiatric Hospital in Bohnice, which was built in several stages between 1905-1925, considering the personality of architect Václav Roštlapil (1856-1930), who as a prominent figure participated in some representative buildings. The introduction focuses on the outset of a new field of psychiatry in the environment of the General Hospital in the New Town in Prague and especially the origin of a new typology in architecture, which then gradually spread to wider areas of Bohemia. The thesis clarifies the circumstances of the establishment of the Mental Health Hospital in Bohnice and is based on the study of archival materials, literature and tries to analyze the sources of its appearance, looking for sources of inspiration to put the Bohnice into historical context. In this thesis the hospital in Bohnice is seen as an exceptionally well-preserved example of this typology not only in the scale of individual buildings, but especially in the scale of the entire urban arrangement with the unmistakable Genius Loci. Keywords Architecture, turn of 19th and 20th century, art noveau, historicism, mental health hospitals, Václav Roštlapil, Mental Health Hospital Bohnice
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Social Tendencies and Vladimír Astl's Work
Knapová, Martina ; Wittlich, Petr (advisor) ; Prahl, Roman (referee)
One of the main objectives of this thesis is not only to map the life of Czech sculptor Vladimir Astl, but also explore various inspirational sources he might have used when creating social oriented pieces. Those are critical in is work. Typical avatars of plastics with social context are Žízeň (Thirst), Smutek (Sadness) or Stará žena (Old Woman), all of them from the period of 1905 - 1910. The initial chapter shortly discusses social problem which existed during the verge of 19th and 20th century and immediately influenced increasing use of social topics in art. Next chapter elaborates on these topics in more detail and focuses on changes of French society which were closely tied to the occurence of ambitious ideas to build monuments celebrating work of men. This chapter also discusses sculpture in France in more depth with focus on labor-oriented pieces from August Rodin, Jules Dalou and Henri Bouchard. The work of mentioned sculptors was dedicated to monuments celebrating labour. These formed a common inspiration source for social related themes in Czech sculpture of the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Next chapter continues to describe the foreign social tendencies and introduces a Belgian sculptor Constantin Meunier who made a significant impact on Czech lands with his pieces being...
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People and water. A contribution to the history of personal hygiene in the turn of the 19th and 20th century
KALVASOVÁ, Jana
This dissertation deals with not fully explored area of daily life, a personal hygiene. The main period which this work dwells on is the turn of the 19th and 20th century but sometimes I need to go further to the past when the fundamentals of the personal hygiene were laid. The work tries to devone the conditions of the hygiene which were influenced by sociocultural as well as scientific and technical factors. It also studies the personal hygiene including care of body, hair, teeth, cosmetics and body scent alike. Among these topics belong linen and clothes. One of the highlighted aims is revealing the function of spas (especially modern balneology) and up-and-coming physical education and sport in the increasing standarts of the personal hygiene. The heuristic base is composed of contemporary specialized literature and press as well as memoirs and encyclopeadias.
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