Open AccessArts & Literature: Making Art Out of History’s Tragedies—An Interview with Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
Author(s) -
Sanford M. Jacoby
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
genocide studies and prevention
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1911-9933
pISSN - 1911-0359
DOI - 10.5038/1911-9933.15.3.1875
Subject(s) - kitsch , the arts , genocide , art , history , visual arts , aesthetics , political science , law
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is a Polish poet and musician. Here he reflects on the violence perpetrated in Poland during the Second World War, and the dualities of the Polish experience. Is it possible for art to reckon with the darkness, free of melodrama and kitsch?