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Light as an image. Light in Czech fine art from the 1940s to the present days
MICHALINOVÁ, Denisa
The subject of this master thesis is the phenomenon of light as a specific artistic medium. The main focus will be put on issues of non-narrative light installations, the dichotomy of picture/image and light (projected light, projected picture/image), light and space (changes in perception due to light intervention) and their synthesis, the symbolism of light and its transformations. The aim is to describe the context of the inclinations towards light as an artistic medium in the work of selected artists and to explain the links of this shift towards new forms of fine art especially after 1989. The argumentations will be based on the works of key personalities of the Czech and foreign art scene, namely the work of Zdeněk Pešánek (1896-1965), Dan Flavin (1933-1996), James Turrell (*1943) and others. The text will map related manifestations and tendencies in contemporary Czech art through a critical naming of the methods and procedures of light creation by these artists.

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