Widzenie ześrodkowane, ogląd, epopteia O twórczości naukowej Wiesława Juszczaka.
Concentrated Vision, Perception, Epopteia. On the Scholarly Output of Wiesław Juszczak

Summary/Abstract: The scholarly output of Wies3aw Juszczak (1932–2021) is very diverse with regard to both the range of topics and the conceptual approaches to particular issues; yet it is possible to discern in it certain permanent themes, a desire to revisit fundamental problems, such as the role of the imagi- nation in historical cognition and artistic creativity, the origins of art and of its cognitive pursuits, or the significance of the relationship between the word and the image (in ecphrasis, in art criti- cism). Those issues he approached sometimes in articles of a methodological nature, sometimes in incomparable interpretations of particular artworks and artists, and sometimes – with time, incre- asingly frequently – in essayistic texts that had the quality of philosophical deliberations. Wies3aw Juszczak’s scholarly achievements allow us to see him as a historian and at the same time a philo- sopher of art, endowed with an originality of thought and a masterful form of its expression, an exceptional authority on the art of European Romanticism and Symbolism, a tireless hunter for the beginnings of artistic creation in the culture of archaic Greece, and a humanist worthy of this name in the highest degree.

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