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Camp Phenomenon and its Manifestation and Forms in Contemporary Popular Music
Hudzíková, Eliška ; Borecký, Felix (advisor) ; Švantner, Martin (referee)
1 ABSTRAKT HUDZÍKOVÁ, Eliška. Camp Phenomenon and its Manifestation and Forms in Contemporary Popular Music. [Magister thesis]. Charles University on Prague. Faculty of Humanities; Department of Electronic Culture and Semiotics. Supervisor: Mgr. Felix Borecký. Professional qualification level: Master's degree. Prague: FHS UK, 2015. This Magister thesis examines the camp phenomenon. Despite the wide scope of the term I will try to come up with a universal definition or several basic definitions which will after serve as a base for my following conclusions. The main source of my thesis is an essay Notes On a Camp written by Susan Sontag. This essay I will apply to contemporary (20th and 21st century) popular music in which I will search for camp signs and campy gestures in the work of independent popular and mainstream artists and performers. The main focus area for this thesis will be primarily visual aspect of their work - costumes, videos, appearance, … The line between campy and not campy is very thin and indefinite, that is why I will try to draw it demonstrating camp signs on chosen samples. I would also try to point out that in contemporary popular culture we consume some forms of camp without being aware that it is actually camp what we consume. KEYWORDS: camp, campy, kitsch, gay culture, popular...
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Literary and film Kytice or Problems of film adaptation and attempt to find kitsch
Havlíková, Anna ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Mravcová, Marie (referee)
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to compare the two different medias, literature and film, and specifically Erben's and Brabec's Kytice, while detection of kitsch in the movie. In the first part of the bachelor thesis deals with the film adaptations of literary works, focusing on open and closed adaptation, as way as interpreting a literary text, as the original film, the semiotics of film and finally the narrator of film. On the literature as on the film this thesis is trying to look out narratological perspective. The thesis takes both media as a text types, which updats narrative. The second part is dedicated to the kitsch, and describes its etymology, history, and not least its general definition. The third part of this thesis interprets Erben's Kytice, continues with comparing the two different types of media, while is trying to describe the way of adapting literary writing in to the film and compares these two media, while is trying to find a notification of kitsch. Keywords Karel Jaromír Erben, František Antonín Brabec, Kytice, film adaptation, kitsch.
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Kitsch in the visual arts and the presence kitsch in my work
Olšarová, Markéta ; Korbička, Pavel (referee) ; Trnková, Barbora (advisor)
The work deals with kitsch, which appears in the personal life of the author, her work and in the households of their loved ones. It examines the form of kitsch and its benefits. It compares his condemned emotional skill with its contribution to personal pleasure. It seeks the meaning of kitsch with regard to taste. During the work, short videos on this topic were created and which are incorporated into the final installation.
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The world of Kitsch and possibilities of Eco`s Semiotics of Mass Communication
Sedláková, Anna ; Borecký, Felix (advisor) ; Švantner, Martin (referee)
This diploma thesis explores the phenomenon of kitsch. One of the aims of the thesis is to address significant theories (H. Broch, M. Kundera, P. Rezek and T. Kulka) and to analyze them further in relation to the central concept of Umberto Eco, which defines kitsch as a communication. According to Eco, kitsch is not to be defined solely by the structural qualities of the work, but also by the intention that the author creates and by the means that the work is later perceived by the audience. The focus of this thesis is to be pointed not on the kitsch as a definition of a certain type of object and its aesthetic evaluation, but rather on the attitudes and interpretations that transform objects and thoughts into kitsch. Another aim of the thesis is to mark a possible shift in conception of kitsch in context of the changes brought by the age of new media - the changes that radically change the ways of communication, and the organization of society, too. Such change proposes the use of kitsch both as an emotional and simplifying approach. Kitsch, in its wider conception, becomes a pervasive and actual phenomenon. In addition to the characteristics of new media, the thesis uses the concept of Cyberculture by Pierre Lévy and the Liquid Times theory of Zygmunt Bauman. In its conclusion, the thesis attempts to...
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The journey of tattoos
TUMPACHOVÁ, Kristýna
Kristýna Tumpachová's Bachelor thesis goes into issues with tattoos and its transformation. The key theme of the thesis is mainly the history of tattooing, their function and their metastasis from the former, which began to appear in pre-literary cultures to the present. It also tries to find answers to questions such as "Did the fuction of tattoos totally disappear or is it vice versa?" "How do they get tattoos to kitsches?" It not only points to an aesthetic extent, but also to anthropological and social dimension and takes tattoos not as a product of a new generation, but also looks at it as if it has been a major and important part of every culture throughout the centuries.
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Courious World. Possibilities of application of the theme in pedagogic practise
Forman, Dominik ; Sedlák, Michal (advisor) ; Fulková, Marie (referee)
Forman, D .: Curious World. Possibilities of applicatiom of the theme in pedagogic practise. [Diploma thesis] Prague 2015 - Charles University, Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts, 79 p. (Attachments 7 artistic realizations - oil paintings small and medium size) The thesis is based on a comprehensive comparsion of major interpretation avant-garde art and the modernist thinking, which determined crucially interpretation of the most important events in the art history of 20th century. This work brings together three major confrontations looks at the intentions of selected representatives of avant-garde art and focuses on problematic moment of "interruption" the progression of the avant-garde by socialist realism. Three positions are views of art theorists Clement Greenberg, Theodor Adorno and Boris Groys. Didactic part of this thesis is realized by art education series, which is inspidated by this topic. It focuses on understanding the most basic principles of geometric abstraction, constructivism and abstract expressionism by students. The artwork is also inspired by this topic, it contains the collection of oil paintings. Keywords: avant-garde, kitsch, socialist realism, interpretation of art, art discourse, comparsion, Greenberg, Groys, Adorno
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Hanging Picture in Contemporary Visual Culture
Vranková, Ivana ; Půtová, Barbora (advisor) ; Hoftichová, Petra (referee)
The bachelor thesis' topic is the hanging picture in contemporary households with a special focus on the issue of pre-fabricated reproductions sold in hypermarkets such as Hornbach or Ikea. The hanging picture is put into the broader context of its historical development, also the transformation of its functions is discussed. One of the chapters focuses specifically on the topic of reproductions, the following one places the researched phenomenon into the context of works on mass culture and kitsch. The current research on pictures in households is presented, which is then followed by the description of my own empirical study. Its objective is to explore the individual differences in the motivations, preferences and importance of criteria influencing the decision making process in choosing pictures for households. But also to discover some more general patterns in the evaluation of pictures offered in Hornbach and Ikea by their potential customers. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Camp Phenomenon and its Manifestation and Forms in Contemporary Popular Music
Hudzíková, Eliška ; Borecký, Felix (advisor) ; Švantner, Martin (referee)
1 ABSTRAKT HUDZÍKOVÁ, Eliška. Camp Phenomenon and its Manifestation and Forms in Contemporary Popular Music. [Magister thesis]. Charles University on Prague. Faculty of Humanities; Department of Electronic Culture and Semiotics. Supervisor: Mgr. Felix Borecký. Professional qualification level: Master's degree. Prague: FHS UK, 2015. This Magister thesis examines the camp phenomenon. Despite the wide scope of the term I will try to come up with a universal definition or several basic definitions which will after serve as a base for my following conclusions. The main source of my thesis is an essay Notes On a Camp written by Susan Sontag. This essay I will apply to contemporary (20th and 21st century) popular music in which I will search for camp signs and campy gestures in the work of independent popular and mainstream artists and performers. The main focus area for this thesis will be primarily visual aspect of their work - costumes, videos, appearance, … The line between campy and not campy is very thin and indefinite, that is why I will try to draw it demonstrating camp signs on chosen samples. I would also try to point out that in contemporary popular culture we consume some forms of camp without being aware that it is actually camp what we consume. KEYWORDS: camp, campy, kitsch, gay culture, popular...
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Literary and film Kytice or Problems of film adaptation and attempt to find kitsch
Havlíková, Anna ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Mravcová, Marie (referee)
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to compare the two different medias, literature and film, and specifically Erben's and Brabec's Kytice, while detection of kitsch in the movie. In the first part of the bachelor thesis deals with the film adaptations of literary works, focusing on open and closed adaptation, as way as interpreting a literary text, as the original film, the semiotics of film and finally the narrator of film. On the literature as on the film this thesis is trying to look out narratological perspective. The thesis takes both media as a text types, which updats narrative. The second part is dedicated to the kitsch, and describes its etymology, history, and not least its general definition. The third part of this thesis interprets Erben's Kytice, continues with comparing the two different types of media, while is trying to describe the way of adapting literary writing in to the film and compares these two media, while is trying to find a notification of kitsch. Keywords Karel Jaromír Erben, František Antonín Brabec, Kytice, film adaptation, kitsch.
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Art, avant-garde and kitsch in works of Clement Greenberg and Matei Călinescu
Taltynová, Marie ; Kulka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Dadejík, Ondřej (referee)
Bachelor thesis Art, avant-garde and kitsch in works of Clement Greenberg and Matei Călinescu deals with kitsch in relation to avant-garde and to contemporary art, and to the visual arts in general. It is primarily based on the essay Avant-Garde and Kitsch by American critic Clement Greenberg and the essay Kitsch by Romanian literary scholar Matei Călinescu. The first part is devoted to outlining the concept of kitsch according to these two theorists, with an emphasis on the thinking about the origin and nature of kitsch. The second part deals with revising Greenberg's beliefs that condemn popular culture, official culture and academism for kitsch and highlights avant-garde as the only worthy manifestation of art of his time. On this basis, the work examines why avant-garde seemed like the pure opposite of kitsch in the thirties, and why to the contrary today we find that contemporary art is often influenced by kitsch.
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