Jeszcze o artyście (i sztuce): w literaturze, kulturze i nieopodal
A bit more on the artist (and the art): in literature, culture, and nearby
Author(s): Nina Nowara-Matusik
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Series: Kultura, Sztuka, Muzyka
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-226-3706-7
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-226-3705-0
- Page Count: 300
- Publication Year: 2019
- Language: Polish, German
Rzemieślnik czy artysta? Oswald von Wolkenstein a świat średniowiecznych twórców
Rzemieślnik czy artysta? Oswald von Wolkenstein a świat średniowiecznych twórców
(An artisan or an artist? Oswald von Wolkenstein and the world of medieval creators)
- Author(s):Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Sociology of Art
- Page Range:13-33
- No. of Pages:21
- Keywords:Oswald von Wolkenstein; artist; Middle Ages; innovativeness; self‑esteem; the sense of self‑worth;privacy;
- Summary/Abstract:The article endeavours – while utilizing methods elaborated in the field of comparative studies – to answer the following question: To what extent the position of medieval poet was similar or dissimilar to that of other creators of the same period: writers, but also architects and sculpturers? What creates a basis for this very inquiry is the analysis of Oswald von Wolkenstein’s works, who described his peregrinations across Europe, Asia, and Africa, during which he efficiently endorsed his artistic performances to foreign knights and kinglings and who, at the same time, may serve as an example of a typical man of his times according to opinions of medieval scholars.
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Postać artysty we współczesnej powieści historycznej Der Sünderchor Claudii i Nadji Beinert
Postać artysty we współczesnej powieści historycznej Der Sünderchor Claudii i Nadji Beinert
(The figure of an artist in a contemporary historical novel Der Sünderchor by Claudia and Nadja Beinert)
- Author(s):Elwira Poleszczuk
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Sociology of Art
- Page Range:35-50
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:Middle Ages; cathedral; individualism; contemporary historical novel
- Summary/Abstract:During the 12th century; a shift in mentality of medieval people occurred. An American scholar of the Middle Ages; Charles Homer Haskins underscored the foregoing fact already at the beginning of the 20th century indicating the development of individualism both in terms of legal system and religiosity. A similar shift can be observed in the art of that period; which transitions from typological to individualized approach and starts to emphasize not typical features but those of particular characters while capturing their idiosyncrasy. Also; change takes place when it comes to the position of an artist; who no longer remains an anonymous; humble artisan labouring for the greater glory of God; and instead; transforms into appreciated; renowned creator recognized by his name. The multifaceted shift in question is depicted in a historical novel Der Sünderchor [The Sinners Quire] by Claudia and Nadja Beinert. The artist presented therein; known as the Naumburg Master; creates the western quire of Naumburg Cathedral and embellishes it with statues of its ten founders which; due to their novel; individualised design; went down in history outshining their models.
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Czy Mozart w chwili śmierci naśladował kotły? Anegdoty w kontekście fikcji literackiej o Wolfgangu Amadeuszu Mozarcie
Czy Mozart w chwili śmierci naśladował kotły? Anegdoty w kontekście fikcji literackiej o Wolfgangu Amadeuszu Mozarcie
(Did Mozart, at the moment of his death, imitate drums? Anecdotes in the context of fiction inspired by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- Author(s):Katarzyna Szczerbowska-Prusevicius
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Sociology of Art
- Page Range:51-76
- No. of Pages:26
- Keywords:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; biographical fiction; anecdote; Wunderkind; prodigy;Requiem;
- Summary/Abstract:Although ubiquitous in biographies of famous people, anecdotes are considered as unreliable sources in the scholarly world. Since real‑life events closely weaved into fictive elements are considered characteristic for this brief literary genre, it is especially hard to untangle them, in fact it seems an unfeasible task. If, however, instead of asking how reliable those stories are, we ask what is their cultural‑mnemonic potential, they will prove to be a worthwhile research subject. In the present article, I look into the mentioned issue using two examples coming from the opulent repertoire of stories about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: one concerning his visit to the imperial court in Vienna, and another encompassing accounts of the composer’s final days (anecdotes on singing Requiem and imitating drums). The said stories are often included in fictional prose pieces about Mozart. Their authors put them in different contexts and narrate differently, underscoring or obfuscating their various aspects. Comparing several versions of the very same anecdote allows us to trace transmutations of the artist’s image, but to an extent, also of the way the world is seen.
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Artysta jako geniusz. Transmedialność i synestetyka u Heinricha Wackenrodera i Ludwiga Tiecka
Artysta jako geniusz. Transmedialność i synestetyka u Heinricha Wackenrodera i Ludwiga Tiecka
(An artist as a genius. Intermediality and Synaesthesia by Heinrich Wackenroder and Ludwig Tieck)
- Author(s):Hannelore Scholz-Lübbering
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Sociology of Art
- Page Range:77-93
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:intermediality; universal poetry; early Romanticism; medieval utopia; religion of art; genius
- Summary/Abstract:The contribution focuses on intermediality and synaesthesia in the early works of Heinrich Wackenroder and Ludwig Tieck. At the end of the 18th century, they developed their medieval utopias as an alternative draft to late Enlightenment in Berlin. In accordance with the theories of the brothers Schlegel, the novel is a romantic universal poetry for them, mixing genres and integrating criticism, reflection, science and art. The artist, as a genius, is portrayed as mediator between God and man, thus art becomes a religion. Outpourings of an Art‑Loving Friar and Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen (‚Sternbald’s walking tours‘) are interpreted as transmedial manifesto of Early Berlin Romanticism for literature, fine arts and music.
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„Niczym gwiazdy utkane naszymi dłońmi” – poeta jako stwórca świata i szukający Boga w utworach lirycznych Rainera Marii Rilkego i Oskara Loerkego
„Niczym gwiazdy utkane naszymi dłońmi” – poeta jako stwórca świata i szukający Boga w utworach lirycznych Rainera Marii Rilkego i Oskara Loerkego
(“Like stars that have floated out of our hands” – the poet as a Creator of the World and Seeking God in the Lyrics of Rainer Maria Rilke and Oskar Loerke)
- Author(s):Katrin Wellnitz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Sociology of Art
- Page Range:95-119
- No. of Pages:25
- Keywords:metaphysics; poetry; religion; creation; modernism; Rilke; Loerke
- Summary/Abstract:Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) and Oskar Loerke (1884–1941) both tried to express their relationship to the outside world in their poems and thereby went deep into their own inner world. In order to capture reality within their poems; they incorporated the surrounding nature; people and the major philosophical and metaphysical issues and transferred them into poetical language. Both of them were conscious of the creative dimensions of their work and therefore had to deal with religious issues. The central questions were: Am I a creator or a creation and what role might God – if there is one – play in this game of poetical creation that can suddenly become an existential game of life? Their autobiographical works illustrate their efforts and the despair that comes along with such a big task.This article elucidates the correlation between creative work and religious issues that is expressed in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Stunden‑Buch (1899–1905) and in the first five books of Oskar Loerke’s Siebenbuch (1911–1936). It exemplifies the creative effect of this metaphysical conflict and demonstrates how Rilke and Loerke dealt with those questions in a poetical way; how they embedded it into their poems. The connection between the phenomena of the outside world and the inside of the author’s intellectual world is displayed. The article finally relates their metaphysical and poetical thoughts to the prevalent intellectual tendencies in the era between the turn of the century and the early 1940s.
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„I dzisiaj znowu w strof czworokąty nieustępliwe rzeczy wtłaczać, wyginać, ciosać, przeistaczać” – kim jest poeta w twórczości Juliana Tuwima?
„I dzisiaj znowu w strof czworokąty nieustępliwe rzeczy wtłaczać, wyginać, ciosać, przeistaczać” – kim jest poeta w twórczości Juliana Tuwima?
(“And today again into the square of stanzas things tenaciously squash, bend, sculpt and modify…” Who is the poet in Julian Tuwim’s works?)
- Author(s):Emilia Drabik
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Sociology of Art
- Page Range:121-137
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:Tuwim; poet; artist; poetry; biography; creator; poem;
- Summary/Abstract:The present article analyses the image of a creator depicted in poems and other texts by Julian Tuwim; whose mission was to form and develop human identity and personality; “adding colour to the world”; transforming the mundane reality; the poet considering himself to be an artisan who likens the poetic act of creation to enormous physical effort; the artist of an ambivalent stance which constitutes the essence of his oeuvre; unaware of his own ingenuity; acknowledging the insufficiency of words; solitary in carrying his burden.
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Przybyszewski pisze Muncha – obraz artysty i jego twórczości w esejach Psychiczny naturalizm i Edward Munch
Przybyszewski pisze Muncha – obraz artysty i jego twórczości w esejach Psychiczny naturalizm i Edward Munch
(Przybyszewski writes Munch – the image of an artist and his oeuvre in essays Psychiczny naturalizm (Psychological naturalism) and Edward Munch)
- Author(s):Agnieszka Mazur
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Sociology of Art
- Page Range:139-158
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:image representation; artist’s self‑presentation; subject/object – text/image; ekphrasis in practice
- Summary/Abstract:The subject of this article is an analysis and interpretation of two essays by Stanisław Przybyszewski (i.e., Psychiczny naturalizm and Edward Munch) as a two‑part study of Edvard Munch’s oeuvre. What is the author’s intention here is reconstructing the image of Munch as an artist portrayed in Przybyszewski’s texts, to subsequently emphasize the tension sustaining therein between the representation of the Norwegian artist’s paintings and the self‑presentation by the writer. The final part of the article focuses on the study of ekphrasis as practiced by Przybyszewski, namely, a space of developing relationship between image and discourse.
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Georg Büchner i Stanisława Przybyszewska o roli i zadaniach twórcy
Georg Büchner i Stanisława Przybyszewska o roli i zadaniach twórcy
(Georg Büchner and Stanisława Przybyszewska on the role and tasks of a creator)
- Author(s):Marta Krystyna Tylkowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Sociology of Art
- Page Range:159-175
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:literature; art; creator; polemic
- Summary/Abstract:A literary piece which impressed Stanisława Przybyszewska the most; was Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner. She claimed that having read it significantly influenced her decision to give up painting career and take up literature instead. Przybyszewska’s particular literary interests happened to coincide with Büchner’s. Thermidor written by her in German; is both a continuation and a polemical piece in relation to Danton’s Death; whereas in The Danton Case she dramatized exactly the same theme as Büchner had. In the light of such close creative kinship; it strikes that the two writers held so divergent views on literature and; as a consequence; on the role; tasks; and obligations of its creators. They expressed their views; most of all; in letters; but also in their literary pieces (e.g. Büchner in Lenz; Przybyszewska in Twórczość Gerarda Gasztowta [The Creation of Gerard Gasztowt]). According to Büchner; the writer (dramatist poet; artist) should depict the world “as it is;” yet in Przybyszewska’s opinion a person of letters (who is more than just an artist) treats the world as an “imperfect base product” which is capable of being transformed into a nobler end product in someone’s oeuvre. The both stances seem contradictory and irreconcilable; yet they had some intersection points.The present article juxtaposes the views by Przybyszewska and Büchner on literature; searches for an origin of those views; and attempts to present them as a polemic providing a comprehensive image of a creator.
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Wokół Künstlerin(nen)roman – kilka uwag na przykładzie tekstów Heleny Orlicz‑Garlikowskiej i L. Andro
Wokół Künstlerin(nen)roman – kilka uwag na przykładzie tekstów Heleny Orlicz‑Garlikowskiej i L. Andro
(On Künstlerin(nen)roman – a few remarks with reference to texts by Helena Orlicz‑Garlikowska and L. Andro)
- Author(s):Nina Nowara-Matusik
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Sociology of Art
- Page Range:177-195
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:female artist’s novel; actress; modernism; women’s writing;
- Summary/Abstract:The article is mainly concerned with the question of Künstlerin(nen)roman – the novel on female artist(s). Terminological; definition‑related issues are pondered in part one of the text; whereas part two is devoted to the comparative analysis of two texts: Nie‑Komediantka penned by Konstancja Piskorska (under a pseudonym: Helena Orlicz‑Garlikowska) and Die Komödiantin Dora X. by an Austrian author Therese Rie (L. Andro). The gender‑focused analysis is centred upon a motif common for the two mentioned texts; that of an actress.
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Udział cenzury w procesie twórczym na przykładzie Szopki 1956 Ryszarda Wierzbowskiego i Marka Grońskiego
Udział cenzury w procesie twórczym na przykładzie Szopki 1956 Ryszarda Wierzbowskiego i Marka Grońskiego
(Censorship office’s contribution to the creative process based on Szopka 1956 by Ryszarda Wierzbowski and Marek Groński)
- Author(s):Katarzyna Smyczek
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Sociology of Art
- Page Range:197-217
- No. of Pages:21
- Keywords:censorship after 1945; satirical szopka; satire; Ryszard Marek Polish People’s Republic; political thaw 1955–1956
- Summary/Abstract:This study focuses on the role played by the Polish People’s Republic censorship officials in the writing process of satirical texts. What constitutes research material here is documetation of censoring interventions (redactions) carried out by the Łódź Voivodeship Control Office relating to Szopka 1956 (lit. ‛Crib 1956’); political satire written by Ryszard Wierzbowski and Marek Groński. The article aims at describing the subterfuges used by both the satirists to compel readers; but also; to an extent; to recreate the primary version of the censored text; by working out a peculiar palimpsest – “scratching away” the censor’s pencil. An important aspect of this study is also a comprehensive editorial commentary allowing to reconstruct meanings that otherwise could not been grasped by today’s readers; which stems from the text’s embeddedness in the realities of socialist state.
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Artysta wobec władzy w systemie autorytarnym – studium przypadku NRD
Artysta wobec władzy w systemie autorytarnym – studium przypadku NRD
(An artist vs. authorities in an authoritarian state – case study of DDR)
- Author(s):Magdalena Latkowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Sociology of Art
- Page Range:219-235
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:DDR; artists; literature; politics; authorities;
- Summary/Abstract:The article analyses the factors impacting literary circles in DDR (German Democratic Republic) from the side of communist authorities and, resultantly, the self‑control mechanisms of the said environment, which are classified by the author. Counted among the “positive” aspects of the mentioned impact are the political framework of creative process and generational structure. The former is claimed to be a kind of ideological “universe”, moulding literary content and writers’ political activity, whereas the latter along with its psychological ramifications are assumed to be an example of self‑control mechanism (self‑censorship) utilised primary by writers themselves, especially those of the second generation. Among “negative” means are enumerated: coercion in a form of soft (rewards/awards), semi‑hard (punishments), and outright hard (repressions) measures, which are substantiated by particular examples. All the described factors are given in a contents of artists’ personal views, their position in society and artistic environment, and decision made by them which resulted from the said factors (emigration). The analysis is accompanied by accounts of fate of DDR’s literary society form the World War II until the breakthrough year of 1989.
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Franz Fühmann – twórca przegrany?
Franz Fühmann – twórca przegrany?
(Franz Fühmann – a lost creator?)
- Author(s):Małgorzata Dubrowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Sociology of Art
- Page Range:237-250
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:writing of Franz Fühmann; lost creator; truth;testament;
- Summary/Abstract:The starting point of the reflections of the author of the text entitled “Franz Fühmann – a lost creator?” is a testament of Fühmann; in which the gravely ill creator admits that he had failed as both a human being and writer. By means of an analysis and interpretation of the writings by Franz Fühmann ‒ starting from a selected prose; letters; autobiographical statements and concentrating on the essays focusing on the problems related to the author/ creator and creativity; citing the statements of his student Uwe Kolbe ‒ the author crafts a portrait of an artistic human being; who sought the truth and was devoted to the literature.
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„O szaleństwie rozprawiania o obrazach” – rozmowa o sztuce jako paradygmat dyskursu artystycznego w powieści Friederike Mayröcker brütt oder Die seufzenden Gärten
„O szaleństwie rozprawiania o obrazach” – rozmowa o sztuce jako paradygmat dyskursu artystycznego w powieści Friederike Mayröcker brütt oder Die seufzenden Gärten
(„The madness of talking about pictures” – the art talk as a paradigm of artist discourse in Friederike Mayröcker’s novel brütt or The Sighing Gardens)
- Author(s):Beate Sommerfeld
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Sociology of Art
- Page Range:251-272
- No. of Pages:22
- Keywords:Friederike Mayröcker; visual art; ekphrasis; intermediality; talk about art
- Summary/Abstract:The article deals with the intermedial references in the narrative texts by an Austrian writer Friederike Mayröcker. On the example of the novel brutt or The sighing gardens (1998) it is demonstrated that Mayröcker; when speaking about art; refers to the Romantic art theory and in particular to the literary tradition of the Kunstgespräch (discussion of art); as developed by August Wilhelm Schlegel and Georg Büchner. Mayröcker’s art discussions are influenced by poststructuralist thought; which postulates the impossibility to establish a stable relation between sign and meaning. Poststructuralist scepticism also affects the visual arts; which are no longer the site of truth. The genuine Romantic discussion of art is radicalized in a highly performative language of folly; which can be conveyed as symptomatic for the crisis of meaning.
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Artyści filmowi a terroryzm RAF: Gudrun Ensslin, Bernward Vesper i Andreas Baader w filmie Andresa Veila Jeśli nie my, to kto?
Artyści filmowi a terroryzm RAF: Gudrun Ensslin, Bernward Vesper i Andreas Baader w filmie Andresa Veila Jeśli nie my, to kto?
(Film auteurs and RAF terrorism: Gudrun Ensslin, Bernward Vesper, and Andreas Baader as portrayed in Andres Veiel’s If Not Us, Who?)
- Author(s):Marek Kryś
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Sociology of Art
- Page Range:273-291
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:students’ protests in Germany; terrorism; RAF; the German Autumn; Ensslin Gudrun (1940‒1977); Vesper Bernward (1938‒1971); Veiel Andres (1959‒)
- Summary/Abstract:After a brief outline of RAF history and presenting the most important documentary and fictional films dealing with the subject in question, the author carries out an analysis of If Not Us, Who? (Wer wenn nicht wir, 2011) directed by Andres Veiel. What makes this film different from the previously described ones is the period covered, which is precedent to the times of RAF creation, and thereby the film considers the question whether another course of events could have been possible. While analysing the film, the author focuses on its key moments, attempting to reconstruct the reasons behind the forming of RAF, and he argues that the would‑be terrorists were intellectuals and, by the same token, artists (when assuming a broad definition of the term).
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