Peryferyjne centrum. Panoramy Tatr
Peripheral Centre. Panoramas of the Tatra Mts.

Summary/Abstract: The Tatra Mts. and their world at the onset of the twenty first century comprise a dense and vital net-work between the dimensions of historical existence (described by the French historian Fernand Braudel as longue durée structures, upturns and events). It is difficult to find on a map of Polish culture a place equally provincial and short-lived, about which so much has been written and which possesses such a copious iconography. The belles letrres, scientific writings, re-collections, the visual arts, architectural visions and realisations, photography, the cinema and music have recorded an intensive phenomenon endowed with extraordinary magnetism – the Tatra Mts., the town of Zakopane, and people circulating within Nature and Civilisation, comprehending, interpreting and designing. This event emerged unexpectedly in the last decades of the nineteenth century and is rapidly gaining assorted meanings.

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