Art Inquiry. Recherches sur les arts t. XVI (XXV)

Margins and Marginalization The concepts spelled out in the title Margins and Marginalization usually carry negative connotations. They are associated with having to live outside the main current of events, or with the peripheral and thus inessential aspects of an artwork. Such an understanding assumes a sharp division into major, central, important elements, and minor or marginal ones. However, the validity of such division has been questioned by some contemporary theoreticians and artists. Its arbitrariness and relativist character had been also pointed out in the past. The aim of the 2014 volume is to investigate the occurrence of the titular concepts in the theory and practice of both old and contemporary art. We wish to examine different conceptualizations of margins and marginalization and we are open to a broad range of approaches to his topic.

Introduction ...........7 TERESA PĘKALA – Philosophical and Aesthetic Contexts of the Phenomenon of Marginalization in Late Modernity...................9 KRZYSZTOF CICHOŃ – Around the margin in eighty worlds and twenty years. Remarks on the paradoxical nature of the notion of a margin ...............23 PAULINA SZTABIŃSKA – Contemporary artist and the notion of center and periphery ...........................................45 GRZEGORZ SZTABIŃSKI – The margins of transcendence in contemporary art ....................57 AGNIESZKA KUCZYŃSKA – Surréalisme en 1947 – occultism and the post-war marginalisation of Surrealism ...........87 EWA WOJTYNIAK-DĘBIŃSKA – Extrasensory Images: Marginal Phenomenon or Important Trend in the European Art? ................................101 DOMINIKA ŁARIONOW – Scenography studies – on the margin of art history and theater studies ..........................115 RYSZARD W. KLUSZCZYŃSKI – Interactive film within the paradigm of institutional cinema .......127 GRZEGORZ DZIAMSKI – Polish Files in the Lomholt Archive of Mail Art .................137 EWA KUBIAK – Cultural metissage – the descriptive concept of hybrid phenomena on the peripheries of cultures ......147 ANETA PAWŁOWSKA – The Ambivalence of African-American Culture. The New Negro Art in the interwar period .....167 ROMAN KUBICKI – The discreet charm of margins. A considered attempt to make a timid introduction to the rather non-existent aesthetics of Blaise Pascal ........195 KAZIMIERZ PIOTROWSKI – The Taming of Irreligion. Essay on the Abuse of the Non-Sacred Idea ............215 PIOTROWSKA-TRYZNO MAJA – The Living Death: ‘Trick or treat!’ The Vivid Presence of Death Symbolism in Contemporary Art and a Philosophical Interpretation of its Existential Role .........243 ELEONORA JEDLIŃSKA – Art on the brink, ergo the margin of life: Marek Chlanda’s The Tango of Death ..........257 MAGDALENA SAMBORSKA – The Art of Women – form the Margin to the Mainstream ..............275 AGNIESZKA ŁUGOWSKA – The Art and Craft Divide – on the Exigency of Margins .......285 JULIA SOWIŃSKA-HEIM – Margins and marginalizations in a postsocialist urban area. The case of Łódź ..................297 Artist’s essay: Anders Liden – Art and Revelation ...........................................313 Notes on the Contributors ....................319