Herman, Alexandr. Lirical elements in Lorca´s theatre - Bloody wedding. České Budějovice: Pedagogická fakulta Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích, 2011, 103 s., Diploma thesis. This diploma thesis presents lyrical elements in teatral work of Federico García Lorca. Author himself belogs among top members of an avantgarde movement in Spain. His dramas are up to now very often shown at the most prestigious theatre house in the world, his poetry, very often explained in new interpretation, absorbing an echoe of the folk lyric. The author was bor in the year 1898, year that ment withdrawal from its ancient position. This new situation is reflected at a new actitude towards an art and Spain. This work is divided into three parts.

The subject of this theses are the films of Lithuanian avant-garde artist, organizator and original interpreter of life, Jonas Mekas. Specifically I'm dealing with the development of his work from the complex film-diaritical sagas to video pieces presented on his web side. I'm exploaring where does he see the diference between the way he captures life and what we call documentary film, what does a reality means to him and how does he get closer to it's essence with the help of his camera. I'm observing how did the recent technical development effected his work - the arrival of video, computers and subsequently internet. I'm trying to understand where does diary-film stand in the frame of history of cinema and where is it's place in the context of the contemporary art scene.

This paper, based on archival and period media research, tries to describe the relationship between the Electrical Enterprises of the City of Prague and the Czechoslovak avant-garde in the 1920's and 1930's. The Electrical Enterprises of the City of Prague helped to carry out several exceptional film and intermedia projects through their regular advertising contracts, including the film Praha v záři světel (Prague by Night, 1928), Zdeněk Pešánek's light-kinetic sculpture (1930) or the short experimental film Světlo proniká tmou (Light that Penetrates Darkness, 1931). There are also screenplays in the company archives which have never been realized but demonstrate much about the relationship between advertising and art in the interwar period. The author emphasizes the role of the public's general fascination with electrification, artificial light in the modern city and new forms in the collectively shared public space.

Title: Development of Czech and Dutch architectures in the first half of the 20th century and their liaison Author: Miroslav Pavel Department: Department of Cultural Studies Supervisor: PhDr. Petra Hoftichová Abstract: This master thesis deals with comparison between the development of Czech and Dutch architectures and with a search for their liaison in the first half of the 20th century. The research is primarily focused on particular representatives of architecture, on their work and subsequently on responses to them abroad. The development of architecture is seen in the context of a historical framework which consists of the critical milestones of our history. Social, ecological, political and cultural determinants, which are presented on the basis of the historical framework, affect architecture as a material expression and a tangible artefact of a particular society. The research is represented by two seemingly self-contained evolutionary lines of Czechoslovak and Dutch achitectures. The evolutionary lines are connected by the personages of Czech or Dutch architecture or by the leaders of European avant-garde. Description of the avant-garde art associations and societies, which are the prime movers and innovators, constitute a significant part of this work. A notional shared peak of Czechoslovak and...

CZECH AVANT-GARDE AND BOOK ILLUSTRATION Diploma thesis deals with a book illustration creation of Czech avant-garde creators of 20's and 30's of 20th century. In the first chapter, there is defined a concept of avant- garde and it devotes itself relation of Czech avant-garde artists to book. There is emphasized a change of social function and visual form of book. Following chapters discuss book illustration creation of individual authors. At first there is analyzed an illustration work of Jan Zrzavý, Josef Čapek, František Muzika, František Tichý and Adolf Hoffmeister. Their creation is devided according to the main features to chapters devoted to modernist classicism, primitivism and expressionism, poetic figuration and simplification the figure to a sign. Seperate chapter is devoted to illustrations of children books. It defines a place of children book in Czech art between the wars and it devotes to main authors of illustration for children: Josef Čapek, Toyen, Milada Marešová, František Tichý and František Janoušek. In the next part this thesis deals with illustration creation of Karel Teige, Josef Šíma, Toyen and Jindřich Štyrský. Their illustration works are devided into chapters from the point of view of belonging to artistic tendency or according to thematic specialization. There are...

The aim of the diploma thesis is to introduce the conception of art produced by major Czech art-critic Jindřich Chalupecký in relation to the movement of historical avant-garde and later manifestations of the neo-avant-garde. The thesis discusses Chalupecký within a broader contemporary context, and uses comparative method to illustrate the complexity of Chalupecký's thought together with the concept of new mythology he shared with some of his contemporaries. The thesis consists of three parts which freely correspond to the sequential progression of Chalupecký's thought and his conception of the avant-garde. The thesis stresses the originality of Chalupecký's approach to modern art, and considers its colorful manifestations.

The theme of the work is assessment of argumentation strategies used by Revue Devetsil (ReD) editors, eg in response to articles published elsewhere or other critical contributions - especially in the context of conflict of art and politics. In particular, the observed situations relate to cases in which ReD editors expressed their views on the evaluations of contemporary avant-garde movement. The content of the study is an analysis of argumentation techniques according to social viewpoint. Rather than formal stylistic means, the text is oriented to contents and context of the use of specific or repeated arguments, especially the position from which the message is being produced. At the same time, the work captures the communication traits and characteristics of the First Republic cultural journalism and the position of the Czech avant-garde at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s. The thesis is divided into four chapters and a conclusion. The first one presents the media landscape of the First Republic cultural journalism, the second chapter informs about Devetsil movement, third part focuses on presentation of the goals of the Revue Devetsil, the fourth chapter presents examples of argumentative concepts on the genre of the manifesto, the polemics and the theoretical study. The conclusion discusses...

Abstract The work outlines several key aspects of the theatrical avant garde - namely the work of Richard Foreman, Mary Overlie and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - in relation to the artistic development of the author over the past two years with detailed examples of practical work (The Water Hen, The Foreman Notebooks Workshop and Rotten Kid Dong Sells His Ma).

The submitted thesis concentrates on poetry of the Czech art group "Literární skupina", which was established in 1921. This thesis is divided into several chapters, in which the author interprets the poetry of single authors on the basis of several flag features. There are terms and motives of death and life as two inseparable parts of human being, religiousness and religion and shifting of the original meanings, further conception of an individual in terms of community. Another chapter deals with the motive of heart and reflections of sensibility and emotive involvement in interest of creation of "the new world". The last chapter displays reflections of "Literární skupina" by temporal critics and discussions between this art group and Prague avantgarde group "Devětsil". The author is interpreting the poetry in the context with expressionism, which meaning she feels in the wide word sense, not just as an artistic movement, but as a "stream", which goes through all spheres of human activity. From this point of view the group "Literární skupina" can be also seen - as an art group which was not distanced from expressionism, but on contrary in the beginning joined it via its speaker František Götz. The autor of this study analyzes the theoretical thoughts of "Literární skupina" which obviously in strong contrast to practical artistic gesture in poetry can be found.

Annotation This diploma work is centred on the Milada Součková´s poetry between years 1942 ? 1983. The opening chapter is devoted to thesis and to methodolohical demarcation of the diploma work. Next the work attends to terminological demarcation of the notion ?avant-garde?. Primarily features chosen vocabulary imtems then result from Vladimír Papoušek´s book ? Gravitation of avant-gard. The second chapter deal with confrontation tendency of avant-garde with artistic tendency in Milada Součková´s piece. The work then ask question if is adequate to talk of Součková in context of avant-garde. Then the work hints at the same problemms in the chapter three which is devoted to Milada Součková´s husband, Zdenek Rykr. Then this chapter deals with contracted interception of Rykr´s life and try to cut up the similar common tendencies in the husbands´s pieces. The chapter fourth focuses on three Milada Součková´s studies, written between 1954 ? 1964. There are the studies characterized shortly in the work and confronted partly with the Součková´s piece and life again. The closing chapter is devoted to Milada Součková´s poetry itself. There are presented the idividual garners in the subchapters, the garners are interpreted by authoress of this work, she captures common tendencies of Součková´s piece and the garners are confronted each other. She references to two poems published between 1938 - 1939 also. The claim of this chapter is then to cut up the metamorphoses or recurrent themes, motives in the Milada Součková´s complex piece on the contrary.