Artyści modernistyczni jako mniejszość
Modernist artists as a minority

Author(s): Gabriela Matuszek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Sociology of the arts, business, education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: artist;early modernism;bohemians;minority;elitism of art
Summary/Abstract: In the text Modernist artists as a minority G. Matuszek tries to apply the category of minorities to artistic groups, focusing primarily on the situation of artists of early modernism captured in broader contexts. The author shows that artistic environments are often in a “minority situation”, although this minority fulfills only some elements of the ‘hard’ definitions. Psychological dimension plays a significant role here — the subjective feeling of ‘being a minority’ and the expression of distinctiveness, and the linking factors include recognizing the world in the state of crisis, alienation and (self)exclusion, anthropological similarity (theories of higher evolutionary development) etc

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