Art Philosophy: The Multi-Layered Biography of Dogu Bankov
Art Philosophy: The Multi-Layered Biography of Dogu Bankov

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to disclose art philosophy, which is behind the literary story and collage pictures of the Bulgarian artist, Dogu Bankov. The author of this article analyzes the relationship between the narrative about Dogu Bankov in literature and in the visual arts, namely, in the exhibited pictures in the collage genre, and in the multi-layered, highly cosmopolitan biography of Dogu Bankov. Topophilia in Paris, also in Bulgarian town Plovdiv, and in Lithuanian town Kaunas is an inseparable part of Bankov’s biography along with the documentary resurrection of true interwar intellectuals of those cities. The biography serves as a plethora of cross-cultural references to true writers and artists even if the biography of Bankov is artistically created.

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