Strzemiński and Marxism
Lecture by Luiza Nader

  • Strzemiński and Marxism

    Krzysztof M. Bednarski, „Portrait of Karl Marx”, 1978

Meetings devoted to Władysław Strzemiński’s book entitled "Teoria widzenia [Theory of Vision]", and attempt at reconstructing the relationship between the book and Marxism.

We will take a closer look at the structure of Theory, its language and key concepts. What sort of Marxism was the artist engaged in? And what sort of Marxism did Strzemiński distance himself from in his post-war writings? How did his works manifest such concepts as historical materialism, class struggle, determinism, dialectics, ideology, alienation? In what way did the artist make use of and play with the language of authorities and its Marxist slogans?
 

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