Sztuka, która krzywdzi? Granice gestu krytycznego wobec bolesnej pamięci (a cenzura)
Art That Hurts? The Limits of the Critical Gesture and Painful Memory (and Censorship)

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the shift in visual art production and criticism from the acts of commemorating the historical event to the acts of criticism aimed at the social and symbolic production of meanings, emotions, memories. The author analyses the crisis caused by such artistic undertakings (Libera, Żmijewski, Sierra, among others) and the acts of censorship related to them. She is mostly interested in ways the discourse of emotions and affects is employed in these acts of contemporary iconoclasm and could be productively overtaken by artistic and critical discourse which would, at the same time, fulfil its political and ethical obligations.

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