The purpose of the disertation From Art Criticism to Art Journalism? Czech Arts Writing after 1989 is to find out how did the Czech politics and society transformation influence the character of art critique, particularly the visual arts reflection. How did the post-1989 art critique deal with the communist regime past and relics? How was the art critique influenced by the art development and by the changes in the media structure and functioning? Content analysis of selected periodicals texts from the 1990s enables us to follow if and how do the form and content of the visual arts reflecting texts mirror the communication, art and media character and structure development. The topic connects media and communication studies with visual studies and art theory. Hanka Sladkova

This thesis is about contemporary youth's view to respect for authority and the necessity or need to respect it. The aim of thesis is to define the content of phrase respect for authority and the attempt to find typical mark necessary for creating and keeping the authority in interaction with adolescents. This thesis is theoretical and empirical. In the theoretical part emphasis is at the elementary terms related to respect and specification relations between authority and education. Attention is also focused on transformations and typical marks of contemporary youth. In empirical part is quantitative research. The aim of this research is to determine what authority means to contemporary youth and if there is some typical characteristics which are necessary for adolescents to respect authority. There is comparison between girl and boy opinions in different types of schools in this research. Data collection method is questionnaire. To evaluate it I use statistical methods. The sample of respondents is random, only criterion is age 15 -19. Main conclusion of this research is that perception of authority is very similar between the adolescents. The most commonly manifested in four areas - respect and admiration, i.e. positive relationship to the authority; admiration based on social status or social...

The present master's thesis discusses the traditional textile technique of embroidery in the context of contemporary art and analyses the way in which this craft technique has evolved from its invention to this day. The historical development points at the inevitable link between this artistic technique and women's history in Western societies, where embroidery strove to maintain stereotypes on femininity. In the twentieth century, embroidery as well as other textile techniques take on a new, subversive quality which enables the beginning of a social dialogue through art. It becomes a part of the public space in the form of banners in demonstrations or craftivist interventions in city streets. It tries to free itself from stereotypes and become an accessible technique for which the artistic process is as important as the finished piece. The work of contemporary artists reveals the shifting position of textile art, which cannot be considered as a simple offshoot of artistic craftsmanship for it has turned into in an autonomous and widely used medium of expression in current artistic production.

The dissertation examines art as a very specific luxury commodity that is difficult to define and place on a market. The objectively given uncertainty of an art market does not seem to be consistent with the investment function of an artwork. The price of this product is unstable and non transparent and it is generally formed through a marketing tool - a commercial art fair. The main aim of this dissertation is to uncover the specifics of the fine art market. The secondary objective is to determine how emerging art from the Czech Republic is represented on a global scale. The research method included expert opinions from interviews as well as statistical processing of survey answers from several different professions. The main outcome of this research found out expert opinions from prominent art institutions around the world, and their awareness of Czech contemporary art. The beneficial factor of this research is the recommendation for Czech artists and commercial galleries to penetrate the global market. Beside the practical benefits there are additional benefits for science, as the information and research is taken from different fields, which is not so sufficiently monitored or presented as well in the Czech Republic. The focus on the pedagogical benefits are evident as the author has paid much attention to these issues for several years in the conext of regular lectures on the art of marketing at the University of Economics in Prague.

This master thesis deals with the topic of the natural place and the place which is changed by people's activity. It deals with topic of genius loci, problems of loss of the place and our relationship to place where we live. In more detail it is focused on the city and its peripherals. It offers a short wiew to the history of cities and their periphery, architecture and urban planning. The thesis also deals with fine arts associated with the urban environment - artists, for which the city was and is an inspiration and a theme and with the role of art in public spaces. Research part of the thesis is aimed at children's perception of the place where we live. Through qualitative research methods I am trying to find out what is the meaning of the word "home" for todays children, how they percieve their close surroundings and what is the development of their thinking. The didact part of the thesis offers collection of art assigments for children with topic of the city that should increase children's perception of the urban environment. Some of them are inspirated by psychological geography which is based on the human perception of the environment and its reflection in our consciousness. The pedagogical reflection of realized tasks is also included in this part of work. The conclusion of the thesis is...

This paper proposes to explore language as an expressing medium for contemporary czech artists. Many of them uses analogical creation ways as the experimental poets did in the sixties. First part of this paper focuses on terms of semilogy and post-structuralistic philosophy and their influence over expressions of artists from range of experimental poetry. It is going put the accent mainly on their art invetnions, that have impact untill today. From this experience, the endeavour of contemporary artists origins to determinate, or cross the borders of their own expressing abilities. Based on analysis of selected czech contemporary artworks, the second part of this paper will try to describe the search of horizont of language as an expressing medium for contemporary czech artists.

The dissertation thesis is focused on specific segment of contemporary visual artists from Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Slovak Republic, whose work reflects the recent past. The thesis maps and interprets artistic reflections of the past with emphasis on the era of socialism in the region of Central Europe, and defines the characteristic features of the generation of artists born in the 70s and their position in the post-socialist situation. These artistic approaches are categorized and anchored in the broad current of the so-called historiographical turn in contemporary art and put in a broader cultural and art historical context. Keywords contemporary art, Central Europe, historiographic turn, archive, socialist modernism, nostalgia

This thesis is primarily focused on the field of evaluation of organizational training and its possible application on outdoor-teambuilding training activities. The goal of the paper is to critically analyze the current state of knowledge of training evaluation and, based on the discovered facts, to synthetize evaluation model, which could be used for evaluating outdoor- teambuilding programs. Firstly, the basic concepts of outdoor-training, teambuilding and evaluation are introduced. In the following chapters, there is the presentation and comparison of chosen evaluation models, which are used in the field of training. Above mentioned part provides a theoretical base for the thesis and based on this, there is a new model introduced, which is modified specifically for outdoor-teambuilding evaluation. In the conclusion, there are also recommendations for further studies and researches. Key Words: evaluation, training evaluation, evaluation models, applied evaluation, current trends in evaluation, outdoor training, teambuilding

The study deals with the creation of gallery educational programs based on cooperation with artists and curators. The text is divided into two parts. In the theoretical part we try to define theoretical discursive field of art, galleries and gallery education. In the practical part we design gallery educational programs in cooperation with the artists and verify them with the children's group. KEYWORDS gallery education, discourse, visual culture, art work, contemporary art

The thesis is divided into two parts, one theoretical and one empirical. The first one presents origin and different perception of the boulevard comedy genre in France, Czech Republic, Germany, United Kingdom and USA. Afterwards, a brief characteristic of the boulevard comedy is presented in terms of content and subject matter. Four kinds of comedy are presented - comedy of manners, comedy of situation, comedy of intrigue and interactive comedy. The translatological analysis of the Czech translation of the French humorist Laurent Baffie's contemporary play Toc toc by the director and translator Jaromír Janeček constitutes the second main part of the thesis. The analysis is based on the theoretical studies of Jiří Levý and Jan Mukařovský, which are dealing with the translation of drama, and also on the theory of so-called Manipulation school of André Lefevere. Several problems have arised from the detailed analysis of the original text. The comparison of the translation and the original text is made on the ground of these problems. Subsequently, there is an evaluation of the translation. In some cases, a different solution is proposed. The work is supplemented by insights into the translation practice, which are drawn from personal interviews with translators and experts on drama.