Człowiek z mitu. Uświęcone oblicza gniewu (Leszek Sobocki, Grzegorz Klaman – Lech Wałęsa w obrazach)
The Man and the Myth. Sanctified Faces of Anger (Leszek Sobocki, Grzegorz Klaman – Lech Wałęsa in Images)

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the images of Lech Wałęsa. Portraits by Leszek Sobocki(The Worker ’81 I–III, 1982) and Grzegorz Klaman’s installations (The Transparent,2010; Here Is the Head of a Traitor, 2015) become the starting point for reflectionon the process of mythologizing the leader of Solidarity that started in August 1980(the allegoric portraits of The Worker by Sobocki kept in the tradition of the PolishBaroque), and of destroying his myth in post-transformation Poland (Klaman).The iconological analysis of the works by Sobocki and Klaman has identified therole of political and religious functionalization of rage (Peter Sloterdijk) in shapingthe image of Wałęsa in public life and visual art representations.

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