Archiwum prywatne Olgi Boznańskiej
Olga Boznańska’s Private Archive

Summary/Abstract: In the first part of this article, Wilczak reflects on the concept of the private archive and the specificity of researching a deceased person’s personal estate. The following sections focus on the library’s text-centric attitude and the museum’s ocularcentric attitude. These, Wilczak argues, influence the attribution of value to the material form of objects from the archive of Olga Boznańska, a Polish painter of the turn of the twentieth century. Referring to the archive’s “biography,” Wilczak takes into account the intertwining of form, function and meaning of objects and their use in cultural practices of preservation (conservation) and exposure to public view (exhibition).

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