Město jako obraz. Kutná Hora

• Main Author: Altová, Blanka
• Other Authors: Havelka, Miloš
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: Czech
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-281296

Blanka Altová: Abstrakt disertační práce, FHS UK Praha. Katedra obecné antropologie The city as an image. Kutna Hora. To view and interpret a historical city as an image is a way of finding relationship to past from the position of presence and uncovering the ties of the physical and existential understanding of the city. At the same time using the concept of the image I want to clearly express that i talk about the physical (not social) image of the city. Physical image, namely architecture and spatial organization of cities I perceive as sources in situ and, in accordance with the art historian Pierre Francastel, as a result and part of system of figurative expression (thinking through image), which was established and developed parallel with the intellectual system. From the viewpoint of the presence the past of the city can be seen through prism of different concepts. I choose the concept of collective memory (Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Nora), because I'm interested in not only what really happened but also what did not and should have or could have happened. I use the iconographic analysis and iconological methods of art history for content-interpretation of the symbolic meanings of architecture, urban planning and urban themes (in painting, drawing, in relief). I choose these subjects because of their...