Brudnopisy Tadeusza Kantora – od przestrzenności zapisków do czasowości archiwaliów
Tadeusz Kantor’s Drafts – from the spatiality of notes to the tempo-rality of the archives

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to analyze drafts as an artistic form crossing the boundaries between what is literary and what belongs to the visual arts. The material undergoing interpretation here is Tadeusz Kantor’s Drafts series, which consists of the artist’s notes, staging remarks, and notes intended for display in the form of enlarged photocopies. Kantor’s drafts represent the type of thinking about passing, art and the past characteristic for this artist and for the contemporary nostalgic, historical imagination. That is why the topic of the archive in the context of Kantor’s art also enables discussion of Derrida’s archive fever, the problem of traces and the paradoxes of modern memorial discourse.

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