This thesis explores through the creation of four artworks, the nature of the sublime ruin. To facilitate this it examines the disintegration of selected religious feminine metaphors. The artworks are rendered through a multiplication of layers bound by translucent/transparent resin. These are produced to examine the potentials between traditional craft and contemporary digital mediums, thus creating sites where eroding fragments may express an excess of meaning through enigmatic construction.

This thesis explores through the creation of four artworks, the nature of the sublime ruin. To facilitate this it examines the disintegration of selected religious feminine metaphors. The artworks are rendered through a multiplication of layers bound by translucent/transparent resin. These are produced to examine the potentials between traditional craft and contemporary digital mediums, thus creating sites where eroding fragments may express an excess of meaning through enigmatic construction.

L'étude intitulée Salvador Dali et la photographie: portraits du surréalisme (1927-/942) montre comment l'image photographique se situe chez l'artiste au carrefour entre théorie et pratique, entre création et vie quotidienne. Elle propose de réévaluer la place du médium dans l'élaboration et la pratique de la théorie surréaliste en décrivant comment ce projet de libération de l'homme est utilisé pour exacerber l'individualisme. Dans un premier temps, Dali utilise l'image photographique comme une instance médiatrice qui lui permet de contrôler ses pulsions et de définir précisément les objets. Elle alimente ensuite son activité paranoïaque-critique et favorise son exploitation du concept de comestibilité. Elle assure enfin la réification de l'artiste et la diffusion de son image théâtralisée dans la presse. Les photographies, au service de la construction de l'identité comme de l'art de Dali, acquièrent ainsi une valeur, concrète ou métaphorique, de portraits. / The entitled study Salvador Dali and the photography : portraits of surrealism (1927-1942) show how, for this artist, the photographic image is placed at the crossroads of theory and practice, of creation and everyday life. It offers a reassessment of the role of the medium in the elaboration and in the practice of the surrealist theory by describing how the project of man’s liberation is used to intensify individualism. Dali starts by using the photographic image as a mediatory authority which allows him to control its drives and to define objects with accuracy. Then, it feeds his paranoiac-critical activity and serves his use of the edibility concept. Finally, it ensures the artists reification and his theatrical images spread in the press. The photographs, put to work for the construction of Dali’s identity and art, thus acquire a portrait value, concrete or metaphoric.

Univerzita Karlova v Praze Filosofická fakulta katedra estetiky Diploma thesis Šimon Svěrák Situation of the Surrealist Subject (abstract) 2012 thesis supervisor: prof. PhDr. Vlastimil Zuska, CSc. Abstract This thesis focuses on the situation of a substantial subject in the historical development of the surrealist experience and confronts it with our original postmodern interpretation of thoughts of early Marx. The surrealist consciousness is based on a dialectical opposition between rational and irrational elements of cognitive processes. André Breton apprehends this dialectics under the perspective of love life and relates it to values of love, freedom and poetry. Nevertheless, this conception changes in the immanent development of the surrealist consciousness from Breton over the work and thoughts Salvador Dalí and Mikuláš Medek to Vratislav Effenberger. Effenberger removes positive values from surrealism and puts emphasis on the critical functions of the irrational. On the psychological field, all these ideas are based on the conception of the unconscious which means there is the substantial approach in them. Our critical interpretation of Marx shows, that the surrealist concept of subject is in the contradiction with its substantial determination. The subject has to be perceived as the essential...