Contrary to Westerners' long-maintained denial of fashion in Chinese dress, recent scholarship has provided convincing textual evidence of fashion in early modern China. Research into this fashion commentary has complicated our understanding of Chinese consumption history, yet we still know little about fashion design, production, or dissemination. By prioritising the textual over the visual or material, this history remains confined to the written source, rather than asking what objects might tell us of Qing fashions. Though many fashionable styles of dress survive in Western museums, these are rarely considered evidence of the Chinese fashion system. Instead museum scholarship remains influenced by twentieth-century interpretations of Chinese dress as art; dominated by dragon robes and auspicious symbols, oriented around the trope of the genteel Chinese seamstress. Within this art historical account, nineteenth-century women's dress has been characterized by decay and viewed with disdain. This thesis questions these assumptions through the study of a group of late Qing women's jackets featuring embroidered narrative scenes, arguing that in this style - regulated by market desires rather than imperial edict - fashion formed at the intersection of commerce and culture. Contrary to the prevailing production model in which the secluded gentlewoman embroidered her entire wardrobe, I position the jackets within the mid-Qing commercialization of handicrafts that created networks of urban guilds, commercial workshops and sub-contracted female workers. By drawing the contours of Suzhou's commercial networks - a region renowned for its embroidery - I demonstrate how popular culture permeated the late Qing fashion system, and explicate the appearance and conceptualization of the embroidered scenes through contemporary prints and performance. My exploration of how dramatic narrative was represented in female dress culture highlights embroidery's significance as a tool to reflect upon contemporary culture, a finding I support by recourse to representations of embroidery as act and object in Suzhou's vernacular ballads and dramas. Thus, these little-studied jackets not only evidence how fashionable dress articulated women's relationship with popular culture, but also how embroidery expressed contemporary concerns, allowing a re-appraisal of women's role as cultural consumers and producers.

The thesis provides an analysis of the First Czechoslovak Republic in Simon Mawer's novel The Glass Room. The first part of the thesis concentrates on Mawer's life, the beginnings of his writing career, his interest in the Czech Republic and the Villa Tugendhat which inspired him in writing the novel and also on the work's receptions. The second part focuses on history of the First Czechoslovak Republic and on an analysis of this era in Mawer's novel. It deals with Czechoslovak political, social and economic situation, Czechoslovak cultural life and art, minorities issue and growing radicalism of 1930's in The Glass Room and compares and contrasts it with the real Czechoslovakia.

The study deals with the creation of gallery educational programs based on cooperation with artists and curators. The text is divided into two parts. In the theoretical part we try to define theoretical discursive field of art, galleries and gallery education. In the practical part we design gallery educational programs in cooperation with the artists and verify them with the children's group. KEYWORDS gallery education, discourse, visual culture, art work, contemporary art

Diploma thesis "Launch of the public-service culture channel: Broadcast analysis of ČT art until the year 2014" describes the origin and development of the channel ČT art, including an analysis of how it influenced the transformation of ČT2. This thesis, therefore, includes the programme composition of both channels monitoring the period from autumn 2013 to autumn 2014, as well as the programme composition of ČT2 from autumn 2012. This allows us to evaluate how ČT2 attended to cultural broadcasting before the launch of the new and thematically specialized channel ČT art. Moreover, the thesis tries to point out the trends taking place in television broadcasting such as digitalization, fragmentation of TV audiences and media convergence. These trends are illustrated by using specific examples from the Czech Television, as well as the theoretical foundation. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses on describing public-service media, services they provide and their roles in fulfilling the cultural needs of society. In addition, it also draws attention to examples of culturally oriented channels within Europe. The results of the analysis of programme schemes of both channels are complemented by findings from interviews with the leading employees of the Czech Television, which were not aimed to focus...

The aim of this study is to explorehow the Alevi BektaSi identity is constructed through the memorial ceremonies of Haci BektaS veli on collective and individual level by different actors from the state agents to the Alevi BektaSis who participate in the ceremonies.

This thesis examines the new theatrical form of cyberformance (live performance by remote players using internet technologies) and contextualises it within the broader fields of networked performance, digital performance and theatre. Poststructuralist theories that contest the binary distinction between reality and representation provide the analytical foundation for the thesis. A critical reflexive methodological approach is undertaken in order to highlight three themes. First, the essential qualities and criteria of cyberformance are identified, and illustrated with examples from the early 1990s to the present day. Second, two cyberformance groups – the Plaintext Players and Avatar Body Collision – and UpStage, a purpose-built application for cyberformance, are examined in more detailed case studies. Third, the specifics of the cyberformance audience are explored and commonalities are identified between theatre and online culture. In conclusion, this thesis suggests that theatre and the internet have much to offer each other in this current global state of transition, and that cyberformance offers one means by which to facilitate the incorporation of new technologies into our lives.

Thesis (Master of Military Studies)-Marine Corps Command and Staff College, 2008. / Title from title page of PDF document (viewed on: Jan 11, 2010). Includes bibliographical references.

This brochure seeks to give you an insight into Saxony’s rich cultural landscape, and showcases Saxony as a Land of Culture by taking you on a journey to explore its cultural treasures, traditions and artists. Redaktionsschluss: 31.10.2017

The diploma thesis entitled "Media Image of Czech fine arts in Události v kultuře on ČT Art" covers the theme of Czech fine arts and its media image within the cultural and news program Události v kultuře on ČT Art. The aim of the work is to map the media image of Czech fine arts in such cultural-news program, which is produced on a daily basis by Czech public television. For such an analysis, the method of combined quantitative and qualitative content analysis is used, which examines individual reports from a given programme throughout the year 2019. The thesis wants to answer in what form, how and in what frequency was Czech fine arts represented in Události v kultuře in 2019. The aim is to answer which artists were represented in the programme the most, which institutions or topics had the greatest representation in the news program and what are the properties of a news topic to be able to get into the cultural-news program on national public television at all. The theoretical part of the thesis firstly outlines the theoretical framework of the topic, which is general description of a television as a medium and then, based on the literature, the concept of media image, the concept of public law and news and its values, are described. Subsequently, the background of the researched subject is...

Résumé Michael Osvald Thun's art commissions - inseparable part of a baroque aristocrat's image in the second half of the 17th century The dissertation deals with the art commissions of wealthy count Michael Osvald Thun who represents one of key builders in Bohemia in the second half of the 17th century. Beside buildings, an emphasis is also placed on other categories of art commissions, for example collections of sculptures and paintings. In the introduction, I define a terminology and summarize an existing research in the field of aristocrat art commissions. The next part analyses used sources, primary and secondary, dealing with history of the house of Thun, its financial standing, and person of Michael Osvald Thun. The fourth part is dedicated directly to Michael Osvald Thun, where I describe his family situation, upbringing, education process and adulthood. He was raised with respect to family values, public duty and administration of the family property that was a prerequisite for art commissions. The fifth part compares Thun's art commissions with art commissions of his siblings. Some of them hold significant bishop and archbishop posts. This helps up uncover ties and positional interactions between different art commissioners. The sixth part is focused on Michael Osvald Thun's art commissions where...