Dokument i kreacja artystyczna jako dopełniające się formy obrazowania rzeczywistości

Dokument i kreacja artystyczna jako dopełniające się formy obrazowania rzeczywistości
A document and artistic creation as mutually complementary forms of depicting reality

Contributor(s): Witold Jacyków (Editor), Karolina Tomczak (Editor)
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: photography; Digital Photography; pictorialism; certificate; continuous photography; document; Creation; documentation;painting;
Summary/Abstract: The book entitled A document and artistic creation as mutually complementary forms of depicting reality is a collection of authorial texts which in a different and multifaceted way deal with the universal and still troubling relation between a document and creation, signalling at the same time various understandings of these notions. It presents to readers, especially to those interested in contemporary art, up-to-date theoretical considerations and unique effects of artistic activities, both particularly focused on the analysis of documentary and creative specificity of photography but also on other artistic disciplines, including the current heterogeneous post-media art.

Series: Kultura, Sztuka, Muzyka

E-ISBN-13: 978-83-226-3537-7
Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-226-3536-0
Page Count: 192
Publication Year: 2018
Language: Polish

Instalacje Christiana Boltańskiego – dokument życia

Instalacje Christiana Boltańskiego – dokument życia
(Installations of Christian Boltański – A Record of Life)

Author(s):Karolina Tomczak
Language:Polish
Subject(s):Visual Arts
Page Range:9-30
No. of Pages:22
Keywords:Christian Boltański; installation; record; testimony; photography; Holocaust;avantgarde;
Summary/Abstract:The article Installations of Christian Boltański – A Record of Life concerns the contemporary art of that French creator, focused on the topic of testimony and recording. Referring to particular pieces of Boltański’s art. and adopting the methodological angle, the article discusses the meaning, role and ways of including records. This oscillation between testimony and creation is visible in the aforementioned installations, which utilize the photography of a (non)living man as well as ephemeral material, such as the audio recording of a beating heart. The author touches upon these records utilized by Boltański within the context of Charles S. Peirce’s and Roland Barthes’s sign, the theory of the simulacrum and hyperreality of Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida’s concept of aporia and Hal Foster’s traumatic realism and traumatic illusionism. The attempt at placing Boltański’s art between modernism and postmodernism consists in pointing to the similarities with minimalism, conceptualism as well as the quality of his contemporary installation. Meanwhile, Boltański’s fascination with Tadeusz Kantor and his coexistence alongside the Polish avantgarde post-Polish October art movement, which also made use of records, invite a certain analogy between the French creator of Jewish-Russian origins and Polish art. In this way, the text emphasizes the multiplicity of angles in the consideration of Boltański’s art of testimony, placing it in the broad context of recording the fleeting reality and human life, which characterize the art of the 20th century. In addition, it touches upon the question of the possibility of objectively reflecting reality, history and memory in the artistic medium at the same time as it establishes Boltański’s installations as new artistic testimony which invites cocreation of the testimony of its reception.

Price: 4.50 €

Pejzaże nadmiaru

Pejzaże nadmiaru
(The Landcapes of Excess)

Author(s):Agnieszka Jaworska
Language:Polish
Subject(s):Visual Arts
Page Range:31-59
No. of Pages:29
Keywords:landscape; black and white photography; Iceland; landscape photography; space; light; elements; geological phenomena
Summary/Abstract:The cycle of photographs emerged from the author’s fascination with the Icelandic landscapes, which reflect the personal longing for the beauty of uninhabited, non-urbanized nature, vast open spaces, far horizon and silence. The author attempts to convey the atmosphere of the island while avoiding excessive yet inevitable aesthetic. The photos are devoid of the characteristic color scheme, which allows to focus on the play of light across spaces and textures. All photographs are additionally devoid of human figures, so crucial in travel photography for the purposes of establishing scale. For that reason, the photographs seem more primal and difficult to place in time. The ultimate shape of the photographs is the result of a struggle with an excess of forms, colors and sensations; it is a creation which centers the feel of that incredible place and not only its visual reception.

Price: 4.50 €

Pomiędzy realnością i kreacją

Pomiędzy realnością i kreacją
(Between Reality and Creation)

Author(s):Roman Maciuszkiewicz
Language:Polish
Subject(s):Visual Arts
Page Range:61-66
No. of Pages:6
Keywords:philosophy
Summary/Abstract:To begin with, the article defines the concept of reality according to Leon Chwistek and asks a question concerning the possibility of interpreting the complexities of art from the point of view of philosophy. Referring back to the phenomenologists Henri Bergson and José Ortega y Gasset, the author emphasizes the facilitatingrole of philosophy in understanding the issues of art. Next, on the examples of Werner Herzog’s and Sebastião Salgado’s works, the article discusses film and photography, while Marcin Maciejowski’s works are used to discuss painting influenced by journalistic writing on social, political and cultural issues. Robert Kuśniewski’s works, in turn, become the starting point for a discussion concerning the boundary between documentary, fiction and creation in the arts. Towards the end of the article, the author provides a brief overview of his own works, with reference to the role of creation in the arts as well as broadlyunderstood spirituality.

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W stronę nie-oczywistości: między kreacją artystyczną a dokumentem

W stronę nie-oczywistości: między kreacją artystyczną a dokumentem
(Towards the Non-Obvious: Between Artistic Creation and Documentary)

Author(s):Ryszard Solik
Language:Polish
Subject(s):Visual Arts
Page Range:67-75
No. of Pages:9
Keywords:art; artistic creation; documentary; cultural context; interpretation; situational character of concretizations
Summary/Abstract:The following article constitutes an attempt at an analytical discussion concerning the categories of artistic creation and documentary, situated within the iconic scope of artistic expression. The angle which structures the entire argument as well as the presented conclusions are predicated on the conviction regarding the contextual character of any type of experience, which can be never concretized outside of a particular situation. As a result, the particular connotations and senses associated with certain concepts are never invariable and timeless, but rather inherently situational. To paraphrase: the temporality of the senses of an artistic or documentary creation appears to be perpetually shaped within the scope of a particular epistemic and discursive infrastructure, through which it is inevitably determined and updated at the same time.

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Fotografia ciągła

Fotografia ciągła
(Continuous Photography)

Author(s):Wojciech Kukuczka
Language:Polish
Subject(s):Visual Arts
Page Range:77-93
No. of Pages:17
Keywords:continuous photography; the moment of exposition; the deciding moment; photographic record; recording of the image; the process of photography; the process of developing photographs; uncaptured images
Summary/Abstract:The article analyzes phenomena associated with the process of photographic recording, in the moment between the opening and the closing of the shutter. On the basis of an authorial cycle, the article considers the advantages of creating the photographic picture in the context of autocreation, performativity and the developed conventions of reception. The discussed works have been created using an original artistic method, referred to in the text as “continuous photography.” This method conjoins the medium of photography and film, and its most important feature is the recording of a photographical nature, yet lacking one of the more important characteristics of photography — the stopping point. Artistic works created with the use of this method are developed on the basis of photographic stylistic devices; they are static, or at least passive, while at the same time capturing the ongoing process unfolding in front of the lens. They are liminally photographic, balancing on the brink of the deciding moment of the recording, while never crossing that boundary.

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