Kantor – Tatlin – Meyerhold. Konstruktywizm w pierwszej i drugiej awangardzie
Constructivism in the First and Second Avant-Garde: Kantor – Tatlin – Meyerhold

Summary/Abstract: The subject of Katarzyna Osińska's article is the influence of the Russian theater of the 1920s and 1930s on Tadeusz Kantor. The author shows the artist's interest in the avant-garde Russian theater, which was synonymous with anti-naturalistic “new realism” shaped through the avant-garde and the work of Oskar Schlemmer and Kurt Schmidt. She devotes most of her attention to the work of Vsevolod Meyerhold and Vladimir Tatlin. Tatlin's reliefs and counter-reliefs are juxtaposed with Kantor's “poor” objects, and she sees traces of Kantor's bio-objects in Khlestakov's saber-wielding in Meyerhold's play. The author also shows the artist's changing stance toward these movements and ideas, focusing primarily on constructivism.

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