Gesamtkunstwerk w dobie postmodernizmu. Peter Greenaway i walizki Tulse'a Lupera
Gesamtkunstwerk in the Postmodern Era. Peter Greenaway and Tulse Luper Suitcases

Summary/Abstract: The article is about the “Tulse Luper Suitcases” multimedia art project by Peter Greenaway. The project includes films, books, exhibitions, web pages, an on-line game and a gamut of theatre productions. Michnik wonders whether and in what way may this ambitious project be considered a contemporary example of Gesamtkunstwerk. Following Odo Marquard, Michnik analyses various ways of understanding of this concept, and asks whether in the world dominated by the aesthetics of the fragmentary, a total art work has a raison d’ętre. In the second part of the article the author presents various meanings of the project, and reveals systems used by Greenaway in the realization of the project and the materials used for its construction. Then the author places the project in the context of the 20th century art initiatives, with particular attention given to the meaning of the topos of the suitcase.

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