Ikonoklaści i ikonofile
Iconoclasts and Iconophiles

Summary/Abstract: This text delves into the problem of avoiding iconoclasm envisaged as critical praxis – the removal of supposedly mendacious images and intercessions. Pondering the quest for the possibility of conducting non-iconoclastic critique postulated by Bruno Latour it refers to the world of images and literally conceived iconoclasm. Upon the example of the assault carried out by Daniel Olbrychski against images from The Nazis series by Piotr Uklański (2000, Zachęta, Warsaw) the author considered artistic responses to the attack, showing the way in which Uklański pursued the activity of an iconophile - interested not in a single image (idolatry) or the abolition of images (iconoclasm) but their motion, multiplication, and transition between the media and forms.

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