Leo Ornstein's most significant piano oeuvre, the Seventeen Waltzes, stand out as a unique example of a pianism as a foundation for the composer's musical thoughts. The purpose of this document is to provide musical and technical suggestions based on Ornstein's pianistic patterns, which will help pianists understand the composer's complex writing and form a coherent interpretation. The guide covers the main avant-garde musical devices used by Ornstein such as tone clusters, polymeter, and polyrhythm. A comparison process within the collection will help performers to address Ornstein's unmarked waltzes by underlining the composer's similar ideas and traits.

Forman, D .: Curious World. Possibilities of applicatiom of the theme in pedagogic practise. [Diploma thesis] Prague 2015 - Charles University, Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts, 79 p. (Attachments 7 artistic realizations - oil paintings small and medium size) The thesis is based on a comprehensive comparsion of major interpretation avant-garde art and the modernist thinking, which determined crucially interpretation of the most important events in the art history of 20th century. This work brings together three major confrontations looks at the intentions of selected representatives of avant-garde art and focuses on problematic moment of "interruption" the progression of the avant-garde by socialist realism. Three positions are views of art theorists Clement Greenberg, Theodor Adorno and Boris Groys. Didactic part of this thesis is realized by art education series, which is inspidated by this topic. It focuses on understanding the most basic principles of geometric abstraction, constructivism and abstract expressionism by students. The artwork is also inspired by this topic, it contains the collection of oil paintings. Keywords: avant-garde, kitsch, socialist realism, interpretation of art, art discourse, comparsion, Greenberg, Groys, Adorno

In the first half of the twentieth century, sporadic attempts of avant-garde composers to include sounds other than pitch in musical composition paved the way for the composers in the second half to embrace the sound of all types in their creative works. The development of technology since the mid-past century has facilitated composers' inclusive use of sound. The recent achievements in electronics and computers have led to cost-effective tools for today's composers to explore new possibilities in sound design and manipulation. Gradual for tenor saxophone and fixed electronics is primarily concerned with noise. Among the infinite possibilities of noise types, metallic sounds significantly contribute to the composition. The title of the piece refers to the compositional process in which the music progressively unfolds itself from the beginning to the end. The methods and strategies used to present the content give rise to a form I call accretion, described as an organic process by which the musical materials grow. Within the process, while established materials are interacting, combining, and forming layers, new materials may be incorporated and take part in the process. Throughout the composition, the interaction between sounds with common properties guides the music toward interactive unity, while the interplay between sounds with different characteristics forms a dialectical communication. The constant push-and-pull between the two states creates a restless tension throughout the composition. In the current version of Gradual, the audio signals from both saxophone and fixed electronics are transmitted to the same speakers, which helps coalesce acoustic and electronic sounds. The future prospect of the piece can involve real-time audio signal processing to manipulate the sound of saxophone. Adding the above feature to the current version will promote the unification of the two media into a single whole.

Dissertation "Myths of the Czech Music Alternative in the 1980s" presents an anthropological view of the phenomenon of a parallel culture in a limiting situation. On the basis of biographical narratives, additional interviews and data gained from other types of sources, "myths" are constructed for seven major figures of the Czech alternative scene. This is an insider's ethnomusicological interpretation, based on Mircea Eliade's and Bronislaw Malinowski's concepts of myth as recurrent and exemplary models of behavior. The described personalities, Jazz Section (Prometheus), Miroslav Wanek ("hero's journey") Karel Babuljak ("search for paradise lost"), Pavel Zajíček (Odysseus), Mikoláš Chadima ("Rebel"), Oldřich Janota (Hermes), and Marka Míková (Psyche), represent some of the main trends in creative processes of the Czech music alternative scene with myth being used as a metaphor. The metaphor is understood here in the terms of Timothy Rice, i.e. as an organization principle of our thinking, as well as an illuminating image.

The doctoral thesis is concerned diachronically with the term "visual poetry". The focus is on its progress during the period after the Second World War in the context of the extensively advanced movement, as substantially defined in international expert discussion. The use of the term, which is supported by the arguments of many theoreticians and artists of the period, is studied in the thesis from the viewpoint of the inspirational sources and specific contacts between art and literature. The focus is on the specific positions and strategies of visual perception. Visual poetry is studied - considering the different contexts of the European avant-garde movements and through the analysis of contemporaneous theories which defined three main lines of thought - as an incoherent art stream manifesting itself in the eclectic use of artistic media. In conclusion, the thesis looks at the project of Czech author poetics typology which grew from purely Czech examples based on formal language of the visual poetry works. The thesis seeks to point out the original aspects of the internal discussion of visual poetry, and to place it in the international context.

in English This work focuses on the Czech afterwar avant-garde and its fiction in the wider European context. The main goal of our writing was diversifying literary historical field by integrating genre of short story and its authors into the interpretive frame of the prepoetistic avant-garde. We could intrude a canonic picture of the Czech avant-garde by enriching the interpretive frame of the new genre (short story) and new, often hardly known or forgotten, writers. Last but not least by doing so we were able to questioned and problematized basic oppositions such as expressionism × avant-garde, and mainly individualism × collectivism. We introduce the principal opposition individualism × collectivism, which in our opinion, organizes afterwar literary discourse, as a main connecting line between Czech avant-garde art and European art (collective and one of its manifestation - crowd, as one of the main themes of modernism and avant-garde). We interpretate beyond this scope the fictions of French unanimism as the main inspiration of the Czech afterwar avan-garde and its (collective) fiction as well.

This thesis studies the impact of the work of Elena Jordi during the first Spanish avant-garde period (1890-1920) and the relationship between the myth of Thaïs and her homonymous film released in 1918. Here I track the trajectory of her career from its beginnings to culmination, when she directed Thaïs while leading an innovative vaudeville theatre company. The first chapter discusses the activity of Jordi as a Catalan actress, and woman entrepreneur in vaudeville. It analyzes the effect of the introduction of foreign vaudevilles on the reception of her work by critics through the theorization of Herni Gidel´s on vaudeville as genre. The second chapter reviews the cinematographic work of Jordi and situates it within the context of Catalan cinema´s early development as Spain´s first woman film director. After reflecting about the possible cultural influences that informed Jordi’s Thaïs, I explore the literary origins of the Legend of the Saint, an hagiography of Greek origins, and review relevant literary, operatic, and cinematic productions that incorporated this myth during the early Spanish avant-garde period. My conclusion highlights the original and similar features of Elena Jordi and Thaïs in their respective fields and different manifestations, simultaneously placing Jordi’s Thaïs in dialogue with the myth´s resurrection and its impact on the avant-garde feminist milieu. This demonstrates the formative influence of both Jordi as a pioneering artist and the enduring cultural influence of the myth of Thais on twentieth-century cultural production.

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Peu connus de l'histoire de l'art, les rapports entre l'art et la mode se manifestent au moment où prennent forme les avant-gardes historiques. Parmi les liens les plus marquants : le Fauvisme (Paul Poiret et Raoul Dufy), le Bauhaus (Chanel), le Simultanéisme (Sonia Delaunay), le Futurisme italien, le Construstivisme russe, le Surréalisme et le Pop Art (Andy Warhol). Après ces nombreuses collaborations innovatrices, les artistes et créateurs de mode tendent dorénavant à favoriser des approches multidimensionnelles et interdisciplinaires, dont le prolongement se reconnaît dans la mode «post-moderne». Guy Scarpetta, Achille Bonito-Oliva, Germano Celant, Gilles Lipovetsky, etc, poursuivent cette réflexion théorique. Chez Jean Paul Gaultier, cette mode plurielle et éclectique s'exprime à travers une revision burlesque de la tradition vestimentaire. / Montréal Trigonix inc. 2018

Jia Zhang-ke est un cinéaste chinois. Il est généralement considéré comme une figure de la Sixième génération. De son premier court-métrage Xiao Shan Going Home (1995) jusqu’à I Wish I Knew, de son premier films trilogie Xiao Wu, artisan pickpocket (1997), Platform (2000), Plaisirs Inconnus (2002) qui est considéré comme des films underground, à la sortie en Chine de Still Life en face du film blockbuster La cité interdite de Zhang Yi-mou, Jia Zhang-ke reste fidèle à son attitude de cinéaste de films d’auteur. Il ne change jamais. Il est un authentique paradigme de la société chinoise. Il est comme un écrivain qui enregistre la mutation de la société chinoise des années 1980 et 1990 jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Il cherche la vérité, avec sincérité, soucieux de ne jamais simplifier la réalité, dans le respect de l’homme et de la complexité de sa vie quotidienne. Ce que je crois avoir bien dégagé dans ma thèse, c’est la fertilité des oppositions symétriques : arrière-garde et avant-garde, ancien et nouveau, tradition et modernité, culture réservée à une certaine élite et culture de masse. Parce que Jia Zhang-ke est toujours un entre-deux : Oriental et Occidental, procédure de fiction et procédure documentaire. / Jia Zhang-ke is a Chinese film director. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the Sixth Generation mouvement of Chinese cinema. From his first short Xiao Shan Going Home (1995) to the last film I Wish I Knew (2010), from his early films trilogy Xiao Wu (1997), Platform (2000), Unknown Pleasures (2002), which are considered underground film, to the film Still Life in front of the blockbuster film Curse of the Golden Flower by Zhang Yi-mou, Jia Zhang-ke remains faithful to his attitude film d'auteur. He never changes. He is a true paradigm of Chinese society. He is as a writer who records the transformation of Chinese society in the 1980s and 1990s until today. He seeks the truth with sincerity, careful, not to simplify the reality, within the respect of man and the complexity of everyday life. What I think I have identified in my work, is the fertility oppositions symmetrical: avant garde and rear garde, old and new, traditional and modernity, cultural elite and mass culture. Because Jia Zhang-ke is always an in-between: Oriental and Occidental, process documentary and fiction process. / 贾樟柯是一位中国导演.他被公认为是第六代电影导演的代表人物.从他的第一部短片小山回家,（1995年），直到海上传奇（2010年），从他的第一个故乡三部曲，小武（1997年），站台（2000年），任逍遥（2002）, 他的地下电影时期，到三峡好人, 和张艺谋的大制作满城尽带黄金甲同日公映,贾樟柯始终保持他作者导演的态度。他从来没有改变. 他是一个真正的中国社会的范式。他像是一个作家，记录了中国社会在20世纪80年代和90年代直到今天的社会转型。他用真诚寻求真理，小心的从来不简化现实, 尊重人和日常生活的复杂性。在我的论文中,我坚持用对比：后卫和先锋，旧的和新的，传统与现代，精英文化和大众文化。因为贾樟柯总是跨界：东方和西方，剧情