Cuteness as an affect contains a group of visual and behavioral features which are capable of producing physical or emotional reactions in the body of a subject.  Speaking of cuteness as an aesthetic category this kind of response is manipulated for commercial purposes, in the context of artistic creation or as means of self-expression.  In my thesis I will be concetrating on the concept of cuteness and its use in the field of contemporary art. First I will focus on the origin of the notion of cuteness from psychobiological, sociological and culturological point of view. I will describe briefly the origin of the english term ''cute'' and japanese term ''kawaii'' and its evolvement. Than I will concentrate on the aspects of cuteness in today's society, where it has become a tool for advancement of commercial and even political interests, which will be desrcibed on the  specific examples.   Subsequently I will concentrate on the aesthetic aspects of cuteness in the context of contemporary artistic statements including sociological and lorenzian (biological) viewpoints. I will also describe these aesthetics and its usage in the field of hi-tech technologies. Cuteness can be differentiated into many subcategories (e.g. ''creepy-cute'', ''torturer-cute'', ''sexy-cute'', etc.) when speaking of its aesthetics. These will be briefly described and showed in both the theoretical and exemplary sections of the thesis. As a whole the thesis will also lead to the discussion of the artistic positions of particular artists working with cuteness aesthetics in their art production.

Die frühe Tanzfotografie sieht sich mit der Herausforderung konfrontiert, das technische Zeitregime der Lichtbildaufnahme mit dem Bewegungsfluss des Tanzes zu verbinden. Dabei sollen Dokumente entstehen, die sowohl der Ästhetik des Mediums wie auch dem inszenierten Motiv ihren Eigenraum geben. Dieses Dilemma löst Hugo Erfurth mit einer spezifischen „Blickeinstellung“ und generiert dadurch Aufnahmen, in denen die Differenz zwischen sich bewegenden Körpern und deren fotografischer Abbildung in eine pragmatisch wie ästhetisch erfolgreiche Strategie überführt werden konnte.

Diss. Linköping : Univ.

Václav Švadlena, thesis consists of two parts, the theoretical and the practical one. The theoretical part deals with the portrait its history, forms of portraiture and the gradual transition from painting to photography. The theoretical work contains chapters devoted to the authors: Francisco Goya and Alberto Giacometti. The practical part contains a set of sketches in the form of artist´s books exploring family genetic markers. I tis supplemented by the cycle of portraits the tetraptych of large-scale drawings. The aim is to inform about the phenomenon of a portrait, to create the artist´s books of sketches and a set of large drawings family portraits.

One of the most important parameters determining penetration of the photosynthetically active radiation (FAR) through the forest canopy is the leaf area index (LAI). In this thesis we concerned with a comparison of direct and indirect approaches of determining LAI and the vertical distribution of LAI in the canopy. There have been used three optical methods, using the device LiCor LAI 2200 Plant Canopy Analyzer, LaiPen and hemispherical photography. Also, we used the method of estimation LAI using airborne laser scanning. There was created allometric relationship between leaf area and the perimeter of the sample trees. These trees were also destructively processed and based on those, there were created the diagrams of the vertical distribution of leaves in the crowns of these trees. The individual values of the measured leaf area index, were in amplitude from 3.69 m2.m-2 to 11.80 m2.m-2 and the indirect methods underestimated the direct approach in average of 28.46%.

This thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. The purpose of the thesis is to remind the 400th birth anniversary of Carlo Lurago in 2015. The theoretical part deals with a life and a work of this architect. It contains mostly a description of Lurago´s buildings, it follows up to an artistic style, but also to the period in which he lived and he created these pieces. The thesis is focused on the architecture which Lurago created in Prague. There will be created a concept for the realization of the practical part, based on the analysis of these constructions. The practical part is focused on the Prague construction which is the main theme of the Author´s book form, it means a set of monochrome sheets in a box, all for the 400th anniversary of Carlo Lurago´s birth.

Youth in photographs in Mladý svět magazine (1959-1989) Jana Teplá Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyze the way youth was visually represented in the photographs in Mladý svět magazine and to find out whether and how this representation has changed during the period from 1959 to 1989 depending on the changes of discourse practices and socio-cultural practices. The study also aims to uncover how the discourse of news photographs has mingled with the discourse on youth in socialist Czechoslovakia. The specific objective of this research is to analyze the photographs of Czechoslovak youth on the front pages of the magazine with focus on the news values and the ideological messages they mediate. For the analysis of photographs were used mixed methods. Quantitative content analysis was applied to determine the news values, social semiotic analysis was applied to identify the ideological messages and oral history method was used for the extension of the contextual framework. The research part is divided into three periods of time with respect to changes in the wider socio-cultural context: the 1960s (January 1959 to December 1967), the period of the Prague Spring and shortly after the occupation by the Warsaw Pact troops (January 1968 to March 1969), and the period of "normalization" (April 1969 to...

The objective of the master's thesis called 'Photograph as the copyright and copyright protection of photographer' is to describe the basic foundations and characteristics of the current regulation of copyright work, specifically of photography. The Czech legal system do not contain a complex regulation of photography; therefore, the thesis deals with the individual aspects of copyright law related to the characterisation of photographs as a copyright work, the rights of photographers or their rights related to the protection of their copyright. The thesis is based primarily on copyright law commentaries, copyright regulation on the Czech, international and European level and on the decisions of both Czech and foreign courts due to rapid development of copyright law in the information society and the inflexibility of the current legislation. Due to the author's interest in photography, the thesis is enriched with personal observations from her own experience with photography. The thesis is divided into seven chapters. The first deals with the general description of copyright, its principles, basic concepts and the moment of copyright formation. Chapter two focuses on photography and discusses the subject of copyright protection. Chapter three deals with authorship of photography, defines under...

The goal of my thesis is an art approach of Vitezslav Nezval and Jirina Haukova poems. It is focused on the cover, first page, main title, dedication and the collectoin of illustrations. The thesis is composed of theoretical and practical part. There are motivational aspects of the art work, historical evolution and lastly the authors of the poems and their curriculum vitaes are introduced in the theoretical part. The prequel of the realization of the book itself is a closer introduction to the literature basis which is later used in the pedagogical process The attention is also payed to the illustration in general and to the art portray of the poems from other painters. There is a room at the end for verbal clarification of my own art interpretation. Practical part of the thesis includes the overall composition of the look of the book.

This master dissertation is focused on a humanitarian photo and its role in construction of "the others". By the example of the cholera outbreak in Zambia in 2010 I examine how the humanitarian photo works in respect to the process of otherization. Employing a qualitative research approach (particularly a case study) and an argumentation based on analytic generalization I suggest that each humanitarian photo necessary contains documenting and selling dimension because the humanitarians, on the one hand, speak on behalf of people in need and try to witness particular reality in their visual campaigns; and on the other hand they need to rise funds to be able to provide this humanitarian aid or development assistance, keep their work and authority of the organisation.