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O potrzebie czytania niemieckich filozofów. Witkacy o Boyu Witkacy on Boy

Przestrzenie Teorii
The article discusses Witkacy’s attitude towards the amicable reviewer of his plays–Tadeusz Boy Żeleński. Witkacy’s criticism of Boy, the esteemed author of Flirt z Melpomeną (Flirt with Melpomene), is primarily based on his literary credo. Witkacy demanded that when evaluating art, a strictly aesthetic perspective should be adopted, thereby not ...
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Identity Traps in Witkacy’s Dramas [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2013
That ‘crisis of identity’ is one of the central problems addressed by the dramas of Witkacy is primarily linked in the mind of critics to the tradition of modernism.
Ewa Wąchocka
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Witkacy’s Paintings as Frozen Drama [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2013
In this article the author applies Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński’s claim that Witkacy’s paintings are “theatre frozen on canvas” by examining the many characters who coexist in both his paintings and dramas.
Anna Żakiewicz
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Traces of improvisation in "Jedyne wyjście" by Witkacy

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2022
In the article I have analysed the concept of improvisation recorded in Jedyne wyjście by Witkacy. He described the notion as unconstrained variation-based creation flowing from an inspired vision. Witkacy considered vision as the most fundamental source
Tomasz Bocheński
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Witkacy – Schulz – Gombrowicz [PDF]

Tekstualia, 2014
The article presents the original achievements of three writers: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz and Witold Gombrowicz. The text indicates the sources of their inspiration, and describes their reception, and formal experiments. Confrontation of these three types of oeuvre is based on the belief that the legacy of these authors is not merely a
Nalewajk, Żaneta, Wiśniewski, Tomasz
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Cztery noty o Witkacym

Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2016
Four notes on Witkacy’s biography. 1. Did Witkacy Intend to Return to the Tropics? On 9 April 1918, Maria Witkiewiczowa, Witkacy’s mother, sent a postcard to her friend, Leon Chwistek’s sister, with an information that Witkacy was planning to return to ...
Janusz Degler
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"The gut-wrenched audience sank back into their seats like one limp intestine". Witkacy’s Potential Performances.

Przestrzenie Teorii, 2010
Witkacy’s well-known Pure Form in Theatre Theory constitutes, from the logical point of view, a sequence of paradoxical definitions and surrealistic examples. It is, undoubtedly, a premeditated tactics of the Author.
Jan Gondowicz
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„Matka” Witkacego: Tragedia rodzinna – zagłada człowieczeństwa w człowieku

Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2016
Witkacy’s play The Mother (1924), widely praised for its brilliant inventiveness and shocking avant-gardism, is sometimes considered to be a family drama, or a family tragedy or grotesque.
Lech Sokół
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Witkacy na wrocławskich scenach lalkowych

Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2017
Given the rich history of dramas by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz in puppet theatre (27 productions since the Second World War), the author focuses on the shows put on in Wrocław.
Karol Suszczyński
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The Colourful Space of Pure Form. The Problem of Colour in Theory and Practice in the Work of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Przestrzenie Teorii, 2010
Colour was a very important problem in the whole work of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. Not only a whole chapter of his basic theoretical work Nowe formy w malarstwie (New Forms in Painting, published 1919) was devoted to that but the artist also examined ...
Anna Żakiewicz
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