Obrazki porażki [Images of Failure]

On the one hand, the sphere of art offers the possibility to imagine a different, less oppressive and normative world, where just as in the case of cartoons even the greatest gawks, misfits, and outcasts would build friendships and alliances helping them to reach a happy ending. On the other hand, t...

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Published inStudia Litteraria et Historica Vol. 9
Main Author Stańczyk, Xawery
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Warsaw Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (ISS PAS) 01.01.2020
Subjects
Aesthetics
Cartoons
Failure
Social norms
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Summary:On the one hand, the sphere of art offers the possibility to imagine a different, less oppressive and normative world, where just as in the case of cartoons even the greatest gawks, misfits, and outcasts would build friendships and alliances helping them to reach a happy ending. On the other hand, there is something of an artistic performance, at least of an illusionist show, to an intentional act of failure. To perform failure, one has to improvise, to operate randomly, blunderingly, and ostentatiously, as well as to resist the social norms and rules. The artworks that are presented here pertain to all of these meanings of the “art of failure”.
ISSN:2299-7571
DOI:10.11649/slh.2463