Szczuka, Strzemiński, Themersonowie i polska poezja XX wieku
Szczuka, Strzemiński, the Themersons, and Polish Twentieth-Century Poetry

Summary/Abstract: This article is an analysis of three visual literary publications: Anatol Stern’s Europa, JulianPrzyboś’s Sponad (lit. Fromabove), and Stefan Themerson’s visual essay “Kurt Schwitterson a Time Chart.” The initial conviction that there is a fundamental aesthetic differencebetween these major artistic achievements is clarified by indicating two differentconcepts of art and approaches to the artistic medium that found the artists’ activities.While typographically developing Przyboś’s collection, Strzemiński seeks artisticuniformity and preserved the linguistic-semantic order of poetry, the other two find new(media, sign) environments for poetry: Szczuka when composing photo collages in Stern’sEuropa, and Themerson when working according to the idea of polymediality. The lattertwo do not limit themselves to traditionally understood intermediality/intersemiotics– in which there is an exchange of properties between codes or sign systems – but theydesign various other relations between the elements of their artistic objects.

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