The students will learn about the problematics of art in the public sphere and about the art world. Theoretical knowledge will provide the student with elementary orientation in the problematics and will be deepened in relevant disciplines according to the students' individual needs.

The students will learn about the issues of art in the public environment, about its social and aesthetic function, about the importance of various political contexts, and the various sociological aspects.

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   Tutor: Ambrůz Jan, prof. akad. soch.

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   Tutor: Kocman Jiří Hynek, doc. MVDr.

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   Tutor: Kocman Jiří Hynek, doc. MVDr.

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   Tutor: Kvíčala Petr, prof. MgA.

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   Tutor: Ruller Tomáš, prof. akad. soch.

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   Tutor: Sedlák Jan, prof. PhDr., CSc.

7. Contemporary discourse in public space

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   Tutor: Stratil Václav, doc., Prom. Ped.

8. Development international co-operation

   Tutor: Gabriel Michal, prof. akad. soch.

9. Environmental concept in public space

   The area of research is based on the need to reflect the specificity of environmental concepts in public space. The research is interdisciplinary, it employs urbanism, sociology, ecology, street art and its further manifestation in land art or eco-art. The outcome of the dissertation will be both theoretical and practical, will be presented in public as a possible realization of an artwork.

   Tutor: Palla Marian, doc. MgA.

10. Imaginary communication

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    Tutor: Preková Jana, doc. Mgr.

11. Public Space and Imagination

    The aim of the topic is to explore the relationship between visual art in public space (including architecture) and human (social) psychology - imagination. The research will draw upon findings from various humanities, especially from psychology, history, and art history. The dissertation will look at the semantics, principles, ways, transfers, and relations in which public space and art within it defines and reflects the "inner space" of people and society. The outcome of the dissertation will consist of paintings and theoretical work.

    Tutor: Mainer Martin, prof. akad. malíř

12. Strategies of Presentation

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    Tutor: Ruller Tomáš, prof. akad. soch.

13. The Body as Public Space

    This thematic area is devoted to basic contexts in which the human body works as a part of public space. The body is an instrument and object of various manipulations: aesthetic, political, social, historical, and economical. The theoretical part of the dissertation aims at deciphering historical context of understanding the body as public space, follow the formation and disappearance of body canons of various groups and cultures. It will also focus on the problematic of media manipulation and the change of human body into icon. The postgraduate student will draw information from and collaborate with other disciplines: social sciences, psychology, aesthetic surgery, and other areas which enable research via artwork and vice versa. The practical artistic outcome will materialize the state in which the intimate becomes the public.

    Tutor: Preková Jana, doc. Mgr.

14. The Mystery of Identity in Contemporary Art

    This topic is considered to be the essential one in the sense of identifying the experience of self-reflection in relation to the flow of public information. Not every piece of information is a taken-for-granted currency; not in public or in personal sense. The dissertation will attempt at disclosing these secrets. I hope it will bring forth a number of questions and answers for discussion.

    Tutor: Stratil Václav, doc., Prom. Ped.

15. Tutor: Rais Karel, prof. Ing., CSc., MBA, dr. h. c.

16. Tutor: Ruller Tomáš, prof. akad. soch.

17. Tutor: Sedlák Jan, prof. PhDr., CSc.