Encounters with Tadeusz Kantor by Miklaszewski Krzysztof;Hyde George;Hyde George;

Author:Miklaszewski, Krzysztof;Hyde, George;Hyde, George; [Miklaszewski, Krzysztof]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2022-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

KM:

When it comes to art's bonds with social life, you would probably agree with the truth of art mirroring social transformations …

TK:

Art does do that, but not as part of a schema of the sort signified by the norms of socio-political life. Slogans of a revolutionary ethic become very reactionary where art is concerned.

KM:

The slogan, reiterated over and over again, “Art for the masses, art for the workers,” highlights the communicative function of language.

TK:

But all good art is communicative. I have insisted in Cricot on a concept of “thrill” as the only channel of communication with the spectator. I simply don't reckon with the channel of political information or of social relations. Art is not needed for communicative processes of that sort. What is more, the avant-garde, which I represent, has always battled for the freedom of the human spirit, and has expressed this in our time with real grandiloquence. After 1945, our struggle was sustained in settings and circumstances which were very dangerous for those who supported it. If this is what I have been doing all my life, and if I am doing it today, I really cannot see why I should change in order to find something “innovative”. My struggle, then and now, was the struggle of innovation: I struggle for the freedom of man and his personal standpoint. I do that on my own account, but in a different structure, more intricate than that of social life. Secondly, if I consider that the concept of “thrill” is the only medium which can contain the work of art and its spectator, this is just one element in an integrated programme of innovation. And so I stand in opposition to the canons of the academic avant-garde, which asserts its right to “arrange” people's souls.

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