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Where To, Man? Or on the Artistic Quests of Stanislaw Kubicki

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Gluchowska L.

Ikonotheka

2004

issue 17

139-164

Stanislaw Kubicki has been for long recognised as one of the most acclaimed representatives of Expressionism and abstract art in Poland, and a leading member of the Central European avantgarde. Nonetheless, one may speak about a true renaissance of the reception of his oeuvre only within the context of recent exhibitions held in Poland, Europe and America. Kubicki combined the talents of a poet and a painter, as well as a practician and a theoretician. His key work is the drawing 'Where To?', which closed the period of post-Impressionist, Expressionist and Cubist experiments and opened a mature phase in his works. Blending elements of the image and the word, this composition could be recognised as a pars pro toto of the artist's accomplishments. It is precisely the interdisciplinary nature of Kubicki's efforts which, alongside their ambiguity, have for long created an obstacle for all attempts at a synthesis of his oeuvre. In Poznan Kubicki was the co-founder of the first Polish Expressionistic group 'Bunt'. Together with his wife, Margarete, a German artist and poet, he initiated Bunt's contacts (publications and exhibitions) with the German Expressionist periodical 'Die Aktion', whose culmination was a Bunt exhibition in Berlin in June 1918. 'Zdrój' honoured the artist by devoting to him a special issue. His graphic and literary works were presented in 'Der Sturm', 'Der Weg', 'Die Bücherkiste' and 'a-z'. Kubicki was the co-organiser of the 'Die Kommune' group and the 'Gruppe progessiver Künstler'. His most outstanding achievements, however, are not part of the activity of the assorted groups with which he was connected. The process of ascribing his works to the chronology of art groups has for long hampered a perception of the essence of his individual profile and the significance of bonds between various aspects of his creativity. It was Kubicki's intention to revolutionise the image of art and society. Alongside anti-aesthetic and activist postulates, his texts contained ecological motifs which dominated his mature works - artistic, theoretical and literary. The discovery of the all-sided nature of Kubicki's efforts, and the stylistic and ideological qualities of his mature compositions cast a new light on the artist's work.

'IN THE FLOOD OF TIMES'. HISTORY AND TIME IN POLISH EXPRESSIONIST POETRY ('W czasów powodzi'. Koncepcje historii i czasu w polskiej poezji ekspresjonistycznej)

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Szewczyk-Haake K.

Pamiętnik Literacki

2009

vol. 100

issue 1

71-108

The theme of the article are expressionist images, and time and history conceptualizations found in the poems produced in the Poznan group of 'Spring' (Zdroj) by Stanislaw Kubicki, Emil Zegadlowicz, Adam Bederski, Witold Hulewicz, and in the articles published in this periodical. The topics in question allows to point at the most vital disparities between Polish and German expressionism made explainable by the diffrent political situation of the countries by the end and after World War I. Romantic-like understanding of historical process - particularly vital and suggestive part of romantic world-view to which 'Spring' members referred became, as a matter of fact, a background for expressionist ideas, evolving from pre-modernistic conceptions to modern ones, akin to that of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Where To, Man? Or on the Artistic Quests of Stanislaw Kubicki

'IN THE FLOOD OF TIMES'. HISTORY AND TIME IN POLISH EXPRESSIONIST POETRY ('W czasów powodzi'. Koncepcje historii i czasu w polskiej poezji ekspresjonistycznej)