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Ztohoven
PADRTOVÁ, Kristýna
The main theme of my bachelor's thesis is an art group Ztohoven. The goal is to describe characteristics of their work and chart completely all their projects from first one in 2003 till the progress of the last one in spring 2017. At the same time I tried to chart briefly art-historical development of action art, which Ztohoven's work comes from. I also focused on similar Czech art groups, to compare their works to Ztohoven's activity at the thesis conclusion.
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The Positive Revolt
Brinda, Antonín ; PILÁTOVÁ, Jana (advisor) ; ADÁMEK, Jiří (referee)
In the first place, the aim of this bachelor work is to reflect The Positive Revolt - author's bachelor artwork. We also aim to explore the research and artistic realizations which lead to its making. We also introduce the Cibulení art project and explain the reasons why the project has failed. The descriptive approach is backed by ideas of theoreticians from different walks of the theory of Art such as Hakim Bey, David Graeber, Guy Debord, Louis Pierre Althusser, Tomáš Kulka and others.
In its last part the work introduces two Czech so-called political art groups (Pode Bal and Rafani) and considers possible ways to understand the term political art notably in its relationship with activism.
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Motivation, strategies and goals of culture jamming in czech surroundings
Benešová, Zuzana ; Reifová, Irena (advisor) ; Soukup, Martin (referee)
The phenomenon of culture jamming is not so well known in the Czech Republic. So I decided to focus on defining this term, which is sometimes translated as cultural sabotage. At the beginning of this dissertation work, I try to introduce important theories that are related to the central concept. I also focus on how culture jamming most often express and what forms are most common. In the part of examples of culture jamming in the world, I try to describe the important foreign culture jamming's groups, including demonstrations of their actions and performances. In the same way I map the Czech culture jamming groups. For a better illustration and approximation of the concept, the whole of this theoretical part is supplemented with a picture attachment. Part of the dissertation work is also a research part, which focuses on the mapping of culture jamming in the Czech Republic. Above all, I try to find out what are the motivations, speeches and goals of Czech cultural saboteurs.
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Social Themes in Projects of Contemporary Czech Conceptual and Action Art (from the Late 1980s to the present Day)
Váchová, Lucie ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Morganová, Pavlína (referee) ; Štefková, Zuzana (referee)
The dissertation thesis gives a real picture of Czech artistic works from late 1980s to the present day that use the language of Conceptual and Action art for a reflection of current problems in our society. The study is to encompass socially-oriented art or tendencies that want to communicate with the inartistic context and its focus is on the social-political aspect of contemporary art. The first part of the text is focused on basic concepts, moreover, it describes the most important exhibitions, theoretical contexts or considerations associated with the concepts of political or engaged art and it includes a brief reference to examples of older socially oriented art of the 20th century. The thesis strives to give a picture of the main themes through which artists reflect on humanity within a current societal system with its various old or new phenomena. The topics and the particular relevant artworks are described in four main chapters that should reveal the working methods or the development of the artists approach or strategies of artistic groups that have simultaneously reflected changes in the Czech art scene for the past 25 years. The prime motives are classical or newborn topics like reflection on motherhood, transformation of the present-day family, attitudes to the phenomenon of age,...
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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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Contemporary political art as a reflection of the time
Kráľová, Ľuboslava ; Rataj, Jan (advisor) ; Houda, Přemysl (referee)
The master thesis Contemporary political art as a reflection of the time seeks to define the relationship of art and politics. The base is built around the statement of Boris Groys where he claims that every art is in a way political, as it accrues from a specific and given socio-political situation. The thesis then looks at the given art through the lens of a subcategory -- contemporary activist art. In terms of social history of art, the artistic expressions are seen as the counterpart to the forms of politicized art of futurism, German national socialism and Soviet socialist realism. The goal of the thesis was to understand the work of contemporary Czech and Slovak visual artists as a conscience of the time. First of all so in the form of civic responsibility for events in their own country that they voluntarily accepted. That is reflected in the visualized topics that provoke and shock the public. The thesis concludes by stating that contemporary political art is nonconformist, therefore determining the problems in today's society.
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Political and engage art
MACHOVÁ, Marie
Subject of my diploma work is contemporary politic and engage art within the Czech context. The course of study is concentrated on the change of political art since 1918 to this day. Central part and the root of the trouble is the term political art and its transformation during the last ten years, it means since 1998 to 2008. The work is divided into eight chapters, of which meant to describe the con-temporary situation and the position of political art in the Czech context and answer on the question, if the political art are works, which are directly connected with politi-cal themes and try to reveal, why authors refuse the inclusion into this category.
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