Detournement of Aestheticization — Zofia Kulik The Garden (Libera and Flowers) Cover Image

Przechwycenia estetyzacji — Zofia Kulik Ogród (Libera i kwiaty)
Detournement of Aestheticization — Zofia Kulik The Garden (Libera and Flowers)

Author(s): Anna Kałuża
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Keywords: body; power; masculinity; woman; photo-collage

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to discuss the work of Zofia Kulik Garden (Libera and flowers) inthe context of artistic detournement. Kulik, playing a game with the aesthetic principlesof presenting masculine and feminine body in patriarchal culture, shows how subversiverepetition can be. The artist questions various orders of power, avoiding masculinizationand the feminization of the male body.

  • Issue Year: 61/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 103-116
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish