With Witkacy through Croatia in five images

Abstract

The article concerns the reconstruction of the “Croatian intertext” of the renowned Polish playwright, novelist, painter, philosopher and photographer Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, better known under the pseudonym Witkacy, while focusing on the five images in which an imago of various dimensions of his presence is being displayed. Witkacy appears in each one of these as a person - as a young emerging artist, an engaged artist - playwright and inventor of the so-called theory of the Pure Form, an object of the theatrical reception, and, finally, an artist indicating a wider content pertaining to our culture and civilization. Each of these images is marked by its own native context, but considered in their presupposed wholeness they can lay a framework for a wholistic reception of Witkiewicz in Croatia

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