From Futurist to Imperialist: Stanisław Grędziński’s Case Cover Image
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Od futurysty do mocarstwowca. Przypadek Stanisława Grędzińskiego
From Futurist to Imperialist: Stanisław Grędziński’s Case

Author(s): Aleksandra Wójtowicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Stanisław Grędziński; futurism; avant-garde; Legia Mocarstwowa; imperialism;

Summary/Abstract: Wójtowicz analyses Stanisław Grędziński’s literary and journalistic work to discuss therelationship between radical modernist art and the politics of the interwar era. The focusis on the transition from the futurist discourse to an imperialist discourse. Wójtowiczdemonstrates how Grędziński’s futurist rhetorics became enmeshed with the imperialistproject with its relativist historical politics, an instrumentalisation of Catholicism, themilitarisation of exercise and pedagogy, biopolitical practices as well as the slogan ofcultural expansion.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 290-304
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish