%0 Journal Article
%T “Bold Objections” vs “Arrogant Modesty ,” i.e. Karol Irzykowski Towards Leon Chwistek
%A Panek, Sylwia
%J Wielogłos
%V 2024
%R 10.4467/2084395XWI.24.009.19755
%N Issue 2 (60) 2024
%P 19-41
%K Leon Chwistek, Karol Irzykowski, polemics, interwar period, futurism, formism
%@ 1897-1962
%D 2024
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/zuchwale-zastrzezenia-przeciw-aroganckiej-skromnosci-czyli-karol-irzykowski-wobec-leona-chwistka
%X The article concerns Karol Irzykowski’s attitude towards Leon Chwistek. The dispute between the author of Słoń wśród porcelany [Elephant Among Porcelain] and Chwistek focuses on an understanding and conceptualisation of reality, the limits and reasons for the autonomy of art, attitudes to the tradition of realism and the value of modern art treatments (formism and futurism). The author not only reconstructs the planes of his confrontation with the philosopher, thematised by Irzykowski, but also reveals the contexts in which the critic places this polemic, diagnoses the roots of the dispute and presents the different positions of both critics on the literary and political map in the second decade of the interwar period.