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Performers of Modernity

Review: Magdalena Popiel, Świat artysty. Modernistyczne estetyki tworzenia. Kraków 2018

Summary/Abstract: The text reviews of Magdalena Popiel’s book “Świat artysty. Modernistyczne estetyki tworzenia” (“The World of the Artist. Modernist Creative Aesthetics”, Kraków 2018) and also attempts at tracing the intellectual construction that is a promising variant of cultural literary history—the story of the history of creative process. The author directs the receiver’s attention to the artist himself, to his voice that becomes audible also outside the artifact—in letters, diaries, autobiographies; thus “The World of the Artist” attempts to describe those creative individuality in whom artistic activity is closely linked to identity reflection contained in personal document literature. Performers of modernity in Magdalena Popiel’s account are Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, Georg Simmel, Bruno Schulz, Stanisław Witkiewicz, and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, all read through the prism of Peter Sloterdijk or Julia Kristeva.

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