Avant-garde artist – between the all-too-human and the inhuman. Towards anthropological aesthetics Cover Image

Artysta awangardowy - między arcyludzkim a nieludzkim. Próba estetyki antropologicznej
Avant-garde artist – between the all-too-human and the inhuman. Towards anthropological aesthetics

Author(s): Magdalena Popiel
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Aesthetics; Anthropology; Modernism; Avant-garde

Summary/Abstract: This article outlines a project of anthropological aesthetics as the area of interdisciplinary investigations. Anthropological aesthetics takes the advantage of narrativism methodology in order to analyse the condition of creative individual (the idea of genius) who is self-creating whilst being created through stories told by the others. The article’s central thread is a characteristics of avant-garde artists’ narratives of artistic experiences, set in the context of anti-anthropocentric issues.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 49-74
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish
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