“LIVES OF ORANGE MEN”, OR HEROES OF INDEPENDENT CULTURE ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PORTRAIT OF THE CREATORS OF THE ARTISTIC PROTEST MOVEMENT “ORANGE ALTERNATIVE”
“LIVES OF ORANGE MEN”, OR HEROES OF INDEPENDENT CULTURE ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PORTRAIT OF THE CREATORS OF THE ARTISTIC PROTEST MOVEMENT “ORANGE ALTERNATIVE”

Summary/Abstract: This text is a contribution to cultural studies of the artistic protest movement „Orange Alternative”, with particular attention to the role played by the “Orange Men” - not only the title characters of Waldemar “Major” Fydrych's book, but also the leaders of the movement: Waldemar “Major” Fydrych, “Lieutenant” Zenon Zegarski, Robert Jeziorski, Andrzej Dziewit, Józef Pinior and Krzysztof Skiba. Their biographies, presented by the leader of the movement in the convention of fiction, complement the life stories of participants in major historical events. Included in the text are references to the concepts of freedom, joy and socialist surrealism as ideological pillars of the Orange Alternative.

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