TY - JOUR
TI - Self-Utopias and Experiences of Crisis in the Life Writing Practices of Erna Rosenstein and Urszula Broll
AU - Grzemska, Aleksandra
TI - Self-Utopias and Experiences of Crisis in the Life Writing Practices of Erna Rosenstein and Urszula Broll
AB - 
	The text is an attempt to analyze the life writing practices of neo-avant-garde visual artists: Erna Rosenstein and Urszula Broll, through the concept of self-utopia and experiences of crisis. The source of knowledge on this subject are not only objects of art (paintings, drawings, artistic objects), but also literary texts (poetry, prose), notes of dreams, memories, private notes from the artists’ archives. The author considers the relations between the sense of crisis and disintegration experienced by both artists and their utopian vision of art and artistic practice, including writing activity (poetry, fairy tales). This interpretation is prompted by the perception of Rosenstein’s and Broll’s works as mediumistic and meditative, which allowed them to develop spiritual practices, as well as the perspective of the artists’ self-utopian art-life projects, the assumptions of which are consistent with post-anthropocentric humanistic thought.
VL - 2023
IS - Issue 4 (58) 2023
PY - 2023
SN - 1897-1962
C1 - 2084-395X
SP - 133
EP - 156
DO - 10.4467/2084395XWI.23.031.18866
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/autoutopie-i-doswiadczenia-kryzysu-w-praktykach-life-writing-erny-rosenstein-i-urszuli-broll
KW - self-utopia
KW - experience of crisis
KW - life writing
KW - poetry
KW - dream notes
KW - fairy tales
KW - neo-avant-garde
KW - contemporary women’s art
KW - archives