This paper is a contribution to the contemporary discussions around architectural materialities and the history of the immediate post-war period in the urban areas of Europe. The opening paragraphs include references to...
Stanisław Wyspianski’s tragedy, Protesilaus and Laodamia (1899), is about the toxicity of
excessive illusiveness and constitutes the artist’s elucidation of a lethal image. The magic
that linked Laodamia with the wax sim...
Music was commonly regarded as one of the most powerful arts. In line with a very long
tradition reaching back to the Pythagoreans and to Plato and Aristotle, it was its blend of
mathematical structure and unusual power...
The present work focuses on the motif of aggression against icons introduced in the works by many Russian writers before the Revolution. Analysed material includes the works of Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai...
The exhibition entitled The Family of Man, which was designed by Edward Steichen and
presented for the fi rst time in 1955 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, belongs
to the most famous and most controversial photog...
Rubble Warsaw, 1945–1946: Urban Landscaping and Architectural Remains
This paper is a contribution to the contemporary discussions around architectural materialities and the history of the immediate post-war period in the urban areas of Europe. The opening paragraphs include references to...
Two to Achieve a Visible Alliance: On the Choreography of Stanisław Wyspiański’s Vision
Stanisław Wyspianski’s tragedy, Protesilaus and Laodamia (1899), is about the toxicity of excessive illusiveness and constitutes the artist’s elucidation of a lethal image. The magic that linked Laodamia with the wax sim...
Music and Its Images as a Source of a Creative Myth
Music was commonly regarded as one of the most powerful arts. In line with a very long tradition reaching back to the Pythagoreans and to Plato and Aristotle, it was its blend of mathematical structure and unusual power...
The Icon and the Hatchet. The Motif of Aggression Against Icons in Russian Literature before the Revolution
The present work focuses on the motif of aggression against icons introduced in the works by many Russian writers before the Revolution. Analysed material includes the works of Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai...
The Family of Man in Poland: An Exhibition as a Democratic Space?
The exhibition entitled The Family of Man, which was designed by Edward Steichen and presented for the fi rst time in 1955 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, belongs to the most famous and most controversial photog...