Kantor redivivus: sztuka jako pole walki
Kantor Redivivus: Art as a Battlefield

Summary/Abstract: Katarzyna Fazan focuses on the contradictions in Tadeusz Kantor's work and in the artist himself. She traces the path of Kantor's theater from the avant-garde and anti-aesthetics to anti-art, and finally to plays that could be described as fictionalized biography and historical post-memory. The author points out the destructive, aggressive language of Kantor's statements, calling his work a “struggle” in social, political, and artistic categories. Drawing from the work of Jacques Rancière, Fazan suggests the thesis that, although Kantor's theater did not comment directly on political reality, it was political: the artist created an opposition between art and authority.

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