Partytura "Umarłej klasy" jako strategia komunikacyjna
The Score of "The Dead Class" as a Communication Strategy

Summary/Abstract: This text is part of a project focused on: The artist as a text. The identity construct of the director as a commentary on theatrical activity, and thus is part of an analysis of the communication strategies applied by Tadeusz Kantor. The author concentrated his attention analysing the score of The Dead Class, which reflects and intermingles prime problems associated with the self-commentary by the recognised artist. On the one hand, the ensuing analysis involved aesthetic transformations connected with inter-semiotic transcription, the translation of one domain of the arts into another (as in the case of a record of a theatrical spectacle). On the other hand, the very structure of a text wavering between a record and a literary work appears to be interesting. Kantor made full use of recording the text (the score is composed of many different literary genres). Another question involves self-commentary – the way in which the artist becomes part of the currently emerging world reception of the work. There occurs a trend towards explaining that is evidently restricted. All these issues were analysed from the viewpoint of the author who became world famous thanks to this work. The way in which biographical questions are mixed with aesthetic ones becomes evident.

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