Od rozkoszy historiozofii do "gry w nic". Krytyka artystyczna czasu odwilży

by Piotr Juszkiewicz

"The subject matter of the book is the critical discourse on art in the Polish art and cultural periodicals of the post-Stalinist "thaw". What makes this topic significant is the fact that critical discourse became at that period an area of convergence for all the key terms defining the status and role of art, as well as the functions of artists, critics, and art institutions. The character of those concepts that during the "thaw" were formulated for years to come, in many cases until the end of the communist Poland, determined Polish artistic culture and the moral, intellectual, and political identityof at least two generations of Polish artists, art critics, and art historians.
The mode of historical analysis presented in the book has been dictated by the author's belief that universal definitions of of the identity of art criticism ought to be abandoned in favor of observing transformations of the discourse on art and its relations to other social practices, as well as by recognition of the need to take into account the rhetorical construction of critical texts.

340 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005