11 (1/2020)

2020

Publication date: 2020

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The Polish Journal of the Art and Culture. New Series 1 (2018) has been granted funding from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for Science Popularization Activities – DUN (agreement no 922/P-DUN/2019).

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Studia anatomiczne jako temat i wyzwanie w sztuce. Historyczny zarys ilustracji anatomicznych i współczesne nawiązania

Beata Bigaj-Zwonek

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 11 (1/2020), 2020, pp. 11-40

https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.20.001.12987

The cooperation of scientists and artists on projects focusing on human anatomy developed with the availability of deeper direct observations, e.g. during an autopsy. Over time, the demand for showing the body grew: the wider knowledge interested medics and artists, later also viewers unrelated to medical issues. The article presents the history of the development of anatomical studies in the context of illustrations and other objects visualizing human structure. Examples of contemporary references to the tradition of anatomical illustrations in art are also presented. The article presents works based on the characteristic features of atlas exemplification, but referring to social discourses and human condition.

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Tibetan Buddhist masters between two lives: a closer look at the genre of bar do’i rnam thar using the example of the Seventh Karma pa, Chos grags rgya mtsho (1454–1506)

Dominik Dell

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 11 (1/2020), 2020, pp. 41-63

https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.20.002.12988

This paper sets out to provide an overview of the little-researched genre of bar do’i rnam thar – an account of the experience of the intermediate state between two incarnations by Tibetan Buddhist masters. Representatives of this genre are identified, and the state of research and translation is summarised. This paper contributes to this field of research by providing an annotated translation, analysis, and critical edition of the so-far untranslated bar do’i rnam thar of the Seventh Karma pa from the mKhas pa’i dga’ ston.

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Mimesis a duende. Proces kreacji flamenco w świetle koncepcji naśladownictwa w starożytnej estetyce greckiej

Krzysztof Hliniak

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 11 (1/2020), 2020, pp. 65-92

https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.20.003.12989

The paper describes the relationship between imitation and creativity in flamenco style, referring them to the Greek concept of mimesis and comparing it with the duende concept present in this genre. Although both ideas are separated by two thousand years, they transpire to be unexpectedly convergent in their basic premises.

In order to present the phenomenon of duende, the author also attempts a short answer to the question of what the phenomenon of flamenco is, what conditioned its emergence, what its characteristics are, and what forms and styles of flamenco can be currently found. Describing the phantasms about duende and a flamenco show, the author presents the process of creating a flamenco performance and its choreography.

The paper refers to the accomplishments of the acclaimed Polish philosopher Władysław Tatarkiewicz, and is also a tribute to the late professor Jagna Dankowska, a sound director, a Professor of Philosophy, a Professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, who inspired the author to write this text.

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Przygody demona Asmodeusza i króla Salomona według Talmudu babilońskiego (Gittin 68a–b). Przekład i komentarz z perspektywy projektu Elyonim veTachtonim

Wojciech Kosior

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 11 (1/2020), 2020, pp. 93-111

https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.20.004.12990

Tractate Gittin 68a–b contains a unique rabbinic story about the adventures of king Solomon and demon Asmodeus. The king wishes to build the Jerusalem temple, but in order to do so he needs the support of the demon. The latter helps the king, but the price Solomon has to pay afterwards turns out to be very high and for the rest of his days the king sleeps surrounded by his armed guard in fear of the return of Asmodeus. Despite the complexity and richness of this tale, it has not yet been translated into Polish. What is more, due to the vividness of its protagonists it can exemplify the nuances of the world of the supernatural entities. The present study has therefore two main purposes: (1) the presentation of the Polish translation of the story of Solomon and Asmodeus present in Gittin 68a–b; and (2) the analysis of the said story using the categories of the Elyonim veTachtonim project, which aims at the creation of a complete database of the supernatural entities in the early rabbinic literature.

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Przejście od klimatu przemocy do przemocy konkretnej. Kategoria rewolucji w filozofii Frantza Fanona

Izabela Poręba

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 11 (1/2020), 2020, pp. 113-131

https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.20.005.12991

The article shows the philosophical idea of revolution formulated by Frantz Fanon in relation to the process of decolonization in his work The Wretched of the Earth. The conception of “world divided into compartments” – in which the colonialized territory is seen as a bipartite, incoherent space of forced coexistence of the colonized and the colonizer – is being analysed in detail. Animalistic imagery depressing natives was used for a description of dependent lands and was a way to strengthen the difference and highlight the separateness (not only a cultural one, but also racial and even opposition of human and inhuman/animal). In his prorevolutionary stand Fanon suspended and relativized the evaluation of violence and liberating war. Next subjects of the analysis are violence and threats connected to the forms of resistance and the moment of transition between the first, gentle rebellion strategies to revolutionary movements leading to decolonization. In the last part of the article I outline the impact of Fanon’s philosophical conception of revolution.

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Dialogues and Diagnoses

In what language did the Buddha preach? Review of Richard Gombrich’s Buddhism and Pali, Mud Pie Slices 2018

Joanna Gruszewska

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 11 (1/2020), 2020, pp. 133-136

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Wyniki I i II sezonu badań archeologicznych w jeziorze Petén Itzá, Gwatemala

Magdalena Krzemień, Bernard Hermes, Jakub Maciejewski, Małgorzata Mileszczyk, Mateusz Popek

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 11 (1/2020), 2020, pp. 137-152

The report presents the results of the research conducted by a Polish-Guatemalan team in lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala. The account discusses the main project objectives, work results obtained during two research seasons, as well as plans for the next stages of the study. It also allows to get acquainted with character of underwater archaeologists’ work.

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Comments and remarks on the XV Muslim International Forum held in Berlin on December 10, 2019

Marek Moroń

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 11 (1/2020), 2020, pp. 153-165

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Recenzja książki: Sylwia Góra, Ewa Kierska. Malarka melancholii, Universitas, Kraków 2020, ss. 248.

Paulina Tendera

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 11 (1/2020), 2020, pp. 167-170

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Słowa kluczowe: body, anatomical illustration, autopsy, contemporary art, Chos grags rgya mtsho, Karmapa VII, bar do’i rnam thar, mkhas pa’i dga’ ston, Liberation Story of the In-Between State, flamenco, duende, mimesis, Federico García Lorca, imitation, Babylonian Talmud, demonology, Asmodeus, Salomon, Frantz Fanon, revolution, decolonisation, violence, conquest, rituals, reconnaissance, underwater archeology, Itza Maya

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