Subtitle:

Kraków – Troy : Stanisław Wyspiański’s imaginative geography ; Architektura w mieście, architektura dla miasta : przestrzeń publiczna w miastach ziem polskich w "długim" dziewiętnastym wieku ; Zabór austriacki

Contributor:

Łupienko, Aleksander (1980– ) : Editor ; Zabłocka-Kos, Agnieszka (1957– ) : Editor ; Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla

Publisher:

Instytut Historii PAN

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

p. 219-237 ; 24 cm ; Abstract in English

Type of object:

Book/Chapter

Abstract:

The article focuses on Stanisław Wyspiański’s geo-poetry and imaginative topography of the city of Kraków. The artist’s characteristic and creative thinking about the city and its vicinity was presented in relation to his epistolary, dramatic, poetic, and plastic works. Kraków, and especially Wawel, central to the city’s topography and history, appear here as Troy and Troas. The main thesis in the article is the identification of Wawel Hill with the Trojan Mount made by Wyspiański, and not with the Athenian Acropolis, which was regarded as obvious and certain in historical and artistic studies into the artist’s works made so far. The author, in reference mainly to literary studies on Wyspiański (among others by Tadeusz Sinko and Ewa Miodońska-Brookes) and his poetical imagination as well as works by the artist himself, re-evaluates the traditional and well-established reading of projected, architectural and urbanistic collaboration between Wyspiański and Władysław Ekielski in the form of the text “Acropolis. Wawel Reconstruction Project” published by the latter in the “Architekt” periodical in 1908, afterWyspiański’s death. What emerges from the interpretation presented here is the view of Krakówas the new Troy rather than the new Athens.

Start page:

219

End page:

237

Detailed Resource Type:

Chapter

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:140638 ; 978-83-65880-53-6

Source:

IH PAN, call no. II.14682 ; IH PAN, call no. II.14681 Podr. ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Access:

Open