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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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Music reviews as part of mass culture
Poštulková, Michaela ; Bystřický, Jiří (advisor) ; Švantner, Martin (referee)
The status of contemporary Czech music reviews (also the Czech cultural criticism) ties in with mass culture and trends of postmodern thinking supports. Subjective journalist genres type reviews and critics look like the relevant expert testing about artistic performance, their real aim is economic profitability and fixing a position in their discourse domain. Mass culture can not offer an alternative to itselfa nd that's the reason, why central dichotomy variation - scheme is applicable not only to its products (music CDs, theatrical performances, a new book at he art), but also on the way, which is about these products further talks . Subjective meta - review has a the specific positron in the mass media.
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Punk subculture in the Czech environment
Buociková, Eliška ; Hucková, Barbara (advisor) ; Šubrt, Daniel (referee)
Thesis deals with punk subculture involuntarily acting as innovative element of the commercial market. It addresses the question of the essence of punk subculture, and focuses on the question whether the penetration of punk elements into the commercial environment affect the essence of punk. Aim of the thesis is also to find out how punk elements in the environment of mass culture are perceived by young people outside the punk subculture. The theoretical part explains the basic concepts and contexts within a given topic. It also describes the process of punk elements penetration into market environment and its influence within the fashion and music industry. The practical part, which is based on the results of qualitative and quantitative research, respectively research probes, describes the state of the issue in the Czech Republic.
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Elite and Mass Culture in the Cinema of the Czech Republic
Vondráková, Tereza ; Hanzlík, Jan (advisor) ; Čížek, Tomáš (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the difference between elite and mass culture in cinema from theoretical and practical point of view. The first part of the thesis addresses the description of both types of culture (elite and mass) and it focuses also on the historic moments that are essential for that kind of division in cinema. The empirical part describes Czech cinema. It explains what types of movie theaters are associated with elite and mass culture in cinema and what types of programs, audience and ticket prices are connected with it. The last part of the thesis focuses on the survey of audience preferences.
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The aesthetic decoration of sanitary facilities
MATOUŠEK, Pavel
Artefacts of mass culture infiltrate with a lot of diverse ways into our everyday life, where they have different social, symbolic or aesthetic functions. The target of the bachelor thesis is to map the aesthetic decoration of sanitary facilities and to answer following questions: In which ways infiltrates mass culture into these areas and how are commodities transformed to the artefacts of mass culture? How is the taste of users reflected in the decoration of a particular sanitary facilities and how are primarily dominant meanings reshaped with subversive semiotic power of social actors? Which relation have inhabitants of households to the popular culture? Methodology of the thesis is based on the small terrain research (observation, questionnaires, interviews with respondents, photodocumentation of the aesthetic decoration of sanitary facilities). The tesis is based on the theories and concepts of John Fiske, Umberto Eco and Pierre Bourdieu.
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