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This Bachelor’s thesis examines the use of ancient bronze statues in the 2017 film Call me by your name by director Luca Guadagnino. Various scenes which feature ancient statues are examined individually using semiotic analysis. The scenes are examined individually, first described on a denotative level, then analyzed on a connotative level. The theoretical stand point is based on the studies of art works in film. Key theoretical concepts used are ”in between-ness” which is a state in which change in narrative is made possible through looking at art, and ”parallels”, a means of which to make art represent the characters in the film. The thesis finds the sculptures in Call me by your name to play a part in affecting the narrative of the film, mainly in regard to the love story between the two lead characters, two men named Elio and Oliver. The acts of looking, examining, and touching the statues in this film help the narrative turn in favor of the lead characters romantic relationship. The thesis argues that the nude bronze sculptures of men from ancient Greece are used in this film as signifiers of desire, timelessness and homoerotic lust.

Le travail présenté dans cette thèse s’inscrit dans le contexte des études transculturelles. Il a pour objectif d’étudier du point de vue anthropologique et artistique le sens culturel profond du croisement et de la transposition des identités humaines multiples et des objets sur le marché en prenant le marché artistique au bord de la Saône comme site principal de l’enquête de terrain, le marché à Barbizon comme site supplémentaire et les hommes et les objets présents sur ces deux marchés comme objets de recherche. Nous allons essayer de discuter des liens entre l’art et le marché, entre la création et la vente, entre l’achat et l’appréciation des œuvres artistiques, entre l’art et la vie, entre les particularités des œuvres et les expériences personnelles de leurs auteurs. L’originalité de notre travail, étude de cas anthropologique artistique à l’étranger, réside non seulement dans la définition de rôle et dans les angles de considération, mais aussi dans les objets et les méthodes de recherche, tous différents des recherches antérieures sur le marché de l’art du point de vue de l’histoire, des théories de l’art, de l’économie, de la sociologie et des recherches culturelles.Grâce à ces trois parties principales dans lesquelles nous montrerons et discuterons les documents de nos enquêtes de terrain, nous examinerons de nouveau les conceptions sur le marché et la valeur utilisées dans le domaine des sciences économiques dans la première partie, nous approfondirons le sens discuté dans cette thèse et nous conclurons par les dialogues entre différentes disciplines, notamment en ce qui concerne les recherches sur la valeur du point de vue économique et anthropologique. Traiter la valeur de l’art sous l'angle de l’anthropologie, c’est être sensible au sens culturel de la valeur de l’art qui a un lien étroit avec l’homme et chercher les différents sens de la valeur de l’art dans la vie réelle de l’homme dans le marché de l’art, terrain concret des enquêtes de ce thème. / From the point of view of Anthropology of art, based on the background of transcultural study, taking the Art market by the riverside of Saône in Lyon as the main researching field and the Barbizon village of painters near Paris as the secondery one, both of which in France, this dissertation aimes to topic on art, artists and art works, and the cultural sense caused by the changement of identity of people and objects in the art market in different context. It discusses the art market, the creation and marketing of art, the aesthetics and consumption of art, art and life, the connection between the characteristics of art work and the artist’s personal life, experience and social relationships. As an oversea case study of Anthropology of art, this research is innovative compared with the former researches on art market by art history, art theory, economics, sociology, anthropology and cultural study, either from the role played by the author and the perspective of the observation, or from the object and method of the research.The content of the dissertation is mainly composed by “Value”, “Life” and “Imagination”. In the part of “Value”, it tries to discover the different meaning of “Value” in modern society, in the art market, in the concrete fieldwork of this research than of in traditional study of economics. It finally returns the discussion of “Value” to the perspective of anthropology.In the part of “Life”, through the interviews of the artists and consummers in the art market, by recording their views on art, art works and art market, their understanding of life, it searches for the connections between the characteristics of art and the artist’s personal life, experience and social relationships, including their opinons of the aesthetic, consumption and collection of the art works.In the part of “Imagination”, with the concern of the anthropological and transcultural study in theories on Other, immagination and the Society of the Spectacle it focuses on the imagination from “Other”――the people in the market, who is the object of this research, including their recognition of their own art and culture, their immaginary of an oriental world with China in it, their opinions on different trends of art and the standard of the definition and so on.After the presentation, analysis and discussion of the fieldwork in the former 3 main chapters, responding to the first part, which refers a lot to the definition and analysis of market and value, it develops the main sense of the whole essay and makes further reflection in the last part, especially sums up the connection and difference between the researches of both economics and anthropology on the topic of value, which results a conversation between the two subjects.

(in English) This thesis called Grave, Tombstone, Graveyard. The Range of Motifs of the Czech Painting of the 19th Century is based on the analysis of paintings, drawings and graphics made by Czech authors throughout the 19th century. Artists worked with funeral motifs in different ways and these will be presented in different case studies. Some painters were fascinated by these subjects and they turned their attention to them systematically and repeatedly throughout their career. Other artists worked with funeral motifs rarely, although significantly. Artists integrated motifs of graves, monuments and cemeteries to their pieces of art for different purposes; this was connected with the interest of Romanticism in aesthetic anomalies and mystery, with their personal experience and feelings. Artists were also interested in genre scenes that were situated in cemeteries. Funeral motifs can be found in illustrated journals as well. Their aim was to document the specific place and as to symbolically express the finality of the life. The pieces of art will be presented in the context of the burial rites and literature of the 19th century. This phenomenon was also reflected by foreign artists, some of them will be also mentioned in the thesis as an analogy to the Czech works.

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This essay examines the content in the Artworks: the arts & business journal with the aim to find out what economic models and business ideas are presented to be applied by the artists and the artworld. The method being used is a material context analysis, together with Marxist capitalist theories, with ‘speculation as a mode of production’ according to Marina Vishmidt, as a philosophical analysis tool. The results show that the opinions and suggestions that appear in the material correlates with the political and economic development of the modern western society: arts should work more closely with the business, and also it should be a business itself. Internet and technology appear as a main field of opportunities suggested for the artworld in order to increase their businesses and autonomy. The results of the analysis also show ‘speculation as a mode of production’ in action and explains how art and creative work can be measured and used in a business plan. / Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning  Uppsatsen undersöker innehållet i tidskriften Artworks: the arts & business journal, för att se vilka förslag och lösningar som där i föreslås som ekonomiska modeller för konst och konstvärlden. Metoden som använts till undersökningen är en materialistisk kontextanalys, med teori där spekulation som produktionssätt med utgångspunkt i marxistisk teori om kapitalism har använts enligt Marina Vishmidt. Resultaten av undersökningen visar att aktörerna i materialet föreslår att konst och konstvärlden samarbetar mer med vinstdrivande företag, samt att de själva mer bör agera som företag. Resultaten sammanfaller med den för tiden aktuella diskursen om ”samhällets ekonomisering” vilket innebär att tidigare autonoma fält som konstens fält nu underordnats det ekonomiska fältet. Internet och teknologi framträder i undersökningen som en arena eller marknadsplats av möjligheter där de kreativa aktörerna kan förverkliga sitt skapande och nå ut till kunderna direkt utan att behöva vara beroende av andra parter. Uppsatsens resultat visar också på hur Vishmidts teori om spekulation som produktionssätt fungerar när konst och konstnärligt arbete ska mätas och användas i en affärsplan.

The teoretical part of the thesis provides a discussion on the creative work with wood and focuses on wood as a traditional material, which plays a fundamental role not only in the lives of humans, but also in the visual arts culture. This part further discusses the application of this topic in the art and design education with special reference to the relevant educational curricular documentation, methodology of art education through projects and the cross-curriculum relation with eviromental education. The practical part of the thesis was realised in the 2nd class of the Komensky primary school in the town Dačice, the Czech Republic. This part introduces a creative project centred on the topic of wood while discussing its applicability for the art and design education at the lower primary schools. The project consists of the seven creative lessons as a part of the regular art education, which are duly elaborated upon in the practical part.

Brno Lesna is ranked among the most highly regarded housing estates in Czechoslovakia ever since it was built in the 1960s. Mainly due to its ideal location at southern slopes around natural ravine and timeless urban design. This settlement at the time also constituted the most perfect realization of the current method of construction in our country. It was fully functional and completely finished even before first residents moved in. However, cultivated expression of housing architecture was recently severely affected by inappropriate revitalization. Change of ownership after the events of November 1989 also opened the way for development companies desiring to open spaces to build new apartment buildings. Original inhabitants, though, fight against it and seek for protection of whole settlement as heritage.

The dissertation studies the influence of the viewer’s gender normativity on the perception and interpretation of artworks. Based on the sociological research, the author analyses perception channels and evaluation criteria used by Ekaterinburg expert community, while elucidating the experts’ attitudes towards normative boundaries and gender aspects reflected in the works of contemporary professional art. / Диссертация посвящена исследованию влияния гендерной нормативности зрителя на восприятие и оценку им произведений искусства. На материале социсследования анализируются каналы восприятия и критерии оценивания произведений искусства экспертным сообществом г. Екатеринбурга, раскрывается отношение экспертов к нормативным границам и гендерным аспектам в произведениях современного профессионального искусства.