Twórca wobec czasu, w którym technologia przerosła świadomość
An Artist in the Face of the Times. When Technology Excelled Human Consciousness

Author(s): Maciej Linttner
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The text presents deliberations of a painter on the individual aspect of a creative process.The author asks a provocative question whether everything that is presently created may beconsidered as art. At the obtained level of collective (or tribal) evolution, we have reached thestate of lack of balance between technological capacities and the development of individuality.According to the author, collective actions rarely bring sensible results. With noticeable concern,the author observes the contemporary plethora of images, chaos and haste, yet he concludesthat time is, and will be, the final verifier of values. He opts for the attitude that aims at savingindividual human dignity which may be found in the sense of responsibility and in the desire tosearch for truth. At the end of the article a question and a thesis are formulated, which regardthe conformity between ideological and artistic choices.

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