PETR POLA : PROLEGOMENA TO PROBLEMATICS OF SOLITUDE Dissertation abstract The aim of the dissertation entitled Prolegomena to Problematics of Solitude is to introduce solitude as an existential characteristic, explore ways of its surpassing and articulate its relationship to experience of art. The issue of solitude represents for us a possible way to understand modern existence. First we examine the problem of solitude as an problem of isolated existence and formulate the question of its origin. The resolution of existential loneliness and solitude of being come to grasp the possibility of a relationship between isolation and solitude of being as sovereignty of being. Existential solitude means to effacer the relation of one who exists to oneself, which is a precondition for its existence. Finally we formulate a relationship between existential solitude and essential solitude, which is the paradigm for the experience of art especially for M. Blanchot. Deepening the problematics of existential solitude also enables to formulate the basis for discussions on the concept of subjectivity, which recently been revived.

The thesis disserts an outlook on life and Art of the Modern Indian painter M.F. Husain (1915-2011), with a special attention on his art production which reflects some of socio- cultural changes of modernizing and globalizing India of the 20th and 21th Century. The thesis has been structured in chapters dealing with Husain's personal and artistic development, providing also the analysis of some concrete art works which have been involved with the socio-cultural changes being described - from the point of view of their inner message, formal idiom or the way they have or have not been accepted by the public. The culturological paradigm has been chosen as an appropriate one to treat the topic with aim to integrate systematically various notions of the Humanities. With this goal the author of the thesis uses proper bibliographic, biographic and media references, sources from the Prague's National Gallery's Archive as well as the memoirs of the people who came together with Husain's personality and Art in the time of his visits to ex Czechoslovakia. The thesis is also a kind of deepening and specification of the two of previous bachelor theses of the author (The Modern Art in India - an outline of development, 2010 and The Indian Painting - a History of Cultural Dialogues, 2012).