This thesis analyses caricatures of modern art in France and Bohemia in the period from 1911 to 1918. The author has set a goal to show diverse perspectives on modern art and artists on the basis of caricatural drawings that were published in humoristic magazines during the targeted period. Specifically, the aim of this study is to understand the actual perception of avant-garde art, especially of cubism, in Bohemia and France. At first the thesis overviews the available literature referring to this topic to later discuss the evolution of caricature. Thought the study the focus is drawn to development of one specific genre within caricature art - caricature of visual arts - plus the tradition of "caricatural salons" in the 19th century. The following chapter deals with the meaning of an image and chosen humoristic periodicals in the years of 1911-1918. The body of this paper, however, aims to present general chronological background together with major topics present in modern caricature both before the First World War and during the changes resulting from wartime. At the same time this chapter compares and contracts Czech and French caricature of modern art. The following chapter devoted to the interpretation of caricatures on the basis of the theory of laugh by Henry Bergson and Sigmund Freud's...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:343742 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Ždychová, Dagmar |
| Contributors | Lahoda, Vojtěch, Prahl, Roman |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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