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Unofficial Public Art In Czech Republic
Turner, Vladimír ; Pospiszyl, Tomáš (advisor) ; Fabuš, Pavol (referee)
This essay investigates art in public space created outside of official structures. Environment of its creation, including authors' intentions, nature of individual techniques and its social and cultural impact and media image are described and assessed in this work.
The essay opens with definition of the public space based upon socially critical theories in terms of which I, then, attempt to describe Czech contemporary society. Next, it gives a historical overview of artistic activities on the border of the law which aimed to influence the public at large. Chronologically, it highlights selected works by, for instance, Vladimír Boudník and action artists such as Milan Knížák until the end of 1980's. The paper's main focus, however, is contemporary Public art. Illegal public art is thereby defined including all its sub-categories.
With reference to individual significant works of art I try to illustrate various attributes of today's engaged art. I investigate multiple attempts of Czech artists to promote their works as socially significant phenomena, i.e. to join art and life together. I am deeply intrigued with how art is perceived by large and open public. My main focus is art within urban environment, even though public space may be more healthy on its outside. I intentionally omit the platform which is currently the most liberal niche of free communication and artistic work, the internet.
Field of interest of this paper may be defined within the boundaries of these terms: image of illegal street art in different public media, social critique, art outside galleries and official structures, social impact of art, engaged art, subversion, streetart and life in the city.
In this work I try to find the answer to the question, whether Czech public space (if there is any) is used freely as a platform for independent art.
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Literary, cultural and historical influences in the works and beliefs of Oscar Wilde
Lorenzů, Alex ; Beran, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Quinn, Justin (referee)
The thesis deals with the cultural and literary influences that can be traced in the works of Oscar Wilde. Its aim is to map out and elucidate some of the important motifs of the author's work and aesthetics in their own context as well as in the wider cultural-historical one. The methods used will be comparison of relevant materials, analysis of certain expressions typical of the author with their connotations, explaining the intertextual allusions in Wilde's work, and historical sources. The requisite attention will also be paid to Wilde as a representative of a subversive element of Victorian society and how this relates to his sexuality; that is to say, exploring the issue of the tabooing of non-heterosexuality, which may have been a decisive factor in Wilde's criticism of the conventions of his era and to his search of positive role-models in the ancient tradition both for his art and for his personal philosophy. Keywords Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, fin-de-siecle, homosexuality, intertextuality, l'art pour l'art, LGBTQ*, Marius the Epicurean, metatextuality, non-heterosexuality, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Victorian era, Walter Pater.
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