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Book SynopsisThe main purpose of this volume is to look into a wide spectrum of artistic ventures which cross boundaries and challenge habitual thinking, consequently involving an element of provocation. While it is true that not all great art is provocative, the most memorable artefacts are these which have confounded our aesthetic expectations or stirred our moral imagination. However, as the turn of the millennium witnessed ever more shocking artistic gestures of provocation, the question arises if there are any limits to artistic freedom. The essays collected in this book offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective and deal with creative acts of transgression from a broad range of fields: literature, theatre, visual art, film, anthropology, and others. This volume will appeal to readers interested in artistic and academic pursuits that are subversive and irreverent.
Table of ContentsContents: Izabella Penier/Anna Suwalska-Kołecka: Art, Ethics, and Provocation – Katarzyna Smyczyńska: Circling Around the Clock Tower: A Visual (Her) story of People through Time – Agata Sitko: Cut and Paste. Dreamscapes of Joseph Cornell – Zbigniew Maszewski: Tomás Rivera’s Vignettes and the Tradition of American. Modernist Fiction: Hemingway and Faulkner – Beata Lisowska: Cinema and Anthropology. Film as a Source of Knowledge – Jakub Ligor: The Coen Brothers’
Fargo as a Transgressive Comedy – Izabela Łapińska/Kaja Łapińska: A Creative Act of «Expropriation» – Justyna Stępień: «Beyond the Edge of the Frame.» Transgression and the Aesthetics of Nostalgia in Derek Jarman’s
Caravaggio – Izabella Penier: Black Is, Black Ain’t: Isaac Julien’s
Looking for Langston – Katarzyna Piotrowska: Demystifying Common Pain in Linda Hogan’s
The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir – Andrzej Dorobek: Polish Acid Rock Approximations – Jadwiga Maszewska: Ellen Glasgow as a Short Story Writer - A Feminist Rebel or a Southern Conservative? «Between Two Shores» (1897) and «Dare’s Gift» (1917) – Anna Frąckowicz: Crossing the Boundaries of the Body. Transgression or a Continuum – Anna Suwalska-Kołecka: Warlikowski Provokes. Gender in
Theatrum Mundi in his Production of
The Taming of the Shrew at the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw.
