Katharine Ute Mann, Polonia – National Allegory as a Place of Memory to 19th Century Polish Painting, „Quart” 2014, nr 3 (33)
Katharine Ute Mann, Polonia – National Allegory as a Place of Memory to 19th Century Polish Painting, „Quart” 2014, nr 3 (33)

Summary/Abstract: Katharine Ute Mann has been conducting research on the history, art and iconography of Poles. She is associated with the Universities of Düsseldorf and Cologne as well as Collegium Ignatianum in Cracow. In the article Polonia – National Allegory as a Place of Memory to 19th Century Polish Painting she quotes Maria Janion’s typology of Mickiewicz’s idea of messianism, the main reference to national allegories in the 19th century Polish art. However, the resurrection of Poland (reclaiming the independence) is not presented with the appropriate importance in the abovementioned article.In the classification of Polonia Mann introduces a term “Polonia – Remembrance”. She indicates “Dead Poland” and “Poland Crowned” as the most popular types of concepts in the 19th century, next to which “Martyrdom of Poland” and “Poland Rising from the Dead” should be presented.Mann was also wrong to link a pejorative ‘art non-art’ term with the mass prints from 19th and 20th century and contemporary national allegories, typical for the language of postmodernism.Mann omits the name of Anna Myślińska, quoting the article Figura patriae. History of the Allegory of Poland from the Polonia Polonia (2000) exhibition catalogue. She also uses, without an appropriate citation, contents of the monographic catalogue History and Polonia (2009/2010) edited by Myślińska, once again omitting her name.

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