The history of land art in the Czech Republic

This bachelor thesis is about the history of land art in the Czech Republic, and focuses on the contemporary views on the problems of the development of land art in the Czech Republic from the point of view of professional literature. It is a summary of theoretical starting points for this given theme. The main goal of this thesis is to create an integrated overview of contemporary literature about a specific theme. No article focusing on this has been published to this day. Czech land art has always been only briefly outlined in a few paragraphs of art history books, and this only in the case where it was the resulting development of a specific artistic event. However, the details have never been described, that is why the focus of this thesis is important, mainly for the integrated overview of this category of Czech art. Land art is a type of art which is realized out in the open country, which is why the first chapter of the literary research describes the value of the open country as such, and also in terms of the history of the art, in which it was diversely preceived. Land art is actually the first branch of art which does not attempt to depict the country, but instead works with it. That is why land art is important, as it exemplifies a new manner of perceiving artistic expression, where it does not revolve around creating traditional pieces to be displayed in galleries. The next chapter is consecrated to the description of the origins and development of land art in the world for the general purposes of an integrated overview. This chapter is important for reasons of comparisons of the approach to land art in the Czech Republic as opposed to that in the rest of the world. This difference is also influenced by differences of cultural and political natures, which are also outlined in this chapter. The following chapters describe the development of Czech land art with a focus on the artistic events from which it arose. The final part of this thesis discusses specific Czech artists and their pieces. Famous Czech land artists such as Ivan Kafka, Zorka Ságlová, Miloš Šejn and some others can be found among them