The Polish Journal Estetyka
of Aesthetics i Krytyka
The Polish Journal Estetyka of Aesthetics i Krytyka
Vol. 31 (4/2013)
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics / Estetyka i Krytyka
Editor-in-Chief:
Leszek Sosnowski
Editorial Board:
Franciszek Chmielowski, Anna M. Kłonkowska, Janusz Krupiński, Marcin Lubecki, Piotr Mróz, Józef Tarnowski, Paulina Tendera (Secretary), Andrzej Warmiński (Deputy Editor)
Advisory Board:
Władysław Stróżewski Bohdan Dziemidok Tadeusz Gadacz Maria Gołaszewska Teresa Kostyrko Andrzej J. Nowak Elżbieta Paczkowska-Łagowska Zofia Rosińska Beata Szymańska Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska Bogusław Żyłko Cover Design:
Katarzyna Migdał
Cover Photo:
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1912) From the collection of Jadwiga Witkiewiczowa
Editorial Layout and Typesetting:
Marcin Lubecki Published by Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University 52 Grodzka Street, 31-004 Krakow Printed by LIBRON First Edition: 200 copies
© Copyright by Jagiellonian University All rights reserved ISBN 978-83-62196-80-7 ISSN 1643-1243
Witkacy in English:
21st Century Perspectives
Editors of the Volume:
Kevin Anthony Hayes and Mark Rudnicki
Contents
Introduction by Kevin Anthony Hayes 13
Acknowledgements 23
The History of the Witkacy Movement
Janusz Degler Dedication to the Founding Mother
and Fathers 29
Lech Sokół Daniel Charles Gerould (1928–2012)
In Memoriam 33
Anna Brochocka The History of the Witkacy Collection
in Słupsk 39
Beata Zgodzińska The Witkacy Collection and Exhibition at the Museum of Middle Pomerania
in Słupsk 49
Stanisław Ignacy The Rules of the Portrait-Painting Firm
Witkiewicz (trans. Beata Brodniewicz) 53
Witkacy in the Realm of the Political
Daniel Gerould Witkacy and Conspiracy Theories 59
Witkacy and Polish Modernism
Anna Żakiewicz Witkacy’s Paintings as Frozen Drama 73 Małgorzata Vražić Witkiewicz-Father and Son: The Double
Portrait 87
The Multifacated Idea of Pure Form
Michael Goddard Cinema, Insatiability and Impure Form:
Witkacy on Film 99
John D. Barlow Witkiewicz’s Theory of Pure Form and
the Music of Morton Feldman 109
Gordon Ramsay Futurism and Witkiewicz: Variety, Separation and Coherence in a Theatre
of Pure Form 121
Between: Philosophy, History and Politics
Agnieszka Marczyk The Witkacy – Cornelius Correspondence, or How to Cure Gout with Transcendental
Philosophy 137
Paweł Polit Philosophical Marginalia by Stanisław
Ignacy Witkiewicz 149
Bryce Lease Cutting the Romantic’s Throat:
Witkacy’s Nasty Nightmare 155
Mark Rudnicki The Profane and the Sacred in Insatiability 167
Questions of Identity in the Work of Witkacy
Ewa Wąchocka Identity Traps in Witkacy’s Dramas 177 Dorota Witkacy’s Self-Portraits as Manifestations
Niedziałkowska of the Dandy Figure 189
Christine Witkacy and Ghelderode: Goethe’s Faust
Kiebuzińska Transformed into a Grotesque Cabaret 207
Witkacy in Comparative Perspective
Marta A. Skwara What is still not known about Witkacy’s Intertextuality? An Analysis of Witkacy
and Słowacki 221
J. Greg Perkins Eluding the Void: Art and Humour as Anodynes for Witkiewicz, Beckett
and Faulkner 237
Annex: Witkacy’s Portraits and
the Słupsk Collection 249
About the Contributors 271
