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Ruszar J. M.

Świat i Słowo

2015

vol. Świat i Słowo 2015, nr 1 (24)

9-22

Zbigniew Herbert was a poet, essayist and playwright, but he graduated from the School of Economics in Krakow and he held a master’s degree in economics. Examination the essays from “The New Economic Criticism” angle is indisputably legitimate, even though we are speaking of a literary text. In Herbert’s essays, we find a wide range of economic problems. The essayist takes on micro- and macroeconomics, specific issues like the value of the daily wage of a labourer or the real income of a soldier in Julius Caesar’s army, not to mention such issues as financial crises and stock market booms and busts. He wants to find out the earnings and forms of payment of the royalties to an architect building a Gothic cathedral in medieval France and, in another essay, the prices of paintings in 17th century Netherlands or the artwork trade system in 1960s Paris. The essayist’s inquisitiveness, and above all the complex calculations that aim to establish the actual state of affairs, is supported by a query in professional journals and publications dealing with the history of economy. And it must be admit that Herbert’s knowledge was impressive in this regard and was not limited to general and textbook approaches.

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Ruszar J. M.

Świat i Słowo

2016

vol. 14

issue (1) 26

187-205

In an essay “The Price of Art” Herbert examines the revenue and expenditure of Dutch artists of the seventeenth century, when paintings proliferated despite an almost complete absence of patrons. After a detailed examination of the financial condition of the painters – craftsmen Herbert concludes: “from the banal and not very striking point of view of the balance sheet… is better and more honest than the pathos and sentimental sighs favored by the authors of vies romancees written for tender heats”. Herbert – as the painters during the “Golden Age” of Dutch painting – is not a rebel against the art market. A contrary. He admires the free market and capital- ism, also in the field of art. Despite the risks and sometimes financial disaster, Herbert envy artists seventeenth century: “their role in society and place on earth were not questioned… The question why art exists did not occur to anyone because a world without paintings was simply inconceivable”. Essayist also supports the current trends towards financialisation of art.

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