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Autokreacja jako zamazanie umysłu
Self-Creation as Blurring of The Mind

Author(s): Ewa Bobrowska
Subject(s): Sociology of Art
Published by: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Eugeniusza Gepperta we Wrocławiu
Keywords: AUTOKREACJA; AUTOPORTRET; SAMOŚWIADOMOŚĆ; SCEPTYCYZM; DE MAN; SZTUKA; SELF-CREATION; SELF-PORTRAIT; SELF-AWARENESS; SKEPTICISM; DE MAN; ART

Summary/Abstract: The analysis in the text presented concerns the phenomenon of self-creation and self-perception, referring Paul de Man’s contemplations in theAutobiography as De-facement study, as well as early monography by Emmanuel Levinas, From Existence to Existents. Self-creational and autobiographical statement or action reveal moments in which a certain multithreading is exposed, a tear, which becomes a basis for the analysis ofworks by Chuck Close, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly and Marina Abramović. Selfperception and self-introspection lay at grassroots of thinking and artisticcreativity, and in a way also self-mythology of solipsistic ego. By creatinga self-portrait the artist duels oneself in a most difficult self-creative clash.Impersonal “I” as another form of revealing “I”, it exposes through, amongothers, vigil and insomnia as a particular state of mind, similar to de Man’s“blurring” of the mind described by me.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 27
  • Page Range: 126-145
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish
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