Edward Krasiński’s “Overhead Sculptures”: A Manifestation of Modernity
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2022-12-13
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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Edward Krasiński (1925-2004), sculptor and painter, one of most important protagonists of the Polish art of the 1960s and 1970s, is mainly remembered for his artistic interventions with the use of the Scotch-Blue tape. However, the author of the article focuses on the group of sculptures Dzidy [The Spears] from the mid-1960s. Julian Przyboś (1901-1970), a Polish poet and art critic, called these linear compositions ‘overhead sculptures’, because they were presented in an open space. The purpose of the article is to propose a new way of comprehending the above-mentioned compositions based on the press commentaries of Przyboś. The most crucial aspects to be taken into account are: their dynamism, shape, colour, interaction with the surrounding space, link with the ‘Theory of Place’ which defines the relationship between an artwork, the space it occupies and the viewer, as well as the artist’s interest in the achievements of science and technology.
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„Modernism/Modernity”, 2022, Vol. 29, No. 3, September, pp. 653-671