The history of the art museum's growth in America is presented in this thesis to place the development of the public art museum in the proper context. The museum has absorbed its sense of worth and power from the people who shaped its policy and believed in its ability to accomplish positive feats. Its growth as a force in the art world was subtle and studied, but amazingly complete. The museum which doubts its ability to persuade, convince, educate and entertain does not long survive. Examining the people and their attitudes with whom the museums had the most contact and noting its response to the world in which it has operated, the parallels are strikingly similar. The museum is strong because groups contributed to its growth and maturity; its weaknesses are those in which the three factions were also less effective. There are no hard and fast truths to prove this theory -- but examination of its plausability is a valuable tool for understanding how the museum became such an important institution of our time.

The museum field has changed dramatically in the past thirty years, shifting from museum staff collecting anything and everything to staff collecting with a narrow focus defined within a museum’s collection plan. Today’s museum professionals are faced with a backlog of collection problems such as works that do not fit within the museum’s mission statement, unaccessioned works and a lack of storage due to the overzealous collecting of previous generations. Many museums are now attempting to deal with the problems left by past staff members by going through the collection, piece by piece, and making decisions which shape the collection to better reflect the image of the museum today. I addressed this problem with one collection, the Martin S. Ackerman Foundation Collection, at VCUarts Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. This project consisted of locating and inventorying the collection as well as documenting the works to prepare for possible accession into the Anderson Gallery permanent collection. This paper addresses the challenges and outcomes of my collection survey, while providing a model for others to follow in dealing with decades of collections buildup.

Surrounding materials, signage, and detritus on the daily path offer plenty to look at, if not too much. The eye seeks comfort in its passive vision by ignoring its peripheries. Identification of my personal vision reveals itself through the manipulation of ignored material. I consider hand-made vs. machine made, singular vs. the multiple particularly in plastics, packaging and other utilitarian objects. Industrial processes influence my one-person operation. Understanding the way objects are made allows for an opportunity to connect with them. I’m already surrounded by them, the least I can do is get to know them better.

Legal regulation of the Commercial Register The purpose of my master's thesis is to describe the Commercial Register legislation in the Czech Republic, including both a development of the Commercial Register and its current legal framework, with regard to a recent recodification of private law which came into effect on January 1, 2014. The thesis is composed of 8 chapters. Chapter One summarizes a legislation development of the Commercial Register in Czech countries since the Austria-Hungary period through the changes of a legal system after 1989 to a current legislation after recodification. Chapter Two deals with a term and a nature of the Public Registers of Legal Entities and Natural Persons, on which all of the elemental principles of the Commercial Register are explained, when the Commercial Register had become one of the types of public registers. Subchapter about courts maintaining the Commercial Register contains an analysis of their operations. Subchapter about persons and entries that can be entered into public registers defines essential facts, which shall be entered into the register. Chapter Three explores the Commercial Register, its individual units and facts which can enter those units. It is necessary to keep the legislation generality of public registers in mind, to which a...

This diploma thesis is divided into 5 chapters. The thesis is supplemented by 7 attachments. The thesis deals with the single place of collection, with the reform of tax and insurance payments collection. Introduction of the single place of collection would radically change the field of taxes and insurance payments imposed in connection with employment. This thesis compares the legislation of the end of 2013 and the legislation proposed by the draft of act on public insurance payments and personal income tax administration. The latter one is compared in key different aspects with legislation of the act No. 458/2011 Coll., on Amendment of Acts in Connection with Establishment of Single Place of Collection and on Other Amendments to Tax and Insurance Acts. The brief definition of the single place of collection through its main goals and principles in the first chapter is followed by the chapter on the history of the single place of collection project. The failure to follow the schedule as well as the participation of the World Bank is pointed out. The legislative process of the acts and the Senate legal measure implementing the first phase of the single place of collection is briefly described. The third chapter composes of two crucial parts. Firstly, the legislation of public health insurance,...

The thesis builds on the extensive work of bachelor of 2012. It examines the manuscript collection of songs Podstrážišťské Josef Václav Kratochvil. The first part describes the folk songs of Pelhřimov, folk songs in general and describes the development of folk songs in Bohemia and Moravia. This chapter also deals with the division of folk songs by region, collections of these regions and their collectors. These sub-themes also include sources and their gaining. Finally, the thesis refers to the collector Josef Václav Kratochvíl and his manuscript collection Podstrážišťské songs. In the next section the thesis classifies the literary aspect of songs, their themes and types also by the music side. In the following section the thesis discusses in general stylization of accompanied of folk songs. It also includes the possibility of using part of the folk songs and presents some selected examples of folk ensembles, folk institutions and the media which folklore spreads. The final section discusses the specific arrangements of folk songs from our collection and stylized accompaniment which has been discussed in previous chapters. The last chapter of the thesis includes 97 songs transcribed from the manuscript collection of Josef Václav Kratochvíl into a notation software. KEYWORDS: Folk Song,...

The thesis builds on the extensive work of bachelor of 2012. It examines the manuscript collection of songs Podstrážišťské Josef Václav Kratochvil. The first part describes the folk songs of Pelhřimov, folk songs in general and describes the development of folk songs in Bohemia and Moravia. This chapter also deals with the division of folk songs by region, collections of these regions and their collectors. These sub-themes also include sources and their gaining. Finally, the thesis refers to the collector Josef Václav Kratochvíl and his manuscript collection Podstrážišťské songs. In the next section the thesis classifies the literary aspect of songs, their themes and types also by the music side. In the following section the thesis discusses in general stylization of accompanied of folk songs. It also includes the possibility of using part of the folk songs and presents some selected examples of folk ensembles, folk institutions and the media which folklore spreads. Lay stress on the role of a family. Next the folk song is presented as a material that can be used in a pedagogical field. The essential part of the thesis is a supplement that contains 97 songs from the manuscript collection of songs compiled in a notation software.

Etude des conceptions et pratiques d'édition de la littérature dont témoignent les parcours de Jean Cayrol et de la collection Ecrire,confirmant l'hypothèse d'une écriture éditoriale dont l'édition française reste durablement marquée. Dans l'histoire de l'édition française, la période de l'après-guerre figure un renouvellement du paysage littéraire. Une jeune littérature advient promue par les éditeurs. Parmi plusieurs nouvelles structures, les éditions du Seuil se distinguent par leur volonté de rejoindre le camp des grandes maisons généralistes. Un éditeur, qui est aussi auteur au Seuil, prend en main l'avenir littéraire de la maison d'édition, il s'agit de Jean Cayrol. Résistant, ayant séjourné dans un camp de concentration et solidement attaché à la littérature. Cayrol invente le romanesque lazaréen. Manière d'écrire, de publier, qui tient compte de l'expérience concentrationnaire sans la citer nommément. En 1956, Jean Cayrol fonde la collection Écrire. Les auteurs n'y sont publics qu'une seule fois, pour de courts textes qui, habituellement, échappent au regard de l'éditeur. La critique remarque les auteurs sélectionnés par Cayrol. Leur singularité reflète l'éclectisme de leur éditeur qui développe une technique éditoriale propre, une manière de lire, de choisir et de bâtir un édifice littéraire. À sa suite, douze auteurs deviennent éditeurs. Chacun, singulièrement, perpétue le style de Jean Cayrol, apporte sa marque à l'édition littéraire française. Des collections témoignent d'une attention accrue aux jeunes auteurs dans la période 1950-1965, aucune n'a poussé l'expérience éditoriale autant qu'Écrire. / Study of the works of Jean Cayrol in his collection "Ecrire" that will illuminate into the study of conceptions and practic of publication of literature. The study will confirm the hypothesis of a form editorial writing, which strongly influenced French publication. The period after the war is representative of a renewal in the landscape of literature, which saw the promotion of a fresh form of literature. Among these new structures, the publishing house "Edition du Seuil" set itself apart by its willingness to join the bigger, well known, general publishing houses. Jean Cayrol who was both an author and editor in "Edition du Seuil" took charge of its literary future. Having spent time in a concentration camp as a consequence of his resistance, Cayrol was solidly attached to literature. He invented the "Lazareen" which is a type of novel writing associated with biblical Lazarus's story. This form of writing acknowledges the experience without explicitly citing it. In 1956 Jean Cayrol crea ted "Ecrire" a collection of short texts, which would ordinarily not have caught the eyes of publishers. Authors were published only once in this collection and we fortunate to be recognized by the critics. The assortment of the author's diverse works in this collection projected the publisher's uniqueness to develop a spécifie editorial technique, a way of reading and a path of choice to a lïterary edifice. Consequently, 12 authors in his collection became publishers each perpetuating Jean Cayrol's style in French literature publications. In the period 1950-1965, no collection was able to promote young authors and impact publication as much as "Ecrire".

Title: Book of problems of kinematics of mass point Author: Jana Moltašová Department: Department of Physics Education Supervisor: RNDr. Dana Mandíková, CSc. Supervisor's e-mail address: Dana.Mandikova@mff.cuni.cz Abstract: This thesis is a follow-up to the bachelor thesis titled Book of problems of kinematics of mass point for students of Physics Education. This work is a part of wider project which aim is to create an electronic collection of problems completed with detailed solutions and structured hints. Within the frame of this work was made part of collection with forty problems, which theme is kinematics of mass point. Most of problems were chosen from already existing collections and textbooks. Each problem contains task, system of hints and resulting solutions of hints, detailed solution and answer. At the beginning of the work are given aims of the work and its structure. In the next part of work is mentioned a survey of curriculum which is instructed in lower and upper secondary school and university in brief, which relates to this theme. The next part is a survey and brief characterization of collections of problems with this theme. The fourth part of the work is devoted to the electronic collection of problems, its history, the technical elaboration of problems, there is described the...

Title: Electronic Collections of Solved Problems in Physics - Alternating current Author: Michala Pfefrčková Department: Department of Physics Education Supervisor: RNDr. Zdeňka Koupilová, Ph.D. Supervisor's e-mail address: zdenka.koupilova@mff.cuni.cz The main aim of this diploma thesis was to prepare a set of specialized tasks in Physics. These tasks are supposed to contain comprising structured hints leading to solution of the given examples. The set is implemented in the e-collection posted on http://fyzikalniulohy.cz. This set includes 25 tasks mostly targeted on high schools students. It supplies them with additional tasks for effective study suitable even for university students, starters, as a revision. The other part of the thesis contains a syllabus of alternating current study and the organization of the tasks how to use them to illustrate clearly the particular physical terms. Keywords: alternating current, structured tasks, e-collection, syllabus