Witkacy’s Amusia

Witkacy suffered from amusia as a child and as an adult person. He was seriously interested in music only for a little over twenty years (1890–1914?). He wrote his main works as an amusic. The relation between amusia and metaphysical feelings may suggest that Witkacy wrote dramas and created painting compositions in order to evoke the lost strangeness of being. Amusia could have also been the reason for Witkacy’s ambiguity – he was defending and degrading high art at the same time

Tuwim and Witkacy: Visual Translation of 'Kalinowe dwory'

The article offers a comparative analysis of a lost painting by Witkacy (know only from a photographic reproduction) and a poem by Julian Tuwim. Tuwim’s poem inspired Witkacy to create his work. The poem is used by the author as a model for interpreting philosophical aspects of Witkacy’s painterly composition, offering a concluding remark that the visual translation of the poem reflects Witkacy’s aesthetic philosophy. The article also provides an new way of reading Tuwim’s poetry in which the painterly aspect of his writing is being particularly exposed.Zadanie „Stworzenie anglojęzycznych wersji wydawanych publikacji” finansowane w ramach umowy nr 948/P-DUN/2016 ze środków Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę

Tuwim’s Dialogues with Banality

The article examines the relation between Tuwim’s poetry and modern colloquial language. The avant-garde artists for whom in the beginning of the 20th-century art was an elite occupation, treated every-day speech as a mass form of communication. Tuwim’s poetry was frequently criticised for banality. Matywiecki presents the poet as a hero fighting with the demon of commonness. The crucial thesis of the article is that banality which is modified in a creative way says more about the epoch than elitist visions. In his poetry, satire and cabaret work Tuwim transformed triviality into dialog and a common human being into a creative person. Transition of the street talk into original speech is the defence against reducing individual being to cliché which means the fear of 20th-century killing ideologies.Zadanie „Stworzenie anglojęzycznych wersji wydawanych publikacji” finansowane w ramach umowy nr 948/P-DUN/2016 ze środków Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę

Goll i Witkacy: między ekspresjonizmem a surrealizmem

Studiując dzieła, a nade wszystko teksty teoretyczne Yvana Golla i Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza, trudno nie zwrócić uwagi na wiele punktów wspólnych pomiędzy tymi wielkimi twórcami teatru. O ile Polak znał ponad wszelką wątpliwość surrealizm i wiele innych izmów panujących w Europie pierwszych dziesięcioleci XX wieku, o tyle Alzatczyk pochodzenia żydowskiego z pewnością nie miał możliwości zapoznania się z dokonaniami propagatora Czystej Formy. Niemniej, obaj stworzyli podobne, choć nieco różniące się między sobą, dwie estetyki teatralne, które wpisują się w Wielką Reformę Teatralną, i czynili to w tym samym czasie. Choć te dwie silne osobowości artystyczne nie znały się, to jednak wypracowały analogiczną nowatorską formułę ekspresji, zrodzoną w tyglu wielokulturowości, jakim była w owych czasach awangardowa Europa.Studying works, especially theoretical texts of Yvan Goll and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz it is difficult not to pay attention to many common points between these two great creators of the theatre. Supposing the Pole knew beyond a reasonable doubt surrealism and many other “isms” prevailing in Europe in the first decades of the twentieth century, it is quite sure that the Alsatian with Jewish origins did not have the opportunity to get acquainted with the achievements of the initiator of the Pure Form. Nevertheless, they both created the two similar, but slightly different from each other, theatrical aesthetics, which constitute a part of the Great Theatre Reform and they did it at the same time. Although these two strong artistic personalities did not know each other, they have developed an analogous innovative formula of expression, created in the crucible of multiculturalism, which at that time was the avant-garde Europe

Towards the Modern Alternative Theatre in Poland – Selected Issues

The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist them in their studies of the course module and encourage further search for relevant information and data. The papers collected in the book have been authored by academic teachers from the University of Łódź, specialists in such fields as history, geography, literature, sociology, ethnology, cultural studies, and political science. Each author presents one chapter related to a topic included in the module or extending its contents. The book contains the extensive bibliography

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz: la Forma Pura en la vanguardia del teatro europeo de entreguerras.

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