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Slunce, vzduch a pohyb: výsledek je krása. Obraz přirozeného a kultivovaného ženského těla v meziválečném Československu / Sun, Air and Movement: Result Is the Beauty. Image of Natural and Cultivated Woman Body in the Interwar CzechoslovakiaPádejová, Monika January 2020 (has links)
(anglický) The presented master's thesis focuses on the visual representation of the natural and cultivated female body, responding to the hygienic, eugenic and aesthetic requirements of the newly created state. In addition to strengthening the modern national identity, it was to form and represent a positive image of the new womanhood that resulted in the project of a civilized woman in the late 1920s. The new social arrangement required a new type of modern man, and therefore also of a woman. Within it, two seemingly unrelated areas merged - science and visual culture, which pursued to define the ideal of the modern female body: beautiful, healthy, morally and aesthetically appealing. The image of a woman doing sports became the emblem of the newly formed republic. The female body gained added aesthetic value, it became a new ornament and communicative sign, infiltrating into the visual culture beginning with advertising and culminating in fine arts. We focus on the role of modern dance and the personality of Milča Mayerová, a prominent First Republic dancer and symbol of a modern woman, who reflected the changing requirements of the time with her visual representation and publishing activities. Key words (anglický) Body, modernity, womanhood, new woman, visual culture, visual representation,...
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