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Blinding After-images

Summary/Abstract: An article by Andrzej Turowski on the spectacle and the invention, and the spread of stereoscopy. Turowski writes that the optical apparatus, much like the spectacle, altered the relationship between the viewer and the object. The author also mentions the landscape paintings of William Turner, introducing the concept of éblouissement, which means both to illuminate and to blind, “concerning the perception of light, the source of whose glow (...) both fascinates and engenders a physical pain in the eyes and body, a mental repulsion, and is unbearable.” Turowski analyzes Władysław Strzemiński’s To My Jewish Friends montage series and Tadeusz Kantor’s Theater of Death in this context.

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