Alors que la reconstruction matérielle du pays s’achevait au milieu des années Vingt, il en allait de même pour le champ politique français. A partir de 1924, le retour à une nette bipolarisation entre gauche et droite eut un effet structurant sur le champ politique français, qui n’avait plus connu une telle configuration depuis le début du XXe siècle. Les élections de 1924, marquées par la victoire du Cartel des gauches face au Bloc national, apparaissent comme une césure politique, largement négligée par l’historiographie de l’entre-deux-guerres depuis les travaux de Jean-Noël Jeanneney sur le Cartel des gauches dans les années 1970. De leur passage dans l’opposition en 1924-1926, les droites françaises tirèrent un certain nombre de leçons. La principale était que le verdict des urnes pouvait être renversé en cours de législature : en juillet 1926, la majorité cartelliste, affaiblie par les contradictions entre socialistes et radicaux face à une crise financière et monétaire qui s’aggravait, laissa définitivement place à une majorité d’union nationale, réunie sous l’autorité du principal adversaire des gauches lors de la campagne de 1924, Raymond Poincaré. Pour les droites de nouveau vaincues en 1932 et en 1936, c’était un précédent à retenir. Autre leçon, les mobilisations anticartellistes, dans leur diversité, au sein du champ politique ou du champ social, avaient contribué à affaiblir la majorité radicale et socialiste : l’action militante, politique et sociale, avait une capacité d’influence non négligeable au sein du régime parlementaire de la Troisième République. De 1924 à 1926, les organisations anticartellistes politiques ou associatives, à l’instar de celles entendant représenter les intérêts des catholiques ou des commerçants et artisans, développèrent une culture et des pratiques politiques d’opposition, qu’elles firent rejouer tout au long de l’entre-deux-guerres. Cette expérience démontra également la persistance, dans l’opposition, des divisions structurelles du champ politique des droites, en raison du maintien de clivages tant doctrinaux (sur la laïcité, la politique étrangère ou le parlementarisme), que stratégiques (attitude d’intransigeance ou de conciliation vis-à-vis des radicaux). Dans leur ensemble, ces divisions, mais aussi les débats et les pratiques politiques qui s’épanouirent pendant ces deux années, perdurèrent jusqu’au milieu des années Trente. / In the mid-twenties, France was achieving its reconstruction, both economical and political. In 1924, and for the first time since the beginning of the century, the general election took place in a context of a clear bipolarization between left and right, which had a structuring effect on French political field. The victory of the Cartel des gauches at this election appears as a political break-point, that the historiography about political life during interwar years has rather neglected since Jean-Noël Jeanneney’s studies upon Cartel des gauches in the seventies. The organizations of the right-wing learnt a few important lessons from this period when they were in the parliamentary opposition. The most important one was that the political majority coming out democratic election could be changed in the middle of the parliamentary legislature. Indeed, in July 1926, weakened by the growing divisions between radicals and socialists incapable of giving an answer to the increasing financial and monetary crisis, the cartellist majority fell definitely. Raymond Poincaré, the main opponent of the left in 1924, came back to the Council presidency, leading a new parliamentary majority of national union. When the right had been defeated again in 1932 and 1936, it remembered this precedent. Another lesson was that the various social and political mobilizations against the Cartel des gauches had played a significant role to weaken the socialist and radical majority. The community movements, such as catholic or professional ones, and the political organizations mobilized in this period, built a culture and abilities of being in political opposition, that they have reactivated later during the interwar years. This episode proved also the persistence, in political opposition, of structural divisions of the political field of the French right-wing, due to the permanence of doctrinal and strategic splits (the first ones about questions of secularism, foreign policy or parliamentary nature of institutions; the second ones about the political attitude toward the radicals, between uncompromising attitude and conciliation). These divisions, but also the nature of the political debates and the political practices which were developed during these two years, had lasted until the mid-thirties.

This graduation thesis is dedicated to the description and analysis of economic development in interwar Czechoslovakia during the Great Depression. Firstly, political and economical changes which occurred in the world after the World War I and which had subsequently the main influence on the collapse of world's economy will be described. Also oppinions on possible causes of origin of this crisis will be summarized. The main scope of this graduation thesis is to describe and analyze the penetration of the Great Depression into the Czechoslovak economy, it's course and consequences that this crisis caused. The penetration of the crisis is observed in three different periods according to it's power. A significant part of this thesis consists above all with an observation of development of the macroeconomic indicators during the Great Depression in particular sectors of the Czechoslovak economy and their confrontation with the situation before the crisis. This thesis also addresses the question of social impacts of the crisis in Czechoslovakia. One part is also dedicated to comparison of the main economic indicators with other selected countries affected by the crisis.

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The thesis is aimed at the subject of classicism in a broader sense of this term and is based on the classicism period architecture in the Czech Republic. The introductory chapter intends to briefly and independently define and clarify the terms classical, classicism and neoclassicism, deal with the shaping of the classical canon in Europe and outline the evolution of classical features in the history of the Czech architecture in the European context. In separate chapters the thesis systematically follows the matters of classicism in the first half of the 19th century, in the periods of pure and late historicism and early and paramount modernism. Special attention has been paid to the matters of classicism in the Czech thoughts on art in the interwar period and during the German occupation. Having analysed the classicism-style tendencies in the socialist realism architecture the thesis identifies basic classicism-style aspirations in the 2nd half of the 20th century and in the beginning of the 21st century. The final chapter is dedicated to the identification of the main overall specifics of classicism in the Czech architecture based on a list of examples.

French art in the interwar Czechoslovakia and its influence The Diploma thesis / Šárka Komedová Abstract The aim of the Diploma thesis French art in the interwar Czechoslovakia and its influence is to show a significance of French art for a development of Czechoslovakian art in an interwar period. It will focus on the Czech-French cultural relationships, the French art exhibitions and other French cultural activities in Prague 1918-1938. The main part of the thesis is detailed documentation of French art exhibitions held in interwar Prague. It will also deal with influences of the French art on interwar Czechoslovakian visual art. Keywords Czechoslovakia (1918 - 1939), Prague's exhibitions of French art, French modern art, Czech interwar art, The popularity of French nation

La Renaissance de la photographie entre la fin des années 1920 et le début des années 1930 en France était-elle liée au seul cercle des avants-gardes ? Les historiens de la photographie ont longtemps orienté leurs recherches sur le fait que les photographes de la Nouvelle Vision avaient sorti la photographie des errements du pictorialisme et lui avait rendu son autonomie vis-à-vis des arts graphiques, toutefois ils ont négligé une remarque formulée dès 1930 par Carlo Rim selon lequel « les images abstraites de Man Ray et de Tabard, qui annoncèrent une réaction heureuse […] ne fur[ent] qu’une vogue éphémère ». Si la Nouvelle Vision fut considérée comme un nouvel âge d’or, elle fut rapidement éclipsée en France par un retour « à l’image la plus nette du sujet le plus pauvre » généré par la redécouverte des photographes primitifs.C’est à cette part de l’histoire de la photographie que cette étude sur le photographe Emmanuel Sougez (1889-1972) est consacrée. Car si Sougez a été élevé au rang des maîtres de la photographie et célébré jusque dans les années 1950 comme le plus grand photographe français vivant, c’est pour avoir réintroduit l’usage de la chambre photographique de grand format et le tirage par contact. Ce faisant, cette étude fait apparaître une autre face de la Renaissance de la photographie en France à partir d’une figure oubliée, en évoquant le rôle crucial que Sougez a joué entre le Premier Salon indépendant de la photographie en 1928 et le dernier Salon national de la photographie en 1959. Aussi, en soulignant l’apport de ce photographe à l’histoire de son art, cette thèse révèle des aspects inédits de la photographie dans la première moitié du XXe siècle. / Is it possible for the renaissance in the field of photography that took place in France between the 1920’s and early 1930’s to be traced to a single group of avant-garde artists ? Photography historians have traditionally concentrated their research on the fact that the photographs of the New Vision released photography from the mistakes of pictorialism and gave it back its autonomy in terms of graphic arts. However, they neglected a remark made in 1930 by Carlo Rim: “the abstract images of Man Ray and Tabard, which foreshadow a joyful reaction, are nothing but an ephemeral fad.” Though the New Vision can be considered to be photography’s new golden age, in France it was rapidly eclipsed by a return “to the most in focus image of the poorest subject,” generated by the rediscovery of early photographs.It is to this era in the history of photography that this study of the photographer Emmanuel Sougez (1889-1972) is devoted. Sougez’s rise to the ranks of the masters of photography and his celebration until the 1950’s as one of the greatest living French photographers, is largely due to his reintroduction of the use of a large format view camera and contact prints. Thus, this study brings to light another facet of the renaissance of photography in France, within the context of a forgotten figure, by assessing the crucial role that Sougez played between the First Independent Salon of Photography in 1928 and the last National Salon of Photography in 1959. Furthermore, in emphasizing the photographer’s contribution to his art, this thesis reveals previously unseen aspects of photography in the first half of the 20th century.

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The diploma thesis is dedicated to the countess and philanthropist S. V. Panina. It focuses mainly on her life and philanthropic activities. The first chapter contains the biography of S. V. Panina. The second chapter is devoted to the philanthropic activities of countess. The first part of this chapter elaborates on her project, which was implemented in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, namely the Ligovsky people's house. The second subchapter is devoted to the activities of S. V. Panina in Czechoslovakia. First, the operation and financing of the Russian people's house, called Russian Fireplace, is elaborated here. Subsequently, this part deals with the activities of S. V. Panina in the Executive Committee for the Organization of the Russian Culture Days in Czechoslovakia. The third subchapter focuses on the countess' charitable activities in the United States, where she left from Czechoslovakia. The last fourth part of the chapter is devoted to the countess' individual charitable activities.

[pt] Esta dissertação mapeia relações entre o movimento antropofágico e o movimento eugenista no contexto entreguerras no Brasil. A eugenia, ciência do aprimoramento da raça, predominava nos meios científicos mundiais e nacionais, enquanto a Antropofagia representava, no campo cultural, uma ampliação e amadurecimento ideológico do modernismo brasileiro. Assim como na geração de 1870, que buscou interpretar o Brasil através da aplicação de preceitos científicos na crítica literária, na geração de 1920 as questões culturais e raciais retornaram com mesmo léxico. A intelectualidade letrada e científica do país, impulsionada por um surto de modernização do Estado (maximizado ao fim da primeira guerra), ganhou um novo fôlego para reverter a imagem do Brasil como uma nação atrasada, devido às alegações fatalistas sobre o clima, a miscigenação e a herança colonial. Simultaneamente, pensava-se em resolver a falta de coesão entre os elementos étnicos, intensificada após uma larga imigração europeia. Através da análise do periódico paulista, Revista de Antropofagia, e de seus suplementos literários em outros estados (pouco considerados pela crítica), é possível perceber que ambos os grupos, com perspectivas heterogêneas e até divergentes internamente, encontraram uma confluência ao debater a formação de uma raça brasileira essencialmente mestiça, forte e original, dotada de uma unidade moral e espiritual. Tal aproximação entre a Antropofagia e a eugenia colabora para a compreensão dos motivos pelos quais a valorização da herança negra e ameríndia dentro da brasilidade modernista (absorvida pelo Estado a partir de 1930), longe de ter rompido com os preconceitos raciais, culminou na legitimação de um modelo peculiar de neutralização das alteridades através da devoração. / [en] This dissertation maps the relations between the Antropophagy(Anthropophagic Movement) and the Eugenics Movement in Brazilian interwar context. Eugenics, is the science of racial improvement, predominated in bothglobal and national scientific circles, while Anthropophagy represented, in thecultural field, an expansion and ideological maturation of Brazilian Modernism s.Similar to the generation of the 1870s, which sought to interpret Brazil through the application of scientific principles in literary criticism, in the 1920s, cultural and racial concerns resurfaced with the same lexicon. The country s literary and scientific intelligentsia, driven by a modernizing surge from the State (which was maximized after the First World War), gained new impetus to reverse the image of Brazil as a backward nation due to fatalistic claims about the climate,miscegenation, and colonial heritage. Simultaneously, there was a desire to address the lack of cohesion among ethnic elements, intensified after a significant European immigration. Through the analysis of the São Paulo s literary journal Revista de Antropofagia and its literary supplements in other states (often overlooked bycritics), it is possible to perceive that both groups, with heterogeneous and eveninternally divergent perspectives, found a confluence when discussing the formation of a Brazilian race that is essentially strong, miscegenation-driven, and endowed with moral and spiritual unity. This convergence between Anthropophagy and eugenics contributes to the understanding of why the valorization of Black and Amerindian heritage within Modernism s Brazilianness (incorporated by the Statestarting from 1930) far from breaking with racial prejudices, culminating in the legitimation of a peculiar model of neutralizing otherness through devouring.

Cotutelle - Université libre de Bruxelles/Université de Montréal / Si la majorité des recherches situées au croisement de la musicologie et des études cinématographiques s’est centrée sur une exploitation des sources filmiques et des textes musicaux comme outil d’analyse, le prisme de la presse permet de porter un nouvel éclairage sur les principaux enjeux de la musique au cinéma. Cette thèse se propose de mettre en examen les premiers discours sur la musique au cinéma parus dans la presse française, de l’essor de la culture des grands orchestres de fosse à la fin de la commercialisation des technologies du cinéma sonore (1918-1934). La première partie interroge les fonctions octroyées à l’objet musical au cinéma par le biais d’un périodique musical (Le Courrier musical, 1917-1935) et son esthétique par la figure d’un critique spécialiste de la question (Raymond Berner, 1921-1934). Ensuite, nous soulignons la valeur musicale des technologies développées par Charles Delacommune pour la mise en place du synchronisme audiovisuel au temps du cinéma muet (dans les écrits de Raymond Berner) et du sonore (chez Émile Vuillermoz). Les bases théoriques des deux principales pratiques de l’accompagnement musical des films muets – l’adaptation et la partition originale – sont questionnées à l’aune du discours des adaptateurs et des écrits parus dans la presse musicale. Dans la foulée, la deuxième partie de cette thèse se centre sur les discours tenus dans la presse musicale lors de la transition vers le cinéma sonore (1928-1934). Nous montrons sur quelles bases s’articulent les principales considérations techniques (la musique mécanique, la synthèse sonore), socio-professionnelles (le chômage des musiciens exécutants), pédagogiques (l’enseignement de la musique à l’aide du film), et esthétiques (la phonogénie, la musique et les effets sonores) de la musique dans le film sonore. Notre analyse se concentre ensuite sur les discours sur les premiers films sonores français publiés dans La Revue musicale, tout en cernant l’exemple du film Rapt (Dimitri Kirsanoff, musique d’Arthur Hoérée et Arthur Honegger, 1934). Enfin, nous démontrons comment une approche synthétique des entretiens menés auprès des compositeurs permet d’approfondir notre compréhension du travail des musiciens au studio. / While the majority of the researches at the crossroads of musicology and film studies has focused on harnessing films and music scores as analytical tools, the lens of the press allows to shed a new light on the most salient film music issues. This thesis aims on investigating the first discourses on film music published in the French press, from the rise of great cinema theater orchestras to the end of the commercialization of sound film technologies (1918-1934). The first part stresses film music functions through one specific music periodical (Le Courrier musical, 1917-1935) and its aesthetic through the figure of a critic specialized on the topic (Raymond Berner, 1921-1934). Then, we underline the musical value of the technologies developed by Charles Delacommune for the achievement of audiovisual synchronism during the silent film era (based on Raymond Berner’s writings) and the sound film era (based on Émile Vuillermoz’s writings). The theoretical basis of the two main silent film accompaniment practices – adaptation and original score – are questioned within the discourses of the adaptators and texts published in music periodicals. In the same perspective, the second part of this thesis focuses on the discourses published in the music press during the transition to sound film (1928-1934). We uncover and analyse of the main sound film music technological (the “musique mécanique”, sound synthesis), socio-professional (performing musicians’ unemployment), didactical (the teaching of music with the aid of film), and aesthetical (“phonogénie”, music and sound effects) issues. Our research then focuses on the discourses on the first French sound film published in the Revue musicale (1921-1939), while examining the case of the film Rapt (Dimitri Kirsanoff, music by Arthur Hoérée and Arthur Honegger, 1934). Finally, we show how a synthesis approach of interviews with composers allows to deepen our understanding of the work of musicians in film studios.