Lost on the Way: “The Walking Man” by Alberto Giacometti and Its Recontextualization by Piotr Stepnowski as a Metaphor for the Human Condition Cover Image

Zagubieni w drodze. „Idący człowiek” Alberto Giacomettiego i jego rekontekstualizacja Piotra Stepnowskiego jako metafory ludzkiej kondycji
Lost on the Way: “The Walking Man” by Alberto Giacometti and Its Recontextualization by Piotr Stepnowski as a Metaphor for the Human Condition

Author(s): Grażyna B. Tomaszewska
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Thoreau; Giacometti; Stepnowski; sculpture; being lost; recontextualization; human condition;

Summary/Abstract: The main idea of the article is Henry David Thoreau’s conviction that being lost on the way, losing one’s way and, consequently, coming to a stop enables one to truly explore the present location and to establish the destination one wishes to reach. This perspective allows to observe the situation of a modern man and pose questions related to their actions to date. The interpretative material through which these problems are realized are two contemporary sculptures, treated as metaphors of the human condition: Albert Giacometti’s Walking Man and Piotr Stepnowski’s Walking Man (a form of recontextualization of Giacometti’s sculpture).

  • Issue Year: 8/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 143-155
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish