Open AccessRewolucje Mieczysława Szczuki
Author(s) -
Aleksandra Więcek-Gigla
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
śląskie studia polonistyczne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-0928
pISSN - 2084-0772
DOI - 10.31261/ssp.2020.16.01
Subject(s) - proletariat , left wing politics , the arts , constructivism (international relations) , visual arts , avant garde , counterculture , art history , art , sociology , aesthetics , political science , law , international relations , politics
The article presents Mieczysław Szczuka, a visual artist, graphic designer and architect from Warsaw. His activities at the turn of the 20th century greatly contributed to the emergence of New Arts: he was a pioneer of constructivism in Poland, he created the first Polish photomontages, he argued in favour of giving the arts back to the proletariat. His radical, extremely leftist views made him a loner in his hard struggle for a revolution in the arts (and, in the long run, also in the society).