W modnym kostiumie Fauna. Postacie „fauniczne” w literaturze i sztuce przełomu XIX i XX wieku oraz ich wpływ na kulturę współczesną
Wearing the En-Vogue Faun Costume. ‘Faunic’ Characters in Literature and Arts of Late 19th/20th Century and Their Influence on Contemporary Culture

Summary/Abstract: The book is a review of the achievements of Polish and West-European artists from the late 19th and early 20th century – men-of-letters, musicians and visual artists – taking up ‘Faunic’ motifs (i.e. related to the figures of Faun, Pan, Satyr, and Silenus). The examples include: Arnold Böcklin, Franz von Stuck, Stéphane Mallarmé, Claude Debussy, Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, José-Maria de Hérédia, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri de Régnier, Angiolo Orvieto, Aleister Crowley, Georg Trakl, Anatole France. The evaluation of popularity of the said motifs leads to understanding of the transformations of the antique myths that take place in our contemporary culture. Since ‘faunicity’ has penetrated into the mass imagination within a rather short time, resulting from its popularisation in literature and arts, becoming fashionable in the popular culture, the subject of the present considerations includes a tension between the ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture.

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