Estetyka PRL: ludowość i groteska

• Authors: Krzysztof Piątkowski

Title variants

EN

THE AESTHETICS OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF POLAND - FOLKLORE QUALITIES AND THE GROTESQUE

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article considers the aesthetics of the People’s Republic of Poland and proposes certain interpretations from the perspective of the anthropology of culture. Accepting that the code of culture at the time included two functioning “circulations”: official and unofficial, there must have occurred a certain duality of thinking. Assorted artistic undertakings were granted a suitable framework (i.e. a convention making it possible to distinguish certain contents, associated with daily reality). Folklore qualities and the grotesque, comprehended as sui generis cultural categories (not solely aesthetic), modelled ways of thinking, behaviour and artistic expression in both circulations.

Keywords

EN

Anthropology and history; People’s Republic of Poland

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 1(292)
• Pages: 70-74

Contributors

author

Krzysztof Piątkowski