Malarstwo materii a powojenne przemiany dzieła sztuki
Matter Painting and the Shifts in the Ontology of Art after World War II

Summary/Abstract: Matter painting is interpreted in this article as a turning point in the developmentof the art history after modernism. We start from the analysis of the trauma that isdepicted in the abstract painting of Malewicz and Kandinsky. The drama of the WorldWar I is presented in the structure of “Black Square on the White Field” (1915) becauseof its radical lack of the figuration, that shows the traumatic gap in the historyand narration ( as history develops always between the representations of certainfigures). Then we turn to the cultural shifts inscribed in the matter painting and itsstructure of the signifiants, and interpret it in the terms of Lacanian psychoanalysis.Finally, we conceive of a parallel between the shits in the notion of sign in the modernand postmodern philosophy and the ontological changes of the work of art in abstractand matter painting.

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