Krucjata dziecięca w literaturze i malarstwie

• Authors: Kudyba Wojciech

Title variants

EN

Children’s Crusade in Literature and Painting

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author analyzes the two artistic visions of the children’s crusade. He points out that modern historians have no doubts – the crusade never happened. The author notes that the essence of this myth is the idea of undeserved suffering. In this way the writers could pose fundamental questions about the meaning of human existence. The painting of Witold Wojtkiewicz Krucjata dziecięca reveals – according to the author – a vision of being “in” the world – the world of no fulfilment, full of emptiness and death which threatens people. In contrast we have a vision created by Wojciech Gawlowski. The children’s journey is not, like in Wojtkiewicz’s work, a travelling towards the unknown, but a familiar and tamed ritual. It is both wonderful and handicapped, sublimed and grotesque. First of all however, it has one clear goal – it is a journey towards the supernatural.

Keywords

EN

Children’s Crusade; Polish literature; Polish Painting

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Bielsko-Bialski
• Journal: Świat i Słowo
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 2010, nr 2 (15)
• Pages: 119-126

Dates

published

2010-10

Contributors

author

Kudyba Wojciech

• Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego, Dewajtis 5, Warszawa

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Identifiers

ISSN

1731-3317