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panthori rated 14 months ago- Witkiewicz had died in some obscurity but his reputation began to rise soon after the War, a war which had destroyed his own life and devastated Poland. Czesław Miłosz framed his argument in The Captive Mind around a discussion of Insatiability. The artist and theatre director Tadeusz Kantor was inspired by the Cricot group, through which Witkiewicz had presented his final plays in Kraków. Kantor brought many of the plays back into currency, first in Poland and then internationally. The Ministry of Culture in the new Communist Poland decided to exhume Witkiewicz's body in the post-war period and move it to Zakopane, and give him a ceremonial burial with honors. It was performed according to plan, though nobody was allowed to open the coffin delivered by the Soviet authorities. Much later, a genetic study proved that the body belonged to an unknown Ukrainian woman -- a final absurdist joke 50 years after the publication of the writer's last novel.
- laodan rated 18 months ago
- Witkacy: Stanis Ignacy Witkiewicz 1885-1939 via Meatbomb / Metafilter, in State University of NY-Buffalo Online by Mark Rudnicki
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz , Witkacy for short. Artist, photographer, absurdist playwright, surrealist novelist, philosopher, witness to the Russian revolution, art theoretician and critic, the Great Malinowski's closest friend, drug fiend, and by most accounts a raving maniac and self-involved pain in the ass. His greatest novel was sadly prophetic: fleeing east to escape the invading Nazis, and then hearing the news that the Communists were also on the way, he slit his wrists on September 18, 1939 in the village of Jeziory, a martyr and victim to his obstinate belief in the freedom and independence of man against the bankruptcy of ideology and the coming wave of totalitarianism Witkacy: Stanis Ignacy Witkiewicz 1885-1939 Strange world of Witkacy Gallery Former post in Metafilter. Argonauts of the Western Pacific: S. I. Witkiewicz and Bronislaw Malinowski Witkiewicz in Wikipedia.
"Composition", 1922, oil on canvas, National Museum, Cracow
"Nocturnal Landscape", c. 1901-02, oil on canvas, 60 x 96 cm, Museum of Literature, Warsaw
"Composition", 1922, oil on canvas, National Museum, Cracow
I had never heard of this guy. What a discovery. While Paris and those artists who worked in Paris are all mostly well known (and bubble highly-quoted on the market)... it appears that some geniuses were ignored simply because they did not have ties to Paris... This guy was fully in the air of his time a bedfellow of the German expressionists.
- Witkacy: Stanis Ignacy Witkiewicz 1885-1939 via Meatbomb / Metafilter, in State University of NY-Buffalo Online by Mark Rudnicki
