Oręż czy niewiadoma? Wydarzenia roku 1968 i wyłonienie się estetyczno-politycznego
Weapon or Question? The Events of 1968 and the Emergence of the Aesthetico-Political

Summary/Abstract: Articulating the political and emancipatory potential of creative practice, and focusing on the relationship between the visual arts and the student protests in 1968 can be described as the emergence of the aesthetic-political. An example is the work of Wolf Vostell and Jean-Jacques Lebel, whose artistic practice during the late 1960s and 1970s was intended to merge the boundaries of art and life. Such an approach to the event is dictated by various forms of artistic and political activity, political demonstrations and their hybrids – happenings. Events perpetuate the impossibility of exhaustive analysis, which means that their expression itself become a form of event.

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