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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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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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Tracking down Witkacy in Australasia: sources, race, productions, context and speculation. [PDF]

, 2021
Witkacy (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz) is the only major European dramatist to have written a play set in Australia. While his philosphical, theatrical, theoretical and visual work is little known in Australia, by charting a chronology of Australian ...
Gillies, John ; https://orcid.org/
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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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The Witkacy Collection and Exhibition at the Museum of Middle Pomerania in Słupsk [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2013
This article describes the development of the Witkacy Collection in the Słupsk Museum. Itdetails the original acquisitions in 1965 and the subsequent additions to the collection.While most of the exhibit consists of portraits, the ...
Beata Zgodzińska
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Cutting the Romantic’s Throat: Witkacy’s Nasty Nightmare [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2013
This text, based on Witkacy’s The Anonymous Work, explores the devastating effects of revolution and the mode in which altruistic causes function as pretenses for power mongering.
Bryce Lease
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Pocztówki z piekła: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz w Paryżu 1908

Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2016
We know little about Witkacy’s stay in Paris in the spring of 1908; we do not know the letters to his father where he probably reported what he experienced there, and the correspondent letters by his father contain few traces of such reports.
Wojciech Sztaba
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