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Martin McDonagh: The Pillowman
Kuchařová, Mariana ; TEMPÍR, Nikola (advisor) ; GLOGR, Karel (referee)
In the second half of the twentieth century, the idea begins to emerge that modern times are overcome and postmodernism begins to form. This idea gradually expanded into architecture, literature, film and fine arts. We can find recurring principles when examining individual artistic categories. This diploma thesis deals with the search and naming of some of these postmodern principles and examines their potential use in stage design.
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Changing perceptions of landscape; work of Miloš Šejn's Conceptual art studio in years 1990 - 2000
Hrnčířová, Markéta ; Klimešová, Marie (advisor) ; Rakušanová, Marie (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on the conceptual expressions, that reflect the landscape. This thesis is also trying to imply the possible genesis of these artistic approaches. After the general definitions of terms and introduction, the thesis examines the various topics, which was related to the landscape and it's anti-mimetic visual representation since the late sixties. Another part of the work focuses on Milos Šejn, an artist with a very specific, physical relationship to nature and at the same time a former head of The Studio of Conceptual art of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, where many of his students were somehow related to nature. I chose four artists, who passed on Šejn's studio and on the basis of their work and available documents, I will try to show, how this new generation have reflected the landscape. If they were inspired by czech artists or by foreign examples, that were not available in the Czech Republic for a long time.
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Postmodern Czech Performances in Theory and in Practice
Etlíková, Barbora ; CÍSAŘ, Jan (advisor) ; VEDRAL, Jan (referee)
The thesis deals with the way of using the term postmodernism by the Czech-language theatre critique. In the first part I decided to discuss the thesis' subject in the context of other languages' schools of thought. I identified two main possible ways by which philosophers from abroad define the term "postmodernism" in its general meaning. In the first case (e.g. Charles Jencks) I on one hand found out that the term defined as postmodernism can be easily applied considering art -and therefore the theatre as well- but on the other hand I also found that the term itself merge with the meaning of modernism. In the second case (e.g. Jacques Derrida) I came to a conclusion that even though the definition of postmodernism does not merge with definition of modernism, it can be applied only with great difficulties in the cases of theatre and of fine art. Subsequently, I tried to illustrate the way the three approaches manifested themselves into the Czech-language discussion about postmodernism.
In the following parts of the thesis I adhered to the theatrical issues more strictly. On the basis of the analyses of two so-called postmodern theatre performances made a ground for the theoretical approach to the means of expression considered as postmodern. (The terminology I used is the one deriving from the work of Otakar Zich and from the Czech structuralism.) In the conclusion of the theatre-theoretic part of my thesis I took the view that the means of expression used in the so-called postmodern theatre productions do not differ in their very nature from the modern ones; that there are different requirements of viewer's reception in the postmodern performaces though. In the very end of my work I considered the problems that appear with the direct transfer of Jacques Derrida's philosophy to the theatre.
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Independent puppet theatre after 1989
Vašíček, Jakub ; BEČKA, Marek (advisor) ; MAKONJ, Karel (referee)
The subject of this thesis is the reflection on independent puppet theatre
for adults after the year 1989. The phenomena of the "rise" of
independent groups, the roots of this phenomena and its specifics are
described. I am also investigating the performances - within the limits of
the aforementioned theatrical context - which touched and inspired me
the most. The second part consist of a reflection on my own theatrical
work, where I investigate the expression of the influences from the first
part.
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The Czech Postmodern Theatre and Works of Jiří Havelka
Kubák, Ivo Kristián ; MAKONJ, Karel (advisor) ; CÍSAŘ, Jan (referee)
The thesis is in its first part focused to describe the current generation of directors, who started official creative careers after 1989. It locates three basic lines of staging procedures and in the second part aims on five directors of this generation, which currently teaches in the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre of The Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague: Petra Tejnorová, Jiří Adámek, Martin Kukučka, Lukáš Trpišovský a Jiří Havelka. The latter is devoted to detail in the third part, which is based on available ctitic reflections of Havelka's work and tries to figure out how is this work received by critics and the public. Attachment contains complete list of Havelka scenical works.
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