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New media and czech art institutions in the 1990s
Pogranová, Anna ; Šmejkalová, Jiřina (advisor) ; Hladík, Radim (referee)
The thesis investigates the phenomenon of new media in Czech art institutions in the 1990s. This work attempts to show how this difficult-to-define concept operated in this particular historically and geographically situated language game (using a concept developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein). The new media at the time were associated with vision of emancipation from ideologically burdened traditional media and the establishment of a new democratic society based on the Western type. The thesis is based on three case studies in which new media art penetrated first into the educational institution, and later it got through to a private institution with foreign support for exhibition programmes and for the general public, and finally in the late 90s new media art reached also a governmental organization. It is the foundation of New Media Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, the Orbis Fictus exhibition organized by the Soros Centre for Contemporary Art, and the formation of the department of intermedia and new media at the National Gallery in Prague. Despite the fact that new media should be linked with the restoration of the country and society in the spirit of the Western model and its new vision, interactivity, use of new technologies and opposition to the traditional media had the media...
Perception of art in czech culture at the turn of the 19. and 20. century
Pogranová, Anna ; Půtová, Barbora (advisor) ; Hoftichová, Petra (referee)
This thesis deals with visual art and its reflection in Czech culture at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. It describes the emergence of modern art and how it responded to the public and critics. The situation in the Czech countries is compared with the perception of art in France, in the U. S. and in Japan. Biographies of Czech artists who lived at the time - Max Švabinský and Alphonse Mucha, were used as the case studies. Finally, the work concerns with the perception of art from perspective of theory. The work aims to contribute to the phenomenon of perception of art in Czech culture and society in a particular socio-cultural context.

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