Anthropological Dimension of the Artistic Creations of Krystyna Herling-Grudziński Cover Image

Antropologiczny wymiar malarstwa Krystyny Herling-Grudzińskiej
Anthropological Dimension of the Artistic Creations of Krystyna Herling-Grudziński

Author(s): Joanna Bielska-Krawczyk
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: anthropology of an image; image as memory; body; mask; depersonalization

Summary/Abstract: The main goal of this article is to reveal anthropological dimension of the artistic creations of almost unknown painter, the wife of the outstanding Polish writer Gustaw Herling-Grudziński – Krystyna Herling-Grudziński. In the text the Author asks questions about the vision of a human being that we can find in those pictures and the ways painter shows its depersonalization. The main motivation of the use of anthropological perspective in the study of those works is biography of the artist (especially her suicidal death) and the character of her creations.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 31-49
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish