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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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Visual Art in the Housing Estates of Brno (1945–1989)
Kořínková, Jana ; Bartlová, Milena (referee) ; Hrůša, Petr (referee) ; Chamonikolasová, Kaliopi (advisor)
With special attention being paid to the development in the city of Brno, the dissertation focuses on the issue of applying artworks in Czechoslovak architecture after World War II. The main research questions – Why were in Czechoslovakia after 1945 artworks again integrated in architecture and what strategies were applied in the case of the newly built housing estates in the city of Brno? – are answered in two successive sections. First, the institutional background for application of art in architecture in the light of the events in Brno (1945–1993) is examined; the closing part is devoted to three case studies that illustrate local development in the period of socialist realism, creative release of the1960s and political normalization. The aim is to highlight the complexity of the examined subject and refute a popularly handed down conviction that integration of artworks into architecture in the period of socialism was motivated exclusively by the communist propaganda, and to show that the attempts to create a synthesis of art and architecture were also based both on earlier theoretical considerations about the educational function of art and its effect on humans and the need to improve poor economic situation of artists after World War II.
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Activities of Czech Centre in Paris
NEJEDLÁ, Kristýna
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to describe activities of the Czech Centre in Paris. The first part is dealing with their activities, mission and total number of the Czech Centres in the world. Then, I focused on the Czech Centre in Paris where I described its history, staffing, everyday work and trainee´s content of the work. The second part is specifically illustrating cultural activities of the Czech Centre, such as visual arts, music, literature, film, theatre, design and fashion, education, humanities, architecture and science. In conclusion, I evaluate the importance and contribution of the activities to the Czech and French environment in the field of culture and the image of the Czech Culture, which is proffered to the French milieu.
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Aesthetics of Camp
NOVOTNÁ, Pavlína
This thesis deals with the phenomenon of camp and its manifestations in modern western culture. The aim of this thesis is to indentify the signifiant features typical for camp as an aesthetic stance and for camp as an object. Attention is paid to the relationship of the camp and kitsch, and their differences and similarities. The relationship of camp to the high and low art or dandyism is also examined. The main text used for this thesis is an essay "Notes on Camp" by Susan Sontag.
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Sound objects in art education at primary school
LUTOVSKÁ, Milada
This thesis describes questions of combination of recording and visual arts by means of sound objects creation. The theoretical part deals with the function of arts as a common sphere of musical and creative expression. In particular chapters there are described the essence of visual and auditory perception from a viewpoint of psychology and the interconnection of a creative and a music medium within the selected periods, whose solution are sound objects in visual arts. The last chapter of the theoretical part is about permeation of the music medium to the school subject named Art Education. The project part shows the practical outcome of the thesis- it presents methodically compiled file of creative activities connected with the creation of sound objects within art education at primary school.
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Motivation Towards the Visual Arts via Art Techniques in Free Time Pedagogy
TREJBALOVÁ, Martina
Motivation youth towards the visual arts via art techniques in free time pedagogy. The purpose of bachelor work was analyse by means of young people motivation to positive affinity to plastic art. Theoretic part put brain to explication basic concepts, which be related to work theme. The first chapters I explained bacis consepts, namely conception art, plastic art and aesthetics in human relation to mentioned values. In the next chapters I put mind to guestions of young people, guestions and importance of the free time. The last theme of theoretic part is motivation. Motivation in the concepts definition and motivation youth to visual art activities by means of today`s visual arts projectes. Practical part put mind to the plastic project ,,Colour sensation of music``. The purpose of the project is visual expession of subjective experience, which was induced by the auditory sensation of music. The project is specialised for young people. Now it`s harder motivate them to every activities with the visual activities. So I wanted to find one way to motivate young people to visual activity trough this project. Conclusion of bachelor work summarises knowledges and observations sequence of this visual project.
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Intermedia poetics (of landscape)
Jedličková, Alice
After surveying the current state of literary and cultural studies which may contribute to intermedia research, the author suggests a literature-centred intermedia poetics of landscape, involving inter-art concepts introduced by Mary Ann Caws, Tamar Yacobi and incentives for landscape observation as given by literary critics and art historians such as Malcolm Andrews and Michael Charlesworth. Particular aspects of the suggested poetics are illustrated by examples of analysis of Czech fiction (Karel Václav Rais, Alois Jirásek and Martin Fibiger).
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