Człowieczeństwo w wizji polskich twórców awangardowych doby dwudziestolecia międzywojennego. Kilka uwag i refleksji
Humanity in view of the Polish avant-garde authors of the interwar period. Some notes and reflections

Summary/Abstract: The article presents some comments and thoughts on the nature and uniqueness of humanity in view of the Polish avant-garde authors of the interwar period. The last of them opted for applying tools and techniques of ‘modern’ life, which was intensive, ‘energetic’ but lacking a specific spiritual sphere, in ideological and artistic work. They were characterized by reluctance to thinking over the form and significance of the inherited cultural output in a serious and intellectually deep manner and to undertake any actions which might result with its further development. Humanity in the works of the interwar avant-gardists was undermined and lost its subjectivity. The avant-garde art was successively becoming transcendental and was moving towards the borders of the sphere of humanity. Its representatives were looking for such topics and forms which could capture changes taking place in this sphere. These changes resulted mainly in conditions of a subjective ‘vanishing’ of a human individual, uncertainty concerning the level and scope of ‘possession’ of oneself and the ‘suspension’ of one’s identity in as if nobody’ s space. Consequently, the art, just like human being, was moving away from something which could genuinely strengthen and intensify humanity as well as would allow to distinguish it from its ‘environment’, from the collection of other beings and to ‘bring it out’ from the stream of ‘energy’.

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