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Witkacy’s Amusia

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2016
Witkacy suffered from amusia as a child and as an adult person. He was seriously interested in music only for a little over twenty years (1890–1914?). He wrote his main works as an amusic. The relation between amusia and metaphysical feelings may suggest
Tomasz Bocheński
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Witkacy and His Doppelgängers [PDF]

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2019
The literary work of Stanisław I. Witkiewicz (Witkacy), whose world career began in the fifties of the last century, is considered today in many aspects as precursory to postmodernism.
Paweł Dybel
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AI in theatre. Witkacy case study [PDF]

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems
Marek Średniawa
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Tuwim and Witkacy: Visual Translation of 'Kalinowe dwory'

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2016
The article offers a comparative analysis of a lost painting by Witkacy (know only from a photographic reproduction) and a poem by Julian Tuwim. Tuwim’s poem inspired Witkacy to create his work.
Paweł Polit
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What is still not Known about Witkacy’s Intertextuality? An Analysis of Witkacy and Słowacki [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2013
The author addresses the extent to which Witkacy’s work should be seen in relation to Romantic playwright Juliusz Słowacki who began the Artistic Theater in Poland according to Witkacy’s own words.
Marta A. Skwara
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Freedom of self-discreditation. On Witkacy’s letters to his wife

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2017
„If these letters are to be found by someone after my death, I will be brought into disrepute (…)” – wrote Witkacy to Jadwiga and he reminded his wife of destroying all the letters she receives from him.
Sara Kurowska
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Witkacy – nasz współczesny

Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2016
Banned in 1949–1955, Witkacy was reclaimed for Polish culture in the process of political change in 1956. His work has the extraordinary capacity to renew meanings and to resonate with what is happening at a given moment, in changing political, social ...
Janusz Degler
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Witkacy’s Paradises

Przestrzenie Teorii, 2010
The studies on Witkacy’s oeuvre Narcotics (Narkotyki, 1932) exist without any specific status, as if reduced to a research element ancillary to other “more serious” creative areas of its author.
Giovanna Tomassucci
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Witkacy and Conspiracy Theories [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2013
In this article the author takes an historical overview of conspiracy theories and how they have been paraded in the work of Witkacy. They have been with us at least since the time of Ancient Rome, connected both with the Christians and Jews ...
Daniel Gerould
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The History of the Witkacy Collection in Słupsk [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2013
This account describes the activity of the Museum in functional terms and reports on the 45-year presence in Słupsk of the Witkacy collection. The presence of Witkacy’swork in Słupsk was instigated by an initial acquisition of 110 works which were ...
Anna Brochocka
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