O Czystej Formie

by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

36 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1921

About the author

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (24 February 1885 – 18 September 1939), commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, playwright, novelist, and photographer active in the interwar period.
Born in Warsaw, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz was a son of the painter, architect and an art critic Stanisław Witkiewicz. His mother was Maria Pietrzkiewicz Witkiewiczowa. Both of his parents were born in the Samogitian region of Lithuania. His godmother was the internationally famous actress Helena Modrzejewska.
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – a writer, playwright, poet, painter, photographer, philosopher and an art theoretician. Witkacy was a visionary ahead of his times, and yet a concretely pungent prankster, whose cutting-egde judgement and catastrophic prophesies allow new generations to rediscover his work time and again. One of the few Polish artists whose significance for world art history endures the test of time.
He died by commiting suicide upon learning of the Red Army’s attack on Poland, on the 18th of September, 1939 in the village of Jeziory, Polesie region (present-day Ukraine).

Reviews

[Kinga Gadomska]

Nie rozumiem.

[Bygun]

To była pozycja adekwatna do mojego stanu ducha ( byłem pijany ). A tak serio to całkiem ciekawie się słuchało..ale dobrze, że byłem pijany.

[Milena]

"że sztuka jest wyrazem duszy ludzkiej, że jest chęcią przypodobania się, narzucenia komuś innemu swoich uczuć i myśli, a nawet powiedzenie, że jest Pięknem, okazuje się niewystarczające"

"że nasz stosunek do sztuki jest bezpośredni, to znaczy, że podobanie się lub niepodobanie się nie wynika z pojęcia zrozumienia"

[Marta Kleczynska]

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