Enigma obrazu. Sztuka i gościnność
The Enigma of the Image. Art and Hospitality

Summary/Abstract: An encounter with a great work of art (and in this case this is the only kind I have in mind) always has an underpinning involving risk and uncertainty. Participating in such an encounter we are exposed to the different, the alien, and the unknown. Uncertain, we thus drift between fascination and fear. We are no longer at home and become guests in a “strange” land, but also hosts in relation to that, which is not ours. We enter a work of art, but the latter does the same in relation to us. Sciences dealing with art do much to tame and name that unclear and mysterious encounter and to eliminate its peculiarity with the assistance of learned speech. But that which is the most important appears to evade them.

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