Święty Jan od Krzyża, Wojtyła i Grotowski: Ku sztuce numinotycznej
Saint John of the Cross, Wojtyła, and Grotowski: Towards a Numinous Art

Summary/Abstract: This article posits that in Karol Wojtyła’s and Jerzy Grotowski’s thinking about art, it is possible to identify commonalities by which their aesthetic and ethical concepts can be associated with the work of John of the Cross. The author argues that in both cases, the link might be the writings and views of Polish theater artists fascinated by John of the Cross: Juliusz Osterwa and Mieczysław Kotlarczyk. She offers a comparative analysis of selected aspects of the writings of Wojtyła, Grotowski, and John of the Cross, revealing similarities and differences in their understanding of art, and highlighting elements characteristic of the aesthetics of performativity. Interpreting terminological convergences in the analysed texts, she focuses on concepts concerning the aims of art and the methods of achieving these aims. She tries to demonstrate that all three authors variously employed performativity and the epiphanic character of art in exploring human experiences concerning the sphere of numinosum.

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