Człowiek z mitu. Uświęcone oblicza gniewu (Leszek Sobocki, Grzegorz Klaman – Lech Wałęsa w obrazach)

• Authors: Cembrzyńska, Patrycja

Abstracts

PL

The article is devoted to the images of Lech Wałęsa. Portraits by Leszek Sobocki (The Worker ’81 I–III, 1982) and Grzegorz Klaman’s installations (The Transparent, 2010; Here Is the Head of a Traitor, 2015) become the starting point for reflection on the process of mythologizing the leader of Solidarity that started in August 1980 (the allegoric portraits of The Worker by Sobocki kept in the tradition of the Polish Baroque), and of destroying his myth in post-transformation Poland (Klaman). The iconological analysis of the works by Sobocki and Klaman has identified the role of political and religious functionalization of rage (Peter Sloterdijk) in shaping the image of Wałęsa in public life and visual art representations.

Keywords

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The images of Lech Wałęsa; bank of rage; martial law in Poland; post-socialist transformation; contemporary Polish Catholicism

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Przegląd Humanistyczny
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 64(3 (470))
• Pages: 19-38

Dates

published

2021-01-24

Contributors

author

Cembrzyńska, Patrycja

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31338/2657-599x.ph.2020-3.2